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The
Council sponsors its annual photo contest to honor and encourage members to participate in educating the public through
photography. In 2003, there was a particularly rich and varied series of entries.
Prints were judged by the Symposium attendees and winners announced at the Banquet on Saturday night.
...BEST OF SHOW
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Dennis Silva took best of show for his photograph of a wild
desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, on the Marine Corp Air Ground Combat
Center, Twentynine Palms, California taken in May 2000.
Category 1: Wild Desert Tortoises
First Place: Dennis Silva (Best of Show)
Honorable Mention: Eric Stitt; Ted Cordery
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WINNERS IN OTHER CATEGORIES.
Category 2: Captive Pet Tortoises
First Place: Cheryl Darnell - "Hummer" Desert Tortoise,
2002
Honorable Mention: Darlene Pond; Darlene Pond; Ted Cordery; Ted Cordery
Category 3: Other Desert Reptiles
First Place: Dave Focardi - Desert Horned Lizard, Kramer Junction,
California. August 4, 2002
Honorable Mention: Dave Focardi; Bob Parker; Bob Parker; Shelley Ellis; Eric
Stitt
Category 4: Desert Mammals
First Place: Chris Blandford - American Badger, North of Black Canyon,
northwest of Black Mountain and Opal Mountain, California. May 2001.
Category 5: Other Desert Wildlife
First Place: Shelley Ellis - Hairy Tarantula, Organ Pipe National Monument,
Arizona. October 1997.
Honorable Mention: Bob Parker; Dave Focardi
Category 6: Wild Desert Plants
First Place: Eric Stitt - Echinocereus spp., Tucson, Arizona. August
2001.
Honorable Mention: Shelley Ellis; Ted Cordery; Ted Cordery
Category 7: Desert Scenics
First Place: Shelley Ellis - Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona. April
1998.
Honorable Mention: Ted Cordery; Ted Cordery; Eric Stitt
Category 8: Tortoise Conservation
First Place: Ted Cordery - Chuckwalla Bench Field Trip. March 2001.
Honorable Mention: Ted Cordery
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