Meetings & Events
2008 30th Annual Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting
Gopher Tortoise Council Fall Meeting & Symposium dates and location.
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. This is an early, general call for papers too.
2007 Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting
For a pdf. of the 2007 meeting program, Click Here