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9:00 A.M. Registration & check in for the seminar - $10.00 Donation (Free coffee & donuts)

9:30 A.M. Stephanie Pappas – President of the Chelonian Society & The Desert Tortoise Preserve “Burrows for captive tortoises. The pros and cons of captive tortoise habitat”

10:00 A.M. Don Williams – Kern County – from the California Turtle & Tortoise Club “CAPTIVE CARE FOR DESERT TORTOISE (GOPHERUS AGASSIZII)” Exploration of Benefits of Natural Care and Diet vs. Grocer Produce and Commercial food products

11:00 A.M. Dr. Ken Nagy – Professor Emeritus at U.C.L.A. Ecology & Evolution Field Herpetologist, Research & Conservation Biology. Dr. Nagy will be speaking on his work for Conservation Biology and the Head-Start studies at several specially-built hatchery-nursery installations located in natural habitat on military bases in the Mojave Desert on raising desert tortoises & releasing them into the wild. The study includes the many aspects of the life of a tortoise hatchling.

12:00 P.M. Lunch Break! (See attached sign -up sheet for options) $7.00

12:30 P.M Kristin H. Berry PhD U.S.G.S, BRD, Western Ecological Research Center . "Desert Tortoise Behaviors: Adaptations to Thrive and Survive" Desert tortoises exhibit a wide variety of behaviors, ranging from defense of shelters and mate choice to selection to food plants. Topics to be presented at the workshop will include seasonal activities, home range and movements, drinking and choice of food plants, social structure and dominance hierarchies, aggression and combat, defense of nests, mate guarding, mating and mating systems.

2:00 PM. “Galapagos Encounter” (OPTIONAL $25.00 FEE) 25 people will be able to “Get up close & personal” with our 3 local Galapagos (10 miles away). Take photos with Jaws (900 lbs)! This will be a one in a lifetime opportunity. This is one of our members tortoises.

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