Community briefs for June 6, 2002

Thursday, June 6, 2002 | 8:31 a.m.

Program planned on tortoises

Southern Nevada residents thinking about adopting a desert tortoise can find out how to make tortoises healthier and happier during a free slide presentation June 18 by Betty Burge of the Tortoise Group.

Burge can help teach how to dig a burrow, how to feed tortoises and how to keep tortoises from escaping. The presentation is set for 1 p.m. on June 18 at the Nevada State Museum in Lorenzi Park on West Washington Avenue.

Join Elizabeth for the Fletcher Canyon

moderate hike or "Following Along the Pinyon Pine Trail," a six-mile, moderately-strenuous hike Sunday at Red Rock Canyon. To make reservations or for more information, call 363-1922.

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