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Meeting ID: 812 3770 5301. Passcode: 940862

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This meeting is our annual member meeting and includes the election of the Board of Directors. Please contact the nominating committee to get on, or nominate someone for, the ballot here.

Extending from the southwestern US into northern Mexico, the Sonoran Desert is an ecological hotspot of biodiversity due to its vast array of habitats. The Smiths will speak on the wonders of the Sonoran Desert and the importance of environmental education through books such as “The Astonishing, Astounding, Amazing Sonoran Desert”. They will sign copies and all proceeds from their book  funds Friends of the Sonoran Desert (FSD), a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and protect the Sonoran Desert. 

Harriet Smith, Managing Director, FSD, is a retired clinical psychologist from Tucson. As a child, she awoke to the coos of Mourning Doves, hiked trails where the vibrant colors of cactus blooms and the sound of rattlesnakes caught her attention, and swam in natural desert pools that filled after monsoon rains. Her desire to conserve the Sonoran Desert motivated her to write this book. She also authored Parenting for Primates, 2005, Harvard University Press.

Andrew Smith, Director, FSD, is President’s Professor Emeritus and a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. Since 1991 he has served as Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Lagomorph Group. Books include A Guide to the Mammals of China, 2008, Princeton University Press, and Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World, 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2015 he received the Aldo Leopold Conservation Award from the American Society of Mammalogists.