2004 PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS The Desert Tortoise Council Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting and Symposium Las Vegas, 2004 The Council sponsors its annual photo contest to honor and encourage members to participate in educating the public through photography. In 2004, there was a record number of entries.  Prints were judged by the Symposium attendees and winners announced at the Banquet on Saturday night. BEST OF SHOW * WILD DESERT TORTOISES * CAPTIVE DESERT TORTOISES  OTHER DESERT REPTILES * DESERT MAMMALS * OTHER DESERT WILDLIFE  WILD DESERT PLANTS * DESERT SCENICS * TORTOISE CONSERVATION BEST OF SHOW Dave Focardi Category 3 "Other Desert Reptile" shot of a Leopard Lizard   Category 1: Wild Desert Tortoises 1st Ellen Schafhauser In The Eye Of The Beholder Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizii Eagle Tail Study Plot, Arizona, September 2003   2nd Mir Velten Desert Tortoise, Blythe, California, August 2003   3rd Dave Focardi Category 2: Captive Desert Tortoises   1st Matt McMillan Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizii Large Scale Translocation Site, South of Jean, Nevada, August 2002   2nd Shelley Ellis Newly Hatched Desert Tortoise Ridgecrest, California, September 2003   3rd (tie) Cheryl Darnell Captive Desert Tortoise, Reno, Nevada, 1998   3rd (tie) Darlene Pond Is it Spring Yet?   Category 3: Other Desert Reptiles 1st Dave Focardi (see Best of Show above) 2nd Bridget Kobe Clayton Desert Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus insularis Rattlesnake Canyon, Joshua Tree National Park, May 2003   3rd Dave Focardi   Category 4: Desert Mammals   1st Dave Silverman Gray Fox, Urocyon cinereoargentus East Bajada Desert Tortoise Study Plot, Mohave County, Arizona   2nd (tie) Ryan Hewitt Desert Cottontail, Sylvilayus auduboni Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, Las Vegas, May 2003   3rd Dave Silverman Ringtail, Bassariscus astutus Granite Hills Study Plot, Pinal County, Arizona   Category 5: Other Desert Wildlife   1st Charlene Burge Burrowing Owls Athene cunicularia hypugaea, Tucson, November 2003   2nd Chereka Keaton   3rd Ryan Hewitt Black Widow, Latrodectus hesperus Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, Las Vegas, August 2003   Category 6: Wild Desert Plants   1st Ellen Schafhauser Pretty In Pink Mammillaria Cactus, Mammillaria dioica Granite Hills Study Plot, Arizona, October 2003 2nd Dave Silverman Mariposa Lily, Calochortus kennedyi El Paso Mountains, California, May 1998   3rd Ryan Hewitt Scented Beardtongue, Penstemon palmeri Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas, April 2003   Category 7: Desert Scenics   1st Charlene Burge Anza Borrego State Park, California   2nd Dave Silverman West Silverbell Mountains Desert Tortoise Study Plot, Pima County, Arizona, October 1991 3rd (tie) Daren Riedle 3rd (tie) Shelley Ellis Antelope Valley, California, March 2003   Category 8: Tortoise Conservation   1st Dave Focardi   2nd Matt McMillan Styrotort Army, Parking Lot, Las Vegas Field Station, February 2003   3rd Dave Silverman Desert Tortoise KGRT Route, Clark Mountains, California, May 1995

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