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Feb. 24th, at 6pm, North Port Friends of Wildlife will be hosting a talk provided by Joan Berish who will be presenting highlights from her memoir, Fire and Fauna, Tales of a Life Untamed. These highlights will cover her experiences as a wildland firefighter and wildlife research biologist . The paths she traveled to become a wildlife biologist yielded adventures that ranged from humorous to terrifying. She outran treetop flames as a helitack firefighter in New Mexico; spent a night in a small-town Georgia jail with an indigo snake when she was in graduate school at Auburn University; and survived a near disaster in Florida when a small plane’s engine stalled as she was searching for a wandering, gopher tortoise.
Joan (Diemer) Berish began studying southeastern sandhill reptiles in 1978 after working in nuclear medicine research, veterinary science, and wildland firefighting. In 1981, she received her Master’s degree in wildlife biology from Auburn University with her thesis work on the distribution of the eastern indigo snake in Georgia. From 1980 until her retirement in 2014, Joan was employed at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Wildlife Research Lab in Gainesville. Her primary research over three decades involved gopher tortoise status, distribution, population dynamics, movements, and effects of upper respiratory tract disease. Joan is now retired and lives in New Mexico.
To register for this Zoom meeting, please register here: https://scgovlibrary.librarymarket.com/events/north-port-friends-wildlife-lecture-series-live-1
For more information, please call 941 876 3720 or visit http://www.northportfriendsofwildlife.org/
Joan (Diemer) Berish began studying southeastern sandhill reptiles in 1978 after working in nuclear medicine research, veterinary science, and wildland firefighting. In 1981, she received her Master’s degree in wildlife biology from Auburn University with her thesis work on the distribution of the eastern indigo snake in Georgia. From 1980 until her retirement in 2014, Joan was employed at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Wildlife Research Lab in Gainesville. Her primary research over three decades involved gopher tortoise status, distribution, population dynamics, movements, and effects of upper respiratory tract disease. Joan is now retired and lives in New Mexico.
To register for this Zoom meeting, please register here: https://scgovlibrary.librarymarket.com/events/north-port-friends-wildlife-lecture-series-live-1
For more information, please call 941 876 3720 or visit http://www.northportfriendsofwildlife.org/