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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">introduced in </span><img width="400" height="533" align="right" style="width:4.1666in; height:5.5535in" src="https://ymlpmail2.net/imgz/09yp_BotanistplustraxClrCreek.jpg"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Senate by Sen. Maizie K.
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt">August 5, 2019</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">See end of this NPCC News for information on how to
<a href="#Speak_Out">SPEAK OUT FOR PLANTS AND SUPPORT THE BOTANY BILL</a>!</span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A; font-weight:normal">Senator Hirono Reintroduces Legislation to Protect Native Plant Species</span><span style="font-size:27.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A; font-weight:normal"></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and ten of her U.S. Senate colleagues introduced legislation that would promote native plant use, research, and protection.
The Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act would encourage federal land management agencies to hire botanists, establish a collaborative grant program to support efforts to keep rare plant species from becoming
endangered and help endangered plant species recover, and proactively encourage the use of native plants in projects on federal land when feasible.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“Hawaii is home to over one thousand native plant species, and nearly 90 percent of those are found nowhere else in the world. Without these plants, our communities and our ecosystems
face serious economic and ecological consequences,” Senator Hirono said. “This bill would provide federal, state, and local land management entities the tools and resources they need to further protect native plant species and ensure the wellbeing of these
plants for generations to come.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“As we work to address climate change and protect the planet, the study, preservation, and cultivation of native plants is an important part of that effort,” Senator Van Hollen said.
“By hiring the best and the brightest to serve in the federal government, encouraging their critical work, and incentivizing the use of more native plants, we can help protect our land and curb the harmful impacts of invasive species.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“Plants and plant science are important to our health, economy and wildlife, especially in Delaware,” Senator Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said.
“By protecting and restoring the First State’s native plants, we can create wildlife habitat, save water, and even protect coastal communities from the impacts of climate change. That’s why it’s critical that we support federal plant research and restoration
activities, both of which are often overlooked in our conversations about environmental protections and funding. I thank Senator Hirono for leading in this effort.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“In the Chesapeake Bay watershed, invasive aquatic plants are highly concerning, as they colonize quickly, outcompete native vegetation that provide crucial habitat, and degrade wetlands.
Dense pockets of species like the common reed also impede waterways and degrade boater experience,” Senator Cardin said. “Expanding our botanical knowledge is critical to the control of current invasive species and rapid response to newly discovered species.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“As a plant scientist working to conserve rare Hawaiian plants, securing funding for my work can be difficult. Increasing research capacity through competitive grants will help fund
the much-needed research to adequately conserve plant biodiversity. This bill seeks to overcome ‘plant blindness’ by raising awareness and increase funding for the conservation of plant species,” Dustin Wolkis, Seed Bank and Laboratory Manager, Department
of Science and Conservation, National Tropical Botanical Garden, said.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">“In today’s world, the need for using native plants to promote vibrant ecosystems which are drought resistant, wild fire resistant, and resilient has never been greater,” Debbie Edwards,
President of The Garden Club of America, said. “Measures such as Senator Hirono’s legislation will help move us in this direction and promote intelligent, cost-effective land management practices.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">The Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act would:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Establish a competitive grant program within the Department of the Interior (DOI) to states, territories, tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, local governments, and non-profit organizations
for projects that conserve and promote populations of rare plants that are close to becoming endangered and help endangered plant populations recover.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#6C605A; line-height:25.5pt">
<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Promote the hiring of botanists within the DOI and provide monetary incentives to attract and retain botanists through a student loan repayment program;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#6C605A; line-height:25.5pt">
<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instruct the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Defense to provide preference to native plant materials in land management projects and justify the use of non-native plant materials;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#6C605A; line-height:25.5pt">
<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Require that native plant materials receive preference and are subsequently used in surface transportation projects and federal building design;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#6C605A; line-height:25.5pt">
<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Promote interagency cooperation for various activities relating to native plants; and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#6C605A; line-height:25.5pt">
<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Direct the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to incorporate into existing activities native plant conservation.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">In addition to Senator Hirono, the Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act is also cosponsored by
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kamala Harris
(D-Calif.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.).</span></strong></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">The full text of the bill is available <a href="http://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.07.31_116th%20Senate%20Botany%20Bill_for%20introduction.pdf">here</a>. A one page summary
and section-by-section breakdown of the bill is available <a href="https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.07.23_116th%20Senate%20Botanical%20Sciences%20One-Pager.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.07.23_116th%20Senate%20Botanical%20Science%20Bill_Section-by-Section.pdf">here</a>.</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A"><a href="http://www.usa.gov/elected-officials"><span style="color:green">Contact your House and Senate representatives!</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A"></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:green">If they have not yet cosponsored the Botany Bill, ask them to.
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:green">If they have, please thank them!
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:green">For help with communicating with elected officials, to have your organization endorse the bill, talking points and more, see the
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A"><a href="https://botanybill.weebly.com/get-involved.html"><span style="color:green">GET INVOVED section of the Botany Bill Website</span></a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:green">.
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also includes a summary of the bill, the full bill text, ways to track its progress and MUCH MORE!</span></strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">Read <a href="https://plantsocieties.cnps.org/images/Native_Plant_Conservation_Campaign_Testimony_on_HR_1572_7.2019.pdf">Native Plant Conservation Campaign testimony on the Botany
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<strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">Photo: Monitoring off-road vehicle damage in rare plant habitat on federal lands, California
</span></strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#6C605A">(c) Emily Roberson</span></p>
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