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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in;">As you may know, organizations, businesses, and local or state government divisions
can become a Plant Conservation Alliance Non-Federal Cooperator. This month we'll be looking to our non-federal cooperators to select an original artwork submitted by grade-school aged children to use on a commemorative</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">
coin celebrating 25 years of PCA (see more below). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
link to the voting form will be sent directly to the primary contact person on file.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;">On behalf of the Chair of the PCA Nonfederal Committee, we encourage
you to update your contact information </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantconservationalliance.org%2Fuser&data=04%7C01%7Cmargaret_park%40fws.gov%7Cb7c8c04b917c4eeac43608da126a92c4%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637842546180613257%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=1p%2B0Sugc3aR3McF%2B%2FhDYrTm387N14yPvJJErCUkxKg0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/user. Click or tap if you trust this link."><b><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">here</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;">,
or i</span><strong style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; outline: 0px; line-height: normal;">f
your organization </strong></span><em style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">is not yet</span></b></em><strong style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">
a Cooperator</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">, the primary contact at your organization (usually a director or equivalent) can
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/apply"><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">apply
for Cooperator status by filling out this form</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">. We look forward to your participation!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p>
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ABOUT THE ART COMPETITION:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;"> In collaboration with the Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden, the Plant Conservation Alliance celebrates 25 years of advancing the conservation of native plants and their communities with a national art competition depicting iconic U.S. native plants.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;">This competition was launched as part of the
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background:aqua"><a href="https://fairchildgarden.org/science-and-education/learn/the-fairchild-challenge/-national-challenge/" title="https://fairchildgarden.org/science-and-education/learn/the-fairchild-challenge/-national-challenge/"><span style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">2021-2022
</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;">Fairchild Challenge</i></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">,
an award-winning, interdisciplinary, environmental science competition designed to engage students of diverse interests, abilities, talents, and backgrounds to explore the natural world. Representatives of the PCA Federal Committee selected
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"><i style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal;">regional
</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">champions from each of five regions (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West) and we will look to our PCA Non-Federal Cooperators
to select the national winner!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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