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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Applications are open here: <a href="http://snrs.ucmerced.edu/form/calnat2017app">
http://snrs.ucmerced.edu/form/calnat2017app</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Applications are due July 15. Participants will be accepted from these categories: Professionally affiliated with Yosemite National Park (e.g. NPS, Nature Bridge, Yosemite Conservancy, etc.), affiliated with
UC Merced or UC Santa Barbara (student, staff, faculty), and associated with California and adjacent communities. Participants will be accepted within each of these categories up to the participant cap for each category. Included in the application form are
questions about demographic diversity and socio-economic background to help better understand the communities interested in this training. Your order of signup on the waitlist (which is also this mailing list) will be the order that applications are considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Details on this year’s course can be found here:
<a href="http://snrs.ucmerced.edu/calnat">http://snrs.ucmerced.edu/calnat</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">See you in the mountains!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Iowan Old Style";font-variant:small-caps">Director, UC Merced Yosemite and Sequoia Field Stations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Iowan Old Style";font-variant:small-caps">7799 Chilnualna Falls Rd | Wawona, CA 95389<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Iowan Old Style";font-variant:small-caps">office 209-375-9917 | cell 209-628-1064</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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