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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=595 style='width:446.25pt;background:white'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Having trouble viewing this email? <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=tnjebhdab&v=001ETD-u6eVKYvAErpxt6i598cjiox1NnwrSFHnNJ-sdWBEcl3WPsb01F6pRkYVOiizqqqZrUpODAIXOAqXvGUyIHwSJ0am1ao88Rb7X1zF053xyeMJOrpDuNmS_N_R6mUQT7awtEVSyXObJIrNBr9iuisgnbDfiB2-wJ3Gu6TvHJ386gxFNv9MvxBqzcciA_G4iYwr5edAHks%3D" target="_blank">Click here </a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#CCCC99'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:#CCCC99'><tr><td width="49%" style='width:49.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td width="2%" style='width:2.0%;padding:15.0pt 0in 22.5pt 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white;align:center'><tr><td width=600 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK1"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=600 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.xerces.org/imagesforcc/milkweed.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td width=371 valign=top style='width:278.25pt;padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK2"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E67803'>FREE CALIFORNIA MILKWEED SEED AVAILABLE NOW <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK15"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E67803'>Guide to California's native milkweeds also available <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;display:table' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK3"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Contact: </span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Brianna Borders, Plant Ecologist, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, (855) 232-6639 or <a href="mailto:brianna@xerces.org" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>brianna@xerces.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK4"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is pleased to announce the first results from our milkweed seed increase program: a new source of native California milkweed seed for use in large-scale restoration projects across the Central Valley -- and we have several pounds of this seed to give away!<br><br>Working with the Xerces Society, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-KpIIMoyb852Om0u04qKj2Wa_2GCKqNgsWb_JBJwqoD1ewKsyA3SKMOE7VR9TGcS1ZMMnVhHa7BchO3I5OBp6KC-L_xhD0OaK-cogZMronyQPw==" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>Hedgerow Farms</span></b></a> of Winters, California, produced 70 pounds of narrow-leaved milkweed (<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Asclepias fascicularis</span></em>) seed during the 2010 growing season. Thanks to this success, the Xerces Society is offering seed, free of charge, to agencies, land managers, and conservation groups working on native plant, pollinator, or monarch butterfly conservation projects in California's Central Valley (see additional details below). To support the seed increase work in California, we have developed a guide to the state's native milkweeds (available for download below). <br><br>We continue to work with Hedgerow Farms to establish seed production fields for additional California milkweed species, and have similar efforts underway in other critical regions of the monarch's breeding range. To read more about Xerces' strategies for increasing the availability of native milkweed seed and using milkweeds in pollinator habitat restoration efforts <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-KoQB_IMvCm3xFqfT8KiM54SFUsvW7tdjTBiGHeNza8Yadt0UJaZ-09rZm4xJMtjShhsNwzj0fMXRa7mA41KM7OVADOGqEwP7RdLYwBFjboNYbU_jrkB_Eg8" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>click here</span></b></a> or read <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-Kp2YVBIRnVi-Xjrx3Bnskr1_sfC4Jt4dkIwGko7Wx408fRnn_Ai03-Yh9kK0VRzBHPr2GNt_wmq56pZKWc7iVdhawjglBPC-BuCmixFg36OS-Nlt8Xc5EjwJ3oM1LFK0eJWqek1sXWsef89DYWyfU8TR9ZsNCs9Cn1FLT4jMcfl74W5ZZKjgi0XHb4z2S2m_Jo=" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>this fact sheet</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK5"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Free Native Milkweed Seed!</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>For a limited time, the Xerces Society is offering narrow-leaved milkweed seed (sourced from Yolo County) to agencies, land managers, and conservation organizations for use in restoration and re-vegetation efforts in central California. Please note that we will not provide seed to commercial seed producers or for the purpose of rearing butterflies in captivity. To request seed (minimum quantities of 1/4 pound), please contact Brianna Borders, Plant Ecologist, at (855) 232-6639 or <a href="mailto:brianna@xerces.org" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>brianna@xerces.org</span></a>. The seed is available free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis. <br><br>Narrow-leaved milkweed is a perennial wildflower that grows in dry to moist soils in open, sunny areas. It is the most widespread milkweed species in California, growing in every region of the state except the Sonoran Desert and the upper montane, subalpine, and alpine zones of the Sierra Nevada. The species flowers from May to October. <br><br>It is too late to plant milkweed seed this spring. We recommend planting it after the first fall rains, once the soil is moist. Seed planted in the fall will not germinate until the following spring. For successful establishment, it will be important to keep the planted area free of competition from weeds. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;display:table' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK7"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Central Valley Pollinator Conservation Seed Mix</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The Xerces Society and Hedgerow Farms are also selling a native seed mix designed to provide foraging and nesting resources for pollinators in California's Central Valley. The mix contains a variety of source-identified native wildflowers and bunch grasses, including a range of species that will provide bloom throughout the entire growing season. <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-KqU1XXXODk3evv5SZp_dVFu7zH9VdMRWefCzd2gKmQswQMY0hhyYto2J3QNmDBCYPhLSgEiCRozzYEDKzKJaaxGHifpLoLV2wYNrU_u_YuPxJ49yoQS7ZFq" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>Read more about the seed mix or place an order</span></b></a>. The seed mix can also be purchased directly from <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-Kq2aBd2qbeFqQgUtx8m3rBMXcn3gtS6JYQlHzFj2P6cKz8fkhdQQYBfCDS7KNdPs-rahtMal2F1PXwN1YMhT4V-KR2qlMCpyV6NXfTVUy6O6g==" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>Hedgerow Farms</span></b></a>, (530) 662-6847.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;display:table' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK19"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>New Guide to Native Milkweeds of California</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>To support these monarch habitat restoration opportunities, we are pleased to offer a new <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=tnjebhdab&et=1105478910690&s=4799&e=001Vb24NjX2-KpsgNt9A8S984a2Ff0EsjyxTCwUUlNgW3mwG5ZIlf947Pm9MjmQ3yd4zTlFDcmiyV8_vgq0Rf0b9JEBgbR6Tl46y2lnTIG6qZuBc4EUMB3LJaCPmS3RZzpiyTJVRQmdqvULkC9v1_IE6-Pqd92rYYEedHaS8ZXiEWkHaSJmDyfFqRJiSjTwFp0MhtAgGDVYjUmYPYtVvv0hYw==" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:#E67803;text-decoration:none'>guide to the native milkweeds of California</span></b></a>. The guide provides an overview of common milkweeds occurring in the state, distribution maps, photos, and general habitat requirements. Because milkweeds are a highly valuable nectar source for many pollinators, including native bees, managed honey bees, and hummingbirds, this guide is a must-have for anyone working on pollinator conservation projects in California. The California guide was developed with support from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Additional guides to the native milkweeds of other states, as well as habitat restoration guidelines, will be available soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK17"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E67803'>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br>This work is made possible with the generous support of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Monarch Joint Venture, the Hind Foundation, Hedgerow Farms, and Xerces Society members. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td><td width=229 valign=top style='width:171.75pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK8"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 1.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>1971-2011: Forty Years of Conservation<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'>The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. 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