[RWG] NEWS: Federal Agency Leaders Meet to Celebrate 20 Years of Native Plant Conservation and Renew MOU Commitment

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2014/June/nr_06_30_2014.html

June 30, 2014
Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hosts the
2014 Seed Conference to celebrate 20 years of public-private partnerships
for native plant conservation.  The Conference brings together 12 federal
agencies to renew a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that continues the
work of the Federal Native Plant Conservation Committee of the Plant
Conservation Alliance (PCA) and its cooperators in State government and
non-government organizations.  The PCA is a public-private partnership of
governments and non-government organizations that share the same goal of
protecting native plants by ensuring that native plant populations and
their communities are maintained, enhanced, and restored.

See the link above for the full press release text. You can view some
photos from the day on PCA's Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.662030037207585.1073741826.128655947211666.
A video by NatureServe about PCA and the event can be found here:
http://www.natureserve.org/news-events/news/video-partnership-restore-americas-native-plants

If your organization, state/local government agency or business is not
already a Plant Conservation Alliance Cooperator, the appropriate person in
your organization can fill out an online form requesting Cooperator status
at http://www.plantconservationalliance.org. If your organization is a
Cooperator, you can sign up for an account on the same website to keep
updated on the activities of the Non-Federal Cooperator Committee. Please
note that individual website accounts must be linked to a current PCA
Cooperator organization.

Federal agencies interested in joining the PCA Federal Committee by signing
the PCA MOU should contact Olivia Kwong (okwong at blm.gov).
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