Thirty Third
Annual General Meeting and Banquet Reservation Form

Banquet Registration Form (pdf)

The Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee

Invites You to Join Us At Our

33nd Annual Banquet and General Meeting

January 26, 2008

The DTPC's Annual Meeting and Banquet will be held Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Signature Best Western Antelope Valley Inn "Apollo Room" 44055 North Sierra Highway, Lancaster, California 93553 (phone: 661-984-4651). The afternoon Annual Meeting will feature reviews of the Committee's ongoing programs, achievements and plans for 2008, and guest speakers from the Bureau of Land Management and the Calif. Department of Fish and Game will give updates on important activities. The Banquet speaker will be Dr. Ken Nagy and the topic is "Conserving Desert Tortoises by Head-starting Juveniles".

PROGRAM

• Annual Meeting 2:00 to 5:00 P.M.
• Banquet Event 6:00 to 9:00 P.M.

Featuring Guest Speaker: Dr. Ken Nagy
Title: “Conserving Desert Tortoises by Head-starting Juveniles”

“Dr. Ken Nagy grew up in Southern California and was fascinated with the reptiles he saw along the coast-line and in the Mojave Desert. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside in 1971, studying Chuckwalla ecophysiology, and has been on the faculty at UCLA doing desert biology since then.

”His talk will describe ways to help tortoise populations recover and persist by increasing the number of young tortoises recruited into natural populations. This can be done by improving survivorship of eggs and of whole nests, and by enhancing juvenile body condition, growth rate, and survivorship. Results from ongoing studies at several military bases in the Mojave Desert will be summarized.

To RSVP and For Additional Information Contact:
Melissa Nicholson, Preserve Manager & Office Administrator at
951-683-3872, E-mail: dtpc@pacbell.net, or Fax: 951-683-6949

Print and complete the form on this page or pdf version and send with your check.

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Make check payable to: DTPC, 4067 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California 92501