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2009
JUNE MEETING
June 19th:
MICHAEL J. CONNOR WILL SPEAK ON "CONSERVING DESERT TORTOISES THROUGHOUT
THEIR RANGE."
JULY MEETING
July 17th: Terre
Ashmore - Gardens Without Borders, Part 1.
This fact-filled talk is an excerpt from the speaker's class on
understanding and designing habitat. "True habitat is expansive and
generous to the animals in it. Tortoises range far and wide in the wild;
the effort they put into finding food, shelter, mates, and establishing
territory is vital to behavioral health as well as physical health.
Captive animals (and their humans) can share a well designed habitat
that emulates a larger scale in the space they have available, yet
provide all the essential elements. An added benefit is the surrounding
wildlife that joins your habitat as though invited and becomes an
element of it as well." Handouts are included and plants will be
available for purchase. Part 2 of this talk will be presented October 16
to assist those who've put the concepts of the first talk into effect,
and to discuss additional habitat design using native California flora.
Terre Ashmore has been designing and installing habitat for humans and
others for 30+ years. She worked at the Theodore Payne Foundation and
provided edible landscape info for the Tortuga Gazette in 1992. As a
zoological horticulturist she researched habitat for captive
environments at the Los Angeles Zoo including lemurs, red wolves,
bobcats, and dingos; and installed privately owned landscapes for birds,
beneficial insects, reptiles, mammals and bats. She has a tortoise named
Homer who has been her companion for fifty years.
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