From plant at plantconservation.org Mon Jul 12 10:04:54 2010 From: plant at plantconservation.org (Olivia Kwong) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:04:54 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [RWG] PCA: Bimonthly Meeting Agenda for July 14, 2010 (Arlington, VA) Message-ID: Anyone that is interested is invited to come to the meeting. This message has been cross-posted to all the PCA discussion lists. Olivia Kwong SER/PCA http://www.nps.gov/plants/ The Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) Bi-Monthly Meeting is an open forum for anyone interested or working in plant conservation. The meeting is held every other month in the Washington DC metropolitan area. There is roundtable for attendees to share relevant events, as well as updates from each of the PCA working groups and committees. Regular attendees include representatives from the PCA Federal agencies and from Cooperating organizations; however anyone is welcome to attend this meeting. Past meeting summaries and selected presentations are available at http://www.nps.gov/plants/meetings/bimonthly/index.htm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLANT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:30 - 11:30 AM LOCATION: Conference Room at NatureServe 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor Arlington, VA 22209 (Take the Orange or Blue Line to Rosslyn Station. Go to 1101 Wilson Blvd. Enter through the main entrance (the Post Office will be to the right inside) and take the elevators up one level to the Mall or U2 level. Then exit the elevator and find another set of elevators (around the corner) that goes up to the 15th floor NatureServe reception desk.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA 9:30 Introductions 9:35 Announcements/Communications 9:55 Updates on Activities - Alien Plant Working Group - Medicinal Plant Working Group - Native Plant Materials Development Working Group - Public Outreach Working Group - Restoration Working Group - NFWF - MOU - NGO Committee 10:45 Rob Fiegener (Institute for Applied Ecology) - Overview of Native Seed Network & Recap of the 2010 National Native Seed Conference 11:25 Closing Remarks 11:30 Adjourn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING COMMITTEE MEETINGS [2nd Wednesday of alternate months] - Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 9:30-11:30 AM TBD NatureServe Headquarters, Arlington, VA - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:30-11:30 AM TBD NatureServe Headquarters, Arlington, VA