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<b><span style="color:black">Collaborating to Conserve North America’s Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Utilized Plants<br>
at Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado September 17-19, 2024<br>
Look for symposium registration information in early 2024!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Please join us for a symposium to assess progress toward conserving North American crop wild relatives and wild utilized plants. We invite the unique perspectives of botanic gardens, Indigenous groups, land managers, researchers, breeders,
and seed and gene banks as we discuss future conservation priorities for this important group of plants.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">This symposium meeting is made possible through a partnership between Botanic Gardens Conservation International-US and the
</span><span style="color:#404040"><a href="https://www.usbg.gov/"><span style="color:#404040">United States Botanic Garden</span></a></span><span style="color:black">.<br>
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Interested in attending? Sign up to receive symposium notifications at: </span><a href="http://www.bgci.org/news-events/cwr2024/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">www.bgci.org/news-events/cwr2024/</span></b></a><b><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Abby Meyer (she/her) <b>|</b> 308.293.1782
<b>|</b> <a href="mailto:abby.meyer@bgci.org">abby.meyer@bgci.org</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens <b>|</b> Los Angeles, CA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#00B0F0">New BGCI GardenSearch:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#33CCFF">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">update your garden’s profile at <a href="https://gardensearch.bgci.org/">
https://gardensearch.bgci.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#CC0066">New BGCI PlantSearch</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">: update your garden’s living collection data at
<a href="https://plantsearch.bgci.org/">https://plantsearch.bgci.org/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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