The Organization for the Protection of Nevada’s Resident Tortoises, Inc.

Las Vegas, Nevada

a non-profit organization since 1982.

Contributing in efforts to protect the wild desert tortoise and its 
natural habitat and promoting responsible care of legally acquired pet desert tortoises.

Spring 2008 Meeting Schedule

 

September 15 - Photo Contest, Silent Auction and ----Ice Cream Sundaes !!!

When: May 17, Saturday, 9 am – noon

Where: Nevada State Museum and Historical Society

(in Lorenzi Park)

700 Twin Lakes Drive

 

Pizza and Packing Party

Volunteer a few hours labeling and bagging MegaDiet.  Help Tortoise Group gear up for the season, talk tortoise, and treat yourself to pizza!  Call Kathy at 804-0472 to let us know you’re coming!  We need lots of help for this project!

 

June 21, Saturday, 1 – 3 pm

Trekking Alone in Search of Desert Tortoises

Betty Burge shares photos of desert tortoises and other desert critters, and scenes of special interest and beauty during her several-thousand-mile trek through the Mojave Desert in California, Nevada, Utah and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.  Her stories will interest and amuse you!

 

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