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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Please join us for this week’s presentation</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">Perin McNelis</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">A Case for Expanded Production of Farmed Native Seed to Fill Growing Regional Seed Needs for Landscape Scale Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN) is a 501c3 based in Patagonia, AZ, that is dedicated to ecological restoration in the US/Mexico Borderlands.The Native Plant Program at BRN has steadily expanded its wild seed
collection and seed banking efforts over the last seven years to supply genetically appropriate seed stock for regional revegetation projects. However, as the southwestern United States has become increasingly vulnerable to numerous climate change related
impacts, there is an urgent and growing need for larger quantities of plant materials with local genotypes for landscape scale restoration that has proven difficult and expensive to meet with wild seed collection. Non-mechanized wild seed collection has proven
to have limitations related to unpredictable weather conditions that affect seed set and harvestability, and it is very expensive for a relatively small quantity of seed compared to the amount needed for effective revegetation. Furthermore, collecting wild
seed may put added pressure on wild populations already facing numerous challenges. BRN has begun to expand an experimental seed increase plot over the last couple of years with success and seeks to further expand farmed native seed production with the existing
infrastructure of active nursery and greenhouse facilities as well as access to a large amount of arable acreage. In this presentation, Native Seed Program Manager, Perin McNelis, will outline the pros and cons of wild seed collection versus farmed native
seed production and discuss the successes and expansion objectives of BRN’s seed production work in order to meet regional seed goals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Perin McNelis</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">is the Native Plant Program Manager at Borderlands Restoration Network,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C00000">Thursday,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>4/13, 12 noon</b>, UA Herbarium (Herring Hall).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">As always, feel free to bring
your lunch if you are comfortable doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We will also live-stream the event; if you would like to participate by zoom, please join us here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88651466335" title="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88651466335">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88651466335</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">For our full schedule, please visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks" title="https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks">this
page</a><span style="color:black">, and please feel free to contact us about any aspect of plant biodiversity! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:herbarium@cals.arizona.edu" title="mailto:herbarium@cals.arizona.edu"><span style="color:#0078D4">herbarium@cals.arizona.edu</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Shelley McMahon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Associate Professor of Practice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">School of Plant Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">UA Herbarium</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Faculty Fellow, Graduate College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#AA0620">University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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