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<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*FIRE-TIES THAT BIND: THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF CONTROLLED BURNING IN THE SOUTHLAND & THE REKINDLING
OF GLOBAL FIRE CULTURE</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Webinar date/time: TODAY September 22, 2020; 1:00 pm ET</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Duration: 1 hour</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*What will you learn?</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All across North America, and beyond, people are gathering to Share the Flame. Resilient embers have been re-kindled, passionately nurtured in the deep-time crucible
of people and fire that has warmed our hearts and hearths for scores of thousands of millennia. Twenty-five years ago, the phenomenon of wildland fire-lighting in North America was barely flickering in scattered spots. Today, an intense, intergenerational, </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">pandisciplinary</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">pyronexus</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> forged
in the natural and multicultural heritage of people embedded in fire-loving landscapes is being restored and is thriving in a wide and deeply-rooting range of programs, policies and on-the-ground practices. Lighting up the landscape, under prescription, is
an accelerating, transcontinental, cultural phenomenon centering on the shared pride of people connected to special places through a uniquely satisfying, primordial practice. Fire-lighting binds people together as it promotes and gives resilience to ecological
integrity, economic health and public safety. Fire-wonder is increasingly expressed through prescribed fire tales, poems and paintings, and it resonates in rituals, ceremonies, </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">pyrotourism</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and
other gatherings. Our cultural spot fires have pulled together, and they are creating their own winds and fuels. The fire-lighting </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">pyroparadigm</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> of
North America — once nearly extinguished by decades of pathological, command-and-control, anti-fire propaganda, pogroms and policy — has been taken back, and we’ll let no one, ever again, wrest it away. Following the presentation there will be time for audience
Q/A with the speaker.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Presenter:</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Johnny Stowe, South Carolina DNR</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Details:</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registration and more information: </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8wX3HUi_R86jZWP0Jgu_4g" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8wX3HUi_R86jZWP0Jgu_4g</span></span></a></span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registration is <u>required</u></span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Webinar presented by Southern Fire Exchange (SFE)</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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