Cradle of Texas Chapter
General Meeting and Advanced Training
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Texas Agrilife Extension Office, Angleton
| 8:30-am | Social-and-snacks |
| 9:00-am | General Meeting |
| 9:30-am | Advanced Training, Part 1 -----Speaker: Sheree Etie -----Topic: Animals In The Environment Sheree Etie is a Texas permitted wildlife rehabilitator and currently serves as President of Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue. Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization of permitted wildlife rehabilitators and volunteers dedicated to caring for injured and orphaned wildlife for the purpose of release back into the wild. The primary activity of GCWR is to provide food, shelter, medical treatment, and rehabilitation to all Texas native wildlife at no cost to the public. We serve the Brazoria and Matagorda County areas along the upper Texas Gulf Coast. GCWR is an all volunteer organization with no paid employees. GCWR receives NO state, federal, or city funds; however, donations are welcomed from individuals, business, and industry to help defray costs for food and medicine. Advanced Training, Part 2 -----Speakers: Steve Hoddy and Phil Huxford -----Topic: EarthQuest Birds of Prey Show Steve Hoddy is a Master Falconer and wildlife handler for EarthQuest, a Georgia-based non-profit environmental education organization dedicated to the education of the public as to their impact on the natural world. Hoddy and his assistant Josh Baldwin are presently in Brazoria County to present Birds of Prey shows at Migration Celebration and at local schools. Birds of Prey shows have been presented at local schools every year since 2003 in cooperation with Friends of the Brazoria Wildlife Refuges, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EarthQuest, and local sponsors. In 2010, almost thirty shows have been scheduled for presentation at schools in the Alvin, Angleton, Bay City, Columbia-Brazoria, Brazosport, Damon, Danbury, Sweeny, and Van Vleck ISDs. This series of shows began on March 24 and will continue through mid-April. Phil Huxford is a founding member of the Cradle of Texas Chapter and is member of the Class of 2001. Phil is also a member of Friends of Brazoria Wildlife Refuges and serves on its Board of Directors. He currently serves as co-chair of Migration Celebration. |