On Friday April 17, 2009 we participated in an AZ game and fish home shool event. We went to the Phoenix Zoo and helped them catch, sort, and educated the public about non-native turtles. It was really interesting and we all learned alot. They gave us alot of information to learn so that we could infor the people crossing the bridge into the zoo about what was going on in pond/river. I didn't know that non-native turtle were out-competing our native turtles, even eating them in some cases. Reilly and I were the outreach people and Charlee got to be the runner, she was allowed to take the turtles (in a container) from the pond to the where the data was collected. She was allowed to write the data down for the biologist. (from PHS).
As a fun bonus, we received a free pass to the zoo and an upclose and personal tour of the galapagos turtles.
Here is the link to the news story:
