<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://88/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Andi,<div><br></div><div>Green ash is not native to Alberta, but there have been thousands planted through the Federal and Provincial Shelterbelt Programs</div><div><br></div><div>Brendan</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-05-22, at 7:21 AM, Andi Noakes <<a href="mailto:anoakes@nd.edu">anoakes@nd.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hello everyone!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">My name is Andi Noakes and I am a graduate student from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, U.S. I am coming to Alberta and Saskatchewan in June to look for natural green ash stands, but I am hoping to find some before I leave so that I am not wandering around aimlessly. These provinces are at the edge of this tree’s range, but I feel strongly that there are some natural stands in the Edmonton area and hopefully some in SK as well.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Please feel free to email or call me if you know where I might be able to find some. I would like to get about 30 individual samples per location, but I am willing to take much less, especially at the edge of the range.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you all for your help!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Andi<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:anoakes@nd.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">anoakes@nd.edu</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">307-699-2561<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>