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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Today, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has released its request for proposals for the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund. There is an </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">excerpt
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<span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">The Nationa</span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">l Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is soliciting proposals
to advance pollinator conservation. The goal of the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund (Pollinator Fund) is to protect, conserve, and i</span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">ncrease
habitat for the monarch butterfly and other pollinators. </span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">The Po</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">llinator
Fund will award up to $1.3 million in g</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">rants in 2020. Funding is provided by Shell Oil Company, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS),
and U.S. Forest Service (USFS). </span></span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">The most co</span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">mpetitive projects
will </span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:merriweather,serif; font-size:20px"></span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">de</span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">monstrate
clear benefits to both the monarch butterfly and other at-risk native insect pollinator</span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">s. Grants will be awarded in two categories: 1) </span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Technical
Assistance for Private Working Lands and 2) </span><span style="color:rgb(23,23,23); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Habitat Improvement. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin:20px 0px"><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Applicant Webinar:</span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>March
17,</b> 3:00 PM, ET</span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">(</span><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/331338233728650765" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="word-break:break-word"><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Register
here</span></a><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pre-Proposal Due Date: </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Thursday,
April 16</b> by 11:59 PM ET<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Full Proposal Due Date: </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Tuesday,
June 30</b> by 11:59 PM ET</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">​More details can be found on the NFWF website</span><span style="font-size:11pt">: </span><a href="https://www.nfwf.org/programs/monarch-butterfly-and-pollinators-conservation-fund/monarch-butterfly-and-pollinators" style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">https://www.nfwf.org/programs/monarch-butterfly-and-pollinators-conservation-fund/monarch-butterfly-and-pollinators</a></p>
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Dolores Savignano, Ph.D.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">email: dolores_savignano@fws.gov</span></div>
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