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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hi Jay,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Thanks for sharing! In the event that we ask our NRS ¿field curious? or Student Naturalist Training past cohorts for assistance with this effort, do you have specific dates and times
when you could use a hand?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Joy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase">JOY BACCEI</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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<span style="text-transform:uppercase">MERCED VERNAL POOLS & GRASSLAND RESERVE <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999">5200 Lake Road </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DAAC00">|</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999"> Merced,
California 95343</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://doi.org/10.21973/n3ft0m"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.21973/n3ft0m</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jason Sexton <jsexton2@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 2:50 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Joy Baccei <jbaccei@ucmerced.edu>, Jesse Chakrin <jchakrin@ucmerced.edu>, Jessica Malisch <jmalisch@ucmerced.edu>, Breeanne Jackson <bjackson10@ucmerced.edu>, Lynn Breithaupt <lbreithaupt@csustan.edu>, Sexton Lab Members <sextonlab@lists.ucmerced.edu>,
"sextonlabmeeting@lists.ucmerced.edu" <sextonlabmeeting@lists.ucmerced.edu>, Intermountain <bonnie@intermountainnursery.com>, Chris Swarth <cswarth10@gmail.com>, Ezequiel Carlos <ecarlos3@ucmerced.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>We're planting those scarlet monkeyflowers in case you, or someone you know, wants to check it ou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've mentioned to you here and there over the past year about how we're setting up a common garden for scarlet monkeyflowers just south of Yosemite NP. (See attached project 1-pager).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, the time is finally here to plug them into the ground. We've got ~3,500 seedlings to transplant from the UC Merced greenhouse to Batterson Station (US Forest Service). We're starting our big push to get them in the ground this week,
and the push will probably last a couple of weeks, including plantings, quality checks, and initial measurements. If you or anyone you know feels like checking it out and can spare any time to help plug and/or measure some plants in that garden, please let
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you Google Maps "Yosemite Forks" it will give you an approximate location of the garden, but here are the coordinates: 37.3795278172747, -119.62896439552196<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully by mid-summer we'll have quite a pollinator garden up there.
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