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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Like Minneapolis, the city of <span style='color:black'>Toronto sits in one of the busiest migratory bird corridors in the world. And in both cities, birds get disoriented by the reflection of sky, clouds and nearby habitat on building glass and try to fly through it, with fatal results. Unlike Minneapolis, however, Toronto took legislative action and </span>implemented Bird Friendly Development Guidelines to ensure that both new and existing buildings were made <a href="https://inhabitat.com/9-things-you-can-do-to-help-wild-birds-this-summer/" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>safer for bird</span></a>s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please join us on <b>June 13</b> as <span style='color:black'>Michael Mesure, founder and executive director of the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada, explains how FLAP worked with Toronto city leaders to adopt bird-safe standards and how Minneapolis can replicate them.<span class=s3> </span><span class=s13>Mesure advocates for bird protections at various levels of government, and consults with city planners across North America on developing bird-friendly guidelines. </span>He will discuss green standards as well as current and proposed legislation, and will offer <span class=s13>recommendations for </span>retrofitting U.S. Bank Stadium to make it safer for birds. <span class=s3>This is the third of three presentations addressing retrofit options for the stadium.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=s3><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Mesure’s presentation will </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>be held at the <span class=s3>Brookdale Library, </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>6125 Shingle Creek Parkway,</span><span class=s3><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Brooklyn Center, MN, on <b>Wednesday, June 13, 2018, at 6:30 p.m.</b> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The event is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $5, and is <span class=s3>sponsored by a coalition of bird conservation groups including Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis, Minnesota Citizens for the Protection of Migratory Birds, and Friends of Roberts Bird Sanctuary.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Please share this message with friends and colleagues. If you have questions, please reply to this email. We hope to see you on June 13.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stephen Greenfield<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Minneapolis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Friends of Roberts Bird Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>