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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">2023 North American Prairie Conference</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">June 26-29; Des Moines, Iowa</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">What will you learn? Join prairie experts, enthusiasts, professionals and more for America's oldest and most celebrated native grassland conference!<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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will be held in central Iowa at the Meadows Events & Conference Center at Prairie Meadows and will feature three keynote speakers and numerous concurrent sessions. Field trips are planned to fascinating prairies as well as a BBQ dinner.</span></font><o:p class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Laura Jackson, Director, University of Northern Iowa Tallgrass Prairie Center<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Eric Lee-Mäder, Co-Director, Pollinator Conservation, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Douglas Ladd, Former Director of Conservation, The Nature Conservancy in Missouri<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Preliminary Schedule</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">: http://www.northamericanprairie.org/schedule<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">4 day: $325 or $375 beginning June 9</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">1 day (either Monday, Tuesday (field trip day), Wednesday, or Thursday): $150 or $175 beginning June 9</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Student rate : 4 day - $200, 1 day - $60 *(students should have current enrollment in high school, a college
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>undergraduate program, or a graduate program, or have graduated from high school or college within the last year, since January 2022)</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Details & Registration:</span><span style="color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">
</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/north-american-prairie-conference-tickets-435743991007<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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