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<p>The US Fish and Wildlife Service and Chicago Botanic Garden are partnering to build a Midwestern Native Seed Network. Our first official meeting will be a symposium at the 2024 Society for Ecological Restoration's Midwest Great Lakes Annual Meeting in Hammond,
Indiana on May 17 (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bUpS7f3RDSXI7XmE8HXx7OV9yQ3Ik6IG/view?usp=sharing">more details here</a>). We hope many of you will be able to join us in person! But if not, we will be scheduling more meetings (virtual and in-person)
to continue the conversation and help bring people together later this year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If you’re interested in learning more about this work, please <a href="https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/dCIlObM/MidwestNativeSeedNetwork">
sign up here</a>. Once you sign up you will be added to our email distribution list, where we will share information about the May symposium as well as follow-up meetings and planning.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Andrea T. Kramer, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Senior Director, Restoration Ecology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">David Byron Smith Family Curator of Natural Areas<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Conservation Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Chicago Botanic Garden
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">1000 Lake Cook Road | Glencoe, IL 60022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Tel (847) 835-6971<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#9FC938">We cultivate the power of plants to sustain and enrich life<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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