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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear PCA Cooperators,</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you did not get an email yet inviting you to vote. Check
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/user" title="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/user"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">here
</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to update your information. More information about the Fairchild Challenge art contest is in the email trail below.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; 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="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
coin celebrating 25 years of PCA (see more below). </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><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" data-auth="NotApplicable" 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" data-auth="NotApplicable"><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="color:black"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></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/" data-auth="NotApplicable" 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"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span></p>
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