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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m just passing this along!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peter Bryant [<a href="mailto:pjbryant@uci.edu">mailto:pjbryant@uci.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 10, 2013 4:32 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Upcoming Symposium (June 22) on Plants and their Pollinators: Interactions for a Healthy Planet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Friends (apologies for duplicate postings): I hope you can join us for this event! And if you can help us to publicize it by forwarding the following and the attached flier to whatever lists you may have access to, I would appreciate it! I have already sent it to Entomological Association of Southern California, NABA and Xerces.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Peter Bryant<br><br><br>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; PLEASE FORWARD TO APPROPRIATE MAILING LISTS:<br><br><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Contact: Peter Bryant<br>949-933-9654<br><a href="mailto:pjbryant@uci.edu">pjbryant@uci.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>NEWPORT BAY CONSERVANCY PRESENTS ITS THIRD ANNUAL NEWPORT BAY SYMPOSIUM:<br></span><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;color:#2F9F3C'> <br>Plants and their Pollinators: <br>Interactions for a Healthy Planet<br><br></span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center, <br>Newport Bay Nature Preserve, Newport Beach, CA <br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Saturday June 22, 2013, 9am - 3pm<br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Learn about the plants and insects that we all depend on!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Timed to coincide with National Pollinator week, this program will bring together some of our foremost local experts on native plants and their vitally important partners, the insect pollinators. Jutta Burger will discuss recent volunteer programs conducted by the Irvine Ranch Conservancy to survey our local butterfly populations on a continuing, monthly basis. Our Keynote speaker will be the well-known local expert on both plants AND insects, "Bug-Bob" Allen, who will talk about some of the more unusual pollination mechanisms. He will be followed by Richard Minnich from UC Riverside who will discuss our declining Wildflower populations, and Scott Hoffman Black, the Executive Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, who will talk about the problems caused by systemic insecticides, especially neonicotinoids which generate toxic pollen and nectar and were recently banned in the European Union but are still used in the U.S.<br><br>The talks will be followed by a native plant sale during lunchtime, and the day will conclude with a series of informal field trips to local trails where some of these plants and insects are found.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='color:red'>Save your space by registering on line at <a href="http://www.newportbay.org/">www.NewportBay.org</a> <br>or at the front desk at the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center!</span></u></b><span style='color:red'> <br>NBC Members and Students $20; Non-members $40 (<u>includes lunch!</u>) <br><b>NON-MEMBERS SPECIAL: $50 includes symposium, lunch and individual annual NBC membership <br>(= $65 value; includes $10 kayak tours, reduced prices to events such as this, gift shop discount and more!)<br><br></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Please post or distribute the attached flier!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>