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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations to you all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mark<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>******************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Mark S. Thorne, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>State Range Extension Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Kamuela Extension Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>67-5189 Kamamalu Road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Kamuela, HI 96743<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Phone: (808)887-6183<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Fax: (808)887-6182<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:thornem@hawaii.edu"><span style='color:blue'>thornem@hawaii.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Tropical Pasture and Livestock Managment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif'><a href="http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ctahr/tpalm/index.html"><span style='color:blue'>http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ctahr/tpalm/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Hawaii Rangelands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://globalrangelands.org/state/hawaii"><span style='color:blue'>https://globalrangelands.org/state/hawaii</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Cooperative Extension Service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/site/Extprograms.aspx"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/site/Extprograms.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hnfas/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hnfas/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>University of Hawaii at Manoa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.hawaii.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>"I am not influenced by the expectation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>of promotion or pecuniary reward. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>I wish to be useful, and in every kind <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>of service necessary for the public good, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>become honorable by being necessary." --- Nathan Hale<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:#1F497D'>******************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Rangelands <rangelands-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kenyon, Jeremy (jkenyon@uidaho.edu)<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 2, 2018 6:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> rangelands@list.cals.arizona.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [RangelandsPartnership] NRCS CIG Award Announcement<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Rangeland Partnership Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>During this year’s annual meeting, you heard from Dr. Jason Karl (Idaho) about a proposal to the USDA NRCS’s Conservation Innovation Grant program entitled: “A National Grazingland Information System: Expanding GlobalRangelands.org Through a Grazingland Thesaurus and Mobile Content Access”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We’re happy to say that the project was funded just last week!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1411217">https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1411217</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A number of you were involved in the discussions and planning – so thank you to all involved for your efforts!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>This project will provide some funding for the RP, and allow us to pursue innovative new enhancements – a national grazinglands vocabulary/ontology, a grazing-centric document collection, and mobile-oriented access to these resources – to our collective work at GlobalRangelands.org. The core project teams are at Idaho and Arizona, but we’ll be engaging a number of RP members for help and expertise as the project progresses. I’ve attached the project “factsheet” and proposal narrative to provide more details about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Please let me, Jason (<a href="mailto:jkarl@uidaho.edu">jkarl@uidaho.edu</a>), Jeanne Pfander (<a href="mailto:jpfander@email.arizona.edu">jpfander@email.arizona.edu</a>), or George Ruyle (<a href="mailto:gruyle@cals.arizona.edu">gruyle@cals.arizona.edu</a>) know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hope your summer is going well!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>--------------------</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Jeremy Kenyon<br>Research Librarian, University of Idaho Library</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Data Steward, NW/SW/PI Climate Adaptation Science Centers</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Office: 208.885.7955 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Mobile: 812.340.3036</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:jkenyon@uidaho.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>jkenyon@uidaho.edu</span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>