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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Do you use native plants to combat invasive species?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black">Invasive species pose one of the greatest threats to functioning ecosystems across the USA. Land managers need a strategy to restore and rehabilitate native plant
communities that are resistant and resilient to nonnative plant introduction and spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">The <a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/program_natural%20resources_seed%20strategy_quick%20link_seed%20stregy.pdf">
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration</span></a><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (National Seed Strategy)</span>, developed by the Plant Conservation
Alliance (PCA) Federal Committee in collaboration with the nonfederal partners, <span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
provides a coordinated approach to stabilize, rehabilitate, and restore public and private lands in response to nonnative plant invasions. Efforts to improve our Nation’s plant supply needs are grouped into four
</span>main areas: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Identifying and quantifying seed needs<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Undertaking research and improving technologies for seed production and use
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Developing tools for land managers<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Ensuring good communications.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">This month the PCA Federal Committee launched a call for information on work undertaken from 2015 to 2020 that addresses
or highlights our native plant materials and restoration needs. This will inform progress under the National Seed Strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Please use the link below to share information on your efforts to respond to invasive species that threaten ecosystem services
in the U.S.</span><span style="color:black"> by increasing the availability and use of locally adapted plant species.
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Respondents do not need to be well-versed in the National Seed Strategy to report progress -- the reporting form will walk you through it. Any basic or applied research that aims to improve ecological restoration
in the United States or to develop tools or resources that assist land managers in making informed habitat decisions <i>counts</i>.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Please also consider sharing this email with your federal colleagues and federal partners to submit information on any relevant projects conducted, funded, or supported in any way,
<u>by the September 1 deadline</u>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Report your invasive species projects through the
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/national-seed-strategy-report"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">National Seed Strategy reporting portal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amanda (Mandie) Carr</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Coordinator of Botanical <span style="background:white">Communication
and</span> Outreach</span></i><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bureau of Land Management (Contractor)</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">1387 S Vinnell Way<span style="background:white"> | </span>Boise, ID 83709<br>
Tel (208) 373-4087</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Pronouns: she/her/hers</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-seed-and-plant-material-development" target="_blank" title="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-seed-and-plant-material-development"><span style="color:#0C64C0">Native
Plant Material Development</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0C64C0">National
Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0066CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0C64C0">Plant
Conservation Alliance</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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