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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:normal'>2008
NAPPC Pollinator Advocate Award and NAPPC/NACD Farmer-rancher Pollinator
Conservation Award </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Nominations BOTH DUE Sept. 19.</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:normal'>Due to
confusion between the two different awards, the deadline for nomination
submission for both the </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>(1) NAPPC Pollinator Advocate Award</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:normal'> and </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>(2) the NAPPC/NACD Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:normal'> has been extended to </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Friday, September 19<sup>th</sup></span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:normal'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:normal'>More
information about the awards are attached. Previous award winners are
listed at</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></b></strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'><a href="http://www.pollinator.org/awards.htm"><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal'>http://www.pollinator.org/awards.htm</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font></b><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:normal'>.</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>________________________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We are pleased to invite you to submit nominations for the
recipients of the</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>2008 North American Pollinator Protection
Campaign (NAPPC) Pollinator Advocate Award<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The attached nomination
form is sent for your convenience. You may nominate as many people as you
wish from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Feel free to
distribute this solicitation widely to your contacts.</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This award recognizes individuals and/or
organizations which have contributed significantly to pollinator species
protection and conservation, and to public education which results in increased
awareness of the importance of pollination. NAPPC, through its
recognition and appreciation of these individuals and organizations, encourages
their activity and hopes to catalyze future actions on behalf of
pollinators. All activities that contribute significantly toward
pollinator conservation will be considered, including but not limited to on the
ground projects, educational programs, development of policies and
partnerships, research on pollinators, or management activities that promote
pollinators.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>NAPPC partners are not eligible.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>________________________________________________________________________________</span></font></i></em><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The NAPPC/NACD<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<h2 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:4.0in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation
Award</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>. For the past three years this award has recognized
an individual or family in the farm and ranch community in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> who has
contributed significantly to pollinator species protection and conservation on
working and wild lands. NAPPC and NACD through their recognition and
appreciation of these individuals and organizations encourage their
conservation stewardship and hope to catalyze future actions on behalf of
pollinators through public recognition of the award winner. In selecting
the winner, all activities that contribute significantly toward pollinator
conservation will be considered, including but not limited to,
“on-the-ground” pollinator conservation best management practices,
development of conservation partnerships and demonstration projects that
promote pollinator awareness and conservation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=Heading2Char><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>What is NAPPC?</span></font></b></span><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The North
American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) has a nine year history of
bringing together scientists, land managers, agribusiness, conservation
NGO’s and private industry in a public-private collaboration working on
tri-national initiatives to highlight the importance and to provide security
for North American pollinators. NAPPC, facilitated by the Pollinator
Partnership (P2), represents the North American collaborative effort to
increase knowledge, raise awareness, investigate best practices and build
cooperative ventures to ensure the stability and sustainability of pollinators
and flowering plants for food, forests, flowers and farms.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Pollinating species are influential in the production of an
estimated $40 billion in products in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> alone. Eighty
percent of the food plant species worldwide depend on pollination by animals,
almost all of which are insects. Estimates of the impact of pollinators
on our food supply range as high as one out of every three mouthfuls of food we
eat, and of the beverages we drink.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>More than half of the world's diet of fats and oils comes
from oilseed crops, many of which are pollinated by animals, including cotton,
oil palm, canola and sunflowers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:4.0in'><b><u><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<h2><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>What is NACD?
</span></font></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'>The
National Association of Conservation Districts is the nonprofit organization
that represents the nation's 3,000 conservation districts and 17,000 men and
women who serve on their governing boards. Conservation districts are local
units of government established under state law to carry out natural resource
management programs at the local level. Districts work with more than 2.5
million cooperating landowners and operators to help them manage and protect
land and water resources on nearly 98 percent of the private lands in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
As the national voice for all conservation districts, NACD supports voluntary,
incentive-driven natural resource conservation programs that benefit all
citizens. The association's philosophy is that conservation decisions
should be made by local people with technical and funding assistance from
federal, state and local governments and the private sector. The association's
programs and activities aim to advance the resource conservation cause of local
districts and the millions of cooperating landowners and land managers they
serve. </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h2>
<h2><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<h2><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Importance of the
NAPPC/NACD Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p class=MsoBodyText3><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
award is a celebration of a growing movement in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> agriculture to integrate
positive conservation efforts into farm and ranch operations. By
acknowledging the critical and yet often invisible contributions of bees, butterflies,
bats, birds, beetle and other animals, the award recipient is leading by
example in helping to pave the way for a healthy and sustainable conservation
movement. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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