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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In this month’s Pollinator Habitat Tip, we talk about a key strategy to increase the wildflower diversity and abundance in established habitat projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This may be one of the most important Pollinator Habitat Tips that we’ve produced as most habitat projects tend to experience the natural successional changes that happen when grasses start to dominate in a project and reduce the abundance of forb species. This tip will provide some key and strategic steps that can restore a projects diversity as the stability between grasses and forbs is put back in balance. A resurgence and abundance of wildflowers will benefit all kinds of pollinator and wildlife species.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="https://youtu.be/0CiZT3P4Wb4">https://youtu.be/0CiZT3P4Wb4</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.05pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.05pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Peter S. 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