2009

SEPTEMBER EVENTS MEETING

There will be no formal meeting this month.  Instead, we will be having a field trip to a Western Pond Turtle site (see below).  All Valley Chapter members are welcome to attend!

September 26, 2009 Field Trip to Western Pond Turtle Site
Contact Stephanie Pappas at csf@att.net or (805) 901-8746 for details.

OCTOBER MEETING

October 16, 2009: Terri Ashmore Gardens Without Borders Part 2.

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."