<div><div dir="ltr"><p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 3px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:28px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-weight:bold">Get ready! The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz begins today, July 28th! </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">For the next two weeks, we invite you to submit monarch and milkweed observations to the Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper and other participating community science projects. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Volunteer observations are critical to our collective understanding of monarch populations and habitat during the summer breeding season. The last day to participate is August 6th. We hope you’ll join us in this community science effort! </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Learn more about the Monarch Blitz here: <a href="http://www.cec.org/international-monarch-monitoring-blitz/" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">http://www.cec.org/international-monarch-monitoring-blitz/</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">THANKS! </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Isis Howard </s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