<div dir="ltr"><div>See information below about the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Conservation Symposium. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">--<br>Lynn C. Sweet, PhD </span></div><div><font color="#999999">Asst. Research Ecologist & Principal Investigator</font></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Denise Knapp</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dknapp@sbbotanicgarden.org">dknapp@sbbotanicgarden.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM<br>Subject: Conservation Symposium February 8th: Seeds of Change<br>To: <a href="mailto:lynn.sweet@ucr.edu">lynn.sweet@ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lynn.sweet@ucr.edu">lynn.sweet@ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Denise Knapp <<a href="mailto:dknapp@sbbotanicgarden.org">dknapp@sbbotanicgarden.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg2300417673483607007">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c">Dear </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lynn</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c">,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Happy New Year! I hope you and your family are doing well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I thought you may be interested in</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c"> our annual conservation symposium on February 8</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c">This year the theme is Seeds of Change: Conservation Through Diversity. It is free to attend online, and very affordable to attend in person for students ($15) and others ($40). We have another great lineup
of speakers this year, including 2025 Pritzlaff Conservation Award recipient Peggy Olwell (a conservation powerhouse).
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We’ll be recording the event again this year and putting on our YouTube channel too, if you can’t make it or know any professors who could use a few good conservation biology resources.
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We’ll be outlining how diverse, regionally-adapted seed collections are essential to successful habitat restoration and the preservation of rare species. Our speakers will explain why maintaining genetic diversity in seed collections
is key to resilient ecosystems, and talk about how across the nation, movements like Seeds of Success, Seed LA, and the Northeast Seed Network are leading the charge in collecting, growing, and storing native plant seeds. You’ll hear directly from growers
and conservationists who are at the forefront of these efforts. They’ll share their experiences and insights on what it takes to build and maintain robust seed banks and how these efforts are shaping national and regional native plant seed strategies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c">For more information or to register to attend in person or virtually, visit
</span><a href="https://sbbotanicgarden.org/classes-events/12th-annual-santa-barbara-botanic-garden-conservation-symposium/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SBBotanicGarden.org/symposium-2025</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#3a3a3c"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hope to see you there! Please share, too :)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Denise<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3b3b3d">Director of Conservation & Research</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3b3b3d">Santa Barbara Botanic Garden</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3b3b3d">Santa Barbara, CA 93105</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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