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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing>SOS Monthly Collectors’ Call<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>July 10, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There were 27 participants on the call.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Updates/Reminders from the National Office:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>Please use the updated data sheet; it was revised in March 2012 and is available on the SOS website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>Please send your seed data to Megan throughout the year. We’d like to start entering data gradually throughout the year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>Shipping details:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Multiple collections may be shipped in a single box.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Collection reference number should be marked on the shipping boxed and on individual seed bags.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>Do not staple field data sheets to the bags. You can send them in a stack, clipped together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>If there are collections coming in multiple boxes, please call Bend ahead to let .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Bend Seed Extractory:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>Packaging and in house testing for last year’s collections will be finished in the next 10 days.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>They are already beginning to process 2012 collections.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>National Training Center:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in'>2013 Seed Collection for Conservation and Restoration Course will be held in Boise, ID, May 14-16, plus an optional field trip on the 17<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>General consensus from the field is that is it going to be a difficult year for seed collection due to drought conditions in most of the west.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Megan Haidet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seeds of Success<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>National Collection Curator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>202-912-7233<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>