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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi All, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s been a lot of interesting and exciting news going around this National Pollinator Week: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">White House Pollinator Partnership Action Plan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Blog/PPAP_2016.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Blog/PPAP_2016.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Smithsonian Pollinator Garden focuses on importance of pollination</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/22/its-all-about-the-hummingbirds-and-the-bees-for-th/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/22/its-all-about-the-hummingbirds-and-the-bees-for-th/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Making Highways Safe for Bees, Butterflies and other Pollinators</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/keeping-highways-safe-bees-butterflies-and-other-pollinators">https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/keeping-highways-safe-bees-butterflies-and-other-pollinators</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Protecting Pollinators in New York: Current Cornell Research </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://nysipm.cornell.edu/sites/nysipm.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/mcart-pollinator-conf-2015.pdf">http://nysipm.cornell.edu/sites/nysipm.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/mcart-pollinator-conf-2015.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">During National Pollinator Week, USDA Announces Key Measures to Improve Pollinator Health</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/06/0152.xml&contentidonly=true">http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/06/0152.xml&contentidonly=true</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEW AT HQ: POLLINATOR WEEK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2016/06/21/new-at-hq-pollinator-week/">https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2016/06/21/new-at-hq-pollinator-week/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sincerely, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Kelly Rourke </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Program Coordinator </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pollinator Partnership</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">423 Washington Street, 5th Floor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">San Francisco, CA 94111</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">e: </span><a href="mailto:kr@pollinator.org"><span 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