PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS
The
Council sponsors an annual contest to honor and encourage members to participate in educating the public through
photography. This year there was a particularly rich and varied series of entries in the contest held at the 2002 Annual Symposium. As
always, prints were judged at by the Symposium attendees and winners announced at the Banquet on Saturday night.
...BEST OF SHOW
BEST OF SHOW. Eric Stitt was awarded the $100 prize for best of show with this enchanting shot of Canyon Treefrogs (Hyla arenicolor)
aggregated above a small plunge pool at Saguaro National Park taken in August of 1998.
WINNERS IN OTHER CATEGORIES.
Category 1: Wild Desert Tortoises
1st place Julie Alpert
2nd place Mark Massar
3rd place Kemp Anderson
Category 2: Captive Pet Tortoises
1st place Cheryl Darnell - Desert tortoise, August 2001
Category 3: Other Desert Reptiles
1st place Mark Massar
2nd place Julie Alpert
3rd place Julie Alpert
Category 4: Desert Mammals
1st place Taylor Edwards
Category 5: Other Desert Wildlife
1st place Eric Stitt (see Best of Show above)
2nd place Ryan Hewitt - Burrowing owl, Spea cunicularia, suburban Las Vegas
3rd place Ryan Hewitt
Category 6: Wild Desert Plants
1st place Ryan Hewitt - Allium nevadense, single leaved desert onion,
just outside Las Vegas
2nd place Julie Alpert
3rd place Julie Alpert
Category 7: Desert Scenics
1st place Casey Burns - Joshua Tree National Park, April 2001
2nd place Julie Alpert
Category 8: Tortoise Conservation
1st place Ryan Hewitt - Gopherus agassizii, Desert Tortoise
Conservation Center, 8/03/02
2nd place Ryan Hewitt
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