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November 8, 2009: Save the date for our Annual Membership Meeting!

55th Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday November 8, 2009 11AM–4PM.

Meet DPC Board, staff, and your fellow members at the beautiful Whitewater Canyon Preserve, 2,851 acres surrounded by the BLM’s San Gorgonio Wilderness, a crucial transition-zone wildlife corridor between the San Jacinto and San Bernardino mountains.

[Photo: Bighorn Sheep at the Whitewater Canyon Preserve, photo courtesy the Wildlands Conservancy.]

On the agenda:

• Cameron Barrows of UC Riverside will offer a presentation on his research on climate change and the desert tortoise
• The DPC’s own Pat Flanagan Pat Flanagan will speak about the “Making of a Naturalist” field trip curriculum DPC is funding for Imperial County students, and will provide update on Mojave Desert Land Trust successes.
• Chris Clarke (yours truly) will read some of his writing on Joshua trees.
• Ruth Nolan will introduce the new anthology of desert writing she edited for Heyday Books, and will speak on the “spirit” of the California desert, a place of inspiration and renewal, as embodied in the literature of the California desert.
• plus Special Guest Elden Hughes, lifelong protector of the desert and mentor to generations of activists, with a presentation on Senator Diane Feinstein’s forthcoming “Desert Conservation and Recreation Act.”

Lunch will be provided by DPC.

We’ll send all our members postcards with even more details and directions soon, and will keep you posted here on DesertBlog as well.