Coming: Spring Turtle and Tortoise Seminar
"A Day To Remember"
March 24th 2012 - Vista Elks Lodge Map
SDTTS is sponsoring the Spring Turtle and Tortoise Seminar
with top name breeder and researcher.
Purchase your reservation online now:
$15 per Adult
($10 per Junior)
SELECT RESERVATION OPTION and CLICK "ADD TO CART"
Click "CONTINUE SHOPPING" to come back to this page and add another
reservation type.
Plenty of RV Parking available for our out-of-town guests - $18.
PRINTABLE REGISTRATION FORM with mailing address
Only $15.00 per person includes seminars, exhibits, and evening music and fun!
12:00pm - 5:00pm Seminars
5:00pm - 6:00pm Happy Hour
6:00pm - 10:00pm Dancing and Music
(Doors open at 10am . . . optional lunch served by Elks 11:00am - 12:pm)
Turtle and Tortoise Items for sale
Dancing & Music by the Elixer Band (Rock & Roll)
Speakers: Dr. Jeff Lovich and Vic Morgan
"Terrific times with turtles:
Reflections on a career studying natures greatest success story"
JEFF LOVICH has been fascinated with turtles since childhood. He has been a serious student of turtle ecology and systematics for 30 years, publishing his first turtle paper in 1982. Currently, he is a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, ironically, one of the few places in the U.S with no turtles! He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biology at George Mason University working with Carl Ernst, and his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, working with Whit Gibbons and Justin Congdon at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. In addition to over 100 scientific papers and popular publications, most on turtles, he published four books including Turtles of the United States and Canada, Biological Diversity: Problems and Challenges, The State of the Colorado River Ecosystem in the Grand Canyon, and a substantially revised Turtles of the United States and Canada, Second Edition, published in 2009. He is a Co-Editor of the journal Chelonian Conservation and Biology; a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group; and a Fulbright Scholar who taught graduate ecology in Morocco in 2008. Jeff discovered, described and named four of the world’s turtle species, three of which occur in the United States. However science is just a hobby, he'd rather be spending time with his family, hunting, driving one of his 1964 GTO's, or catching turtles.
VIC MORGAN - "Working with Burmese Mountain Tortoises"
Former President of the Jacksonville Herpetological Society, Vic Morgan has been working with reptiles for 30+ yrs. His main focus has grown into working with the endearing Burmese Black and Brown Mountain Tortoises whose survival in the wild is in peril due to the Chinese markets need for food and medicine. Habitat loss due to fires, logging, and agriculture play another significant role not to mention that roughly 90% of Burmese eggs are eaten by predators before they hatch. Vics undying devotion to this incredible species is second to none and his efforts in educating the public is invaluable for this majestic tortoises survival.
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