I agree with Joe. Gale -----Original Message----- From: Joe Parks <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: [PCA] PROJECT: Announcing the Native Plant Conservation Campaign >Loraine, JBS now has a well defined mission. It is very successful as a >volunteer orgainization doing what it does. Its time, energy and money are >extremely limited. At the present time its very limited assets (read >volunteer services) deliver a very useful (and delightful) program to its >members. Let's keep it that way. >Once it starts trying to be all things to all people (and if adoption of >this idea is important, I can think of several others just as important) it >will lose its 'raison de etre' and start down a slippery slope to >nothingness because it will be spreading its limited assets over too large a >spectrum. It's acceptable and desirable for members to alert all of us at >any time to whatever might be of interest but lets keep the organization on >the (what has been very successful up to now) straight and narrow. I am >stringently opposed to the organization doing anything like this and if >necessary will make an issue of it. Joe Parks >----- Original Message ----- >From: Loraine Kohorn <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:18 AM >Subject: Fwd: [PCA] PROJECT: Announcing the Native Plant Conservation >Campaign > > >> Dear JBS members, >> >> I'm not yet an official member of JBS, being new to the state, but was >> grateful for the recent exchange for letting me know how to go about >joining. >> I just received the below form the Plant Conservation Alliance; perhaps >> others of you did as well. Would the Josselyn Botanical Society be >> interested in joining the network as a group? Perhaps this would be >> worthy of discussion at the April meeting. For starters, if you have an >> opinion, yay or nay, please e-mail me (lkohorn@duke,edu)( I live in >> Brunswick now, despite the e-address), and I'll compile and post the >> results. Also, I'd appreciate any info on current involvement of the JBS >> in other ongoing plant conservation efforts (e.g. NEWFS) . >> >> Thanks >> >> Loraine >> >> >X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 >> >From: "Emily B. Roberson" <[log in to unmask]> >> >To: [log in to unmask] >> >Subject: [PCA] PROJECT: Announcing the Native Plant Conservation Campaign >> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >> >X-edited-by: [log in to unmask] >> >Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:23:24 EST >> >Sender: [log in to unmask] >> >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter, Duke University (http://amavis.org/) >> > >> >Calling all Native Plant Societies, Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and >> >others working to conserve the flora of the U.S. >> > >> >The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and the Center for Biological >> >Diversity invite you to join us in a new project - the Native Plant >> >Conservation Campaign. >> > >> >The goal of the Campaign is to assemble a national network of native >> >plant societies, botanical gardens, and other plant conservation >> >organizations that will support each other's work, exchange information >> >and work together to create a strong national voice in support of native >> >plants. >> > >> >We will advocate for >> >* improved staffing and funding for Federal botany programs on National >> >Parks, National Forests, BLM lands, and within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife >> >Service >> >* improved staffing and funding for prevention and control programs for >> >invasive exotic organisms >> >* increased use of local native plants in restoration >> >* increased funding for plant science research and education >> >* changes in Federal law better to conserve imperiled plants >> > >> >A full project description is available at >> >http://www.cnps.org/NPCC/npcc.pdf >> > >> >For more information about the Native Plant Conservation Campaign contact >> >Emily Roberson at [log in to unmask] or go to http://www.cnps.org/npcc.htm >> > >> >Thank you! >> > >> >Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D. >> >Director >> >Native Plant Conservation Campaign >> >415 970 0394 - Phone >> >[log in to unmask] - e mail >> > >> >The mission of the NPCC is to promote appreciation and conservation of >> >native plant species and communities through education, law, policy, land > >> >use and management. >> > >> >The NPCC is a project of the Center for Biological Diversity and the >> >California Native Plant Society. >> >http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ >> >http://www.cnps.org/ >>