Meetings & Events
2009 31st Annual Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting
Mark your calendars!
Gainesville, Florida on October 2-3 at the Paramount Hotel.
This year’s topic will be Effective Education and Outreach for Gopher Tortoises and Upland Habitat Conservation.
More info coming soon.
2008 30th Annual Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting
Gopher Tortoise Council Fall Meeting & Symposium dates and location.
Registration Form Available Here
Meeting Schedule Available Here
Where is the meeting being held? Jekyll Island, GA at the Oceanside Inn and Suites - 1-866-553-5955
What are the dates? The business meeting will be held at and catered by the hotel on Thursday October 2. The special topics day will be Friday October 3 and the main gopher tortoise presentations will be on Saturday October 4. We will have some field trips organized for Sunday October 5. Please get in touch with Terry Norton if you are willing to host a field trip or have ideas.
We have rooms reserved at a discount rate at the hotel. Please make your reservations by August 21, 2008.
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center will be assisting with the conference this year and there will be a tour of the facility on Friday evening for those interested. We will have a low country boil on Friday night and a barbeque on Saturday night.
Hotel reservations can be made by calling 1-866-553-5955.
The special topic for Friday is wildlife and ecosystem health. We have a number of speakers lined up. We would like to get more topics on ecosystem health and how habitat quality affects wildlife health. We are also interested in having someone present information on herbicide use and how it affects wildlife in the longleaf pine ecosystem.
ATTENTION: Call for Presentations for the 2008 Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting at Jekyll Island, GA.
We are soliciting presentations for the second day of the meeting (Saturday, October 4, 2008). Appropriate topics include current research on gopher tortoises or other upland species, as well as topics related to conservation, management, and restoration of upland habitat. We particularly encourage graduate student presentations. Abstracts should be submitted to Lora Smith (lsmith@jonesctr.org) by August 15, 2008.