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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Rod Simmons [mailto:Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov] <br>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 5:52 PM<br>To: board@mdflora.org<br>Subject: Fwd: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Patricia Hilgard <<a href="mailto:hilgardp@yahoo.com">hilgardp@yahoo.com</a>><br>Date: August 7, 2017 5:44:35 PM EDT<br>To: Undisclosed recipients:;<br>Subject: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.<br>Reply-To: Patricia Hilgard <<a href="mailto:hilgardp@yahoo.com">hilgardp@yahoo.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></blockquote><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:435.0pt;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word;text-align:inherit;border-spacing: 0px' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62073"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62075"><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62076"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt'><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62077"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/279976/24399/210696/0/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62078"><span style='color:#2266AA'>Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.</span></a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:5.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62079"><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;height:5.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62080"><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt' id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62081"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Invasive, non-native plant species are “rapidly invading” northern forests in Pennsylvania because of fracking in the Marcellus shale basin, a group of Penn State researchers say.<a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/279976/24399/210696/0/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62083"><span style='color:#2266AA'>Lancaster Intelligencer Journal</span></a>, Pennsylvania. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></td></tr></table><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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