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<span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please register for our next Plant Conservation Alliance general meeting to be held remotely on Wednesday, May 13, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">What will you learn?</span></p>
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<span>the</span> PCA is pleased to welcome </span><a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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County, Washington</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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For some plants, poaching is a leading threat to their survival. Venus flytraps are one such species—they are endemic only to one small region on the planet and serve as easy cash for poachers selling to collectors or makers of fake health tonics. But, legal
protections for plants are piecemeal, and the practical difficulties of enforcing them often fail to create suitable deterrence for would-be poachers. Moreover, those cases that are enforced often target low-level poachers, furthering financial inequities
that lead some of them to poach in the first place. This presentation proposes a road map, using the Venus flytrap as a case study, for both more equitable distributions of punishment and for stronger protections for plants. We will go over some examples of
cases that used existing state laws and the Lacey Act to target illegal distributers of poached plants, and end with some possible ways to use that method for the Venus flytrap.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Katrina Outland became a lawyer as a second career after nearly a decade as a fisheries biologist with the Washington
State Department of Fish & Wildlife and as a commercial fishing observer in Alaska for NOAA Fisheries. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2018 with a focus on environmental law and is particularly interested in environmental crimes.
Since then, she has been a deputy prosecutor in Skagit County, Washington where she handles the mental health commitment hearings, infractions, and some criminal misdemeanors. Her paper on plant poaching<i>, Trapped in the Goddess's Mousetrap: Equitable Solutions
for Poverty Poaching of Venus Flytraps</i>, was published in the Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy and is available at:
</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjelp/vol8/iss2/5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;color:#0563C1">https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjelp/vol8/iss2/5</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<i>- learn about and get engaged in <span>the</span> Plant Conservation Alliance</i></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black"></span></p>
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<i>– a topical presentation to explore any of <span>the</span> six focal areas identified in
<span>the</span> </i></span><span style="font-family:
"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/plants/strategy.htm" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#0563C1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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National Framework for Progress</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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conservation; education; restoration; research and development; sustainability; and information sharing</span></i><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black"></span></p>
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<i>- all participants are encouraged to share information on national native plant events and activities</i></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">See future and previous PCA webinars at:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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<a href="https://www.plantconservationalliance.org/meetings">https://www.plantconservationalliance.org/meetings</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">—This meeting is brought to you by the Plant Conservation Alliance Speaker Organizing Team—</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
font-variant:small-caps">Patricia De Angelis</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"> / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Anne Frances</span> / NatureServe <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">
Gary Krupnick</span> / Smithsonian Institution <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">
Ray Mims</span> / U.S. Botanic Garden <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Krissa Skogen</span> / Chicago Botanic Garden <>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Michelle Turton</span> / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <> with special thanks to past members of the planning team,
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Megan Haidet</span> / USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service and
<span style="font-variant:
small-caps">Leah Prescott</span> / Chicago Botanic Garden.</span></p>
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