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Below you will find a summary of the May 2024 SOS collectors call. Let me know if you have any questions!</div>
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<b><u>National Coordinating Office Announcements</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Next SOS Virtual Training: June 5/6 </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">If you have a need to train additional people in July/August, Contact Sarah Hill ASAP to discuss training options </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">If you have already attended a training, you should have been sent an email with a link to training recordings and additional
resources. Please check your inbox for an email from Sarah Hill, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); line-height: 19.425px;"><a href="mailto:sehill@blm.gov" target="_blank" id="OWAac780dcf-f599-3752-b2ff-853ec4597565" class="Hyperlink SCXW131345965 BCX0 OWAAutoLink" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">sehill@blm.gov</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">.
If you did not receive these resources let Sarah know. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Updated protocol and associated documents are online! Make sure the protocol version you are using is dated March 2024. If not,
go to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); line-height: 19.425px;"><a href="http://www.blm.org/sos" target="_blank" id="OWA7ebc5ec9-b135-8778-4163-c4fbe3b8a732" class="Hyperlink SCXW131345965 BCX0 OWAAutoLink" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">www.blm.org/sos</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">
to download the most recent version. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Agency Coordinator list - shows which team is under which agency coordinator </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Differences between agencies – table that outlines slight variations in the SOS process between agencies. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Updated paper data sheets and paper scouting form </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Example annual report</span><span style="font-family: WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;"> <br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Make sure to change for different agencies</span><span style="font-family: WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;"> <br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">If you don’t know who your regional herbaria is, look in the protocol. Reach out to them at the beginning of the season to see
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Cleaning facilities – still TBD. Do not ship until you are sure! </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">All Interagency/BIL-BAR: Bend Seed Extractory </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">All USFWS and NPS BIL-ER: Dorena Genetics Resource Center </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">BLM/NPS: Split between Dorena and Bend, Facility assignments TBD </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Sarah will announce on collector call</span><span style="font-family: WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;"> <br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Reminder about guidance on a few species for cleaning/collecting on the SOS website </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;"><b>A request was made to gather information on tools/techniques that are useful for certain species, genera, or seed types.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Remember to go to the getting started page to sign up for geoplatform access. Once you have filled out the registration form
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">Several requests have come in for more detailed private landowner data. Because landowner information changes frequently, we
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;">To view federal, stake, and county landowners in your field maps, turn on the layer group called “Location Calculation Layers”,
and nested under that you turn on a specific layer called [YOUR REGION]LandManagementAgency.</span><span style="font-family: WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px;"> <br>
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<i>I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Nuwe/Nume (Paiute, Shoshone, Bannock) people, as well as other indigenous tribes who traveled through the area known as Idaho who have stewarded
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