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Hello and Happy New Year! </div>
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As you know, we are wrapping up the 2023 collection season and looking forward to beginning 2024! Here are a few quick notes and reminders as we transition collection years:</div>
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<b>Final 2023 Data Editing deadlines</b></div>
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you have been instructed to make in either the geoplatform groups or the SOS data portal will need to be done by the end of the weekend.
</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Anything submitted or
changed to the 2023 forms after Sunday, Jan 21 time will not be changed in the historic dataset or in the 2024 GPLAT groups (for both scouting and collection records).<br>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>2023 Seeds, Vouchers, and Reporting</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">If you have any lingering end of year reporting materials (photos, forms, permits, annual reports) that you have not yet sent to your Agency Coordinator, do so ASAP!!</span></div>
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sent to the appropriate cleaning facility. If there are any lingering collections, please notify Sarah Hill ASAP and she will provide further instruction. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>2024 Collectors Call picks up Feb 6th, 10am MT </b></span></div>
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The invite for the 2024 collector call will go out this week, so keep an eye out for that! </div>
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February call will go over some 2024 program changes, geoplatform access, and 2024 training opportunities, so make sure to attend! </div>
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collector calls. If that information has not been provided yet, <b>please have anyone who will need access to the monthly call (all active collectors and program support people) fill out this form:</b>
<a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=pftQAjhAXkuK4lsLQZkvU0BNZz9BFqBFhx5lbfZ1E9BURExIQ0Q3WUZHTVdVSllJUlNHNFc1UU9RNy4u" id="LPlnk500929" class="OWAAutoLink">
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We will be getting crews signed up this season through forms again. Please feel free to start distributing this form:
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https://forms.office.com/r/uZa3f693Wx</a>. The workflow for the beginning of the season is a little different than last year, as everyone added must successfully create a test point before being added to their regional group. We hope this sets everyone off
on the right foot for data collection, and leads to less corrections needing to be made throughout the season. Here is the proposed workflow, please reach out to Kristy Snyder, ksnyder@blm.gov with any questions. </div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">For the seeds,</span></p>
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of Success National Curator<br>
Bureau of Land Management - contractor</span></p>
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working from home - contact me for my cell #</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" id="OWA191497db-6992-2ff6-9a72-1794e919d85a" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" style="margin: 0px;">Seeds
of Success</a></span></p>
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Seed Strategy</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy/pca" target="_blank" id="OWA7e8f1996-999a-5ed3-e9ee-6687f682da55" class="ContentPasted0 OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy/pca. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px;">Plant
Conservation Alliance</a></span></p>
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to the PCA and SOS listservs</a></span></p>
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I list my pronouns</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><br>
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traditional and contemporary lands of the Nuwe/Nume (Paiute, Shoshone, Bannock) people who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>.</i></span></div>
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