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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The general message “plants for people and people for plants” works for outreach...as I noted to folks earlier plants touch our lives so many ways, that is what
folks need to appreciate. I think the thing to refine here is the right message in the right audience. We haven’t been good at that generally as botanists and are paying the price.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Still, remember “plant blindness” is a physiologically limited condition of humans, as Jim Wandersee demonstrated. We don’t need to revile this described condition,
we need to work to expand our powers of observation and appreciation to counteract and correct for it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grund, Steve<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 13, 2019 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Prescott, Leah <lprescott@blm.gov>; native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PCA] ARTICLE: We do not want to “cure plant blindness” we want to grow plant love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sure. The “Plant Blindness” thing seems OK within the botanical community, and humorously catchy, but when it gets out to the general public, it will appear (or
perhaps already appears) as if we are looking down at the people not in our clique. Not a good way to reach out to people. “Growing plant love” (not sure that is actually proposed) might also be a put-off to some, being rather romantic, and would be labeled
“touchy-feely” by some. Awareness and appreciation might perhaps be more effective positive messages, but I am not coming up with a pithy slogan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> native-plants [<a href="mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org">mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Prescott, Leah<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 August 2019 11:35<br>
<b>To:</b> listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PCA] ARTICLE: We do not want to “cure plant blindness” we want to grow plant love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From: <i>Plants, People, Planet</i> New Phytologist Trust<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Sara Kuebbing, Rebecca S. Barak, Molly Bletz, Joan Dudney, Bonnie M. McGill, Mallika A. Nocco, Talia Young, Rebecca K. Tonietto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">July 18, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"We have a duty to conserve plants for the health of current and future generations. To do that, we, as a community of scientists, need to move plants from the background and into the foreground of people's hearts and minds. Effective movements
need a clear, unifying rallying cry. We have made a decision not to use “curing plant blindness” as ours. Instead, we would like to encourage an honest and inclusive discussion about the disenfranchising and exclusionary term 'plant blindness.'"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#0C343D">Leah Prescott</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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