Turtles don't move slow, people do.

So I had my quarterly meeting for the Turtle & Tortoise club this past Saturday. We constantly are being informed of all the dangers and threats to the natural habitat for the Desert Tortoise. We are constantly faced with keeping up to date info on the care, feeding and husbandry of the DT. Unfortuntatly, when you get a room full of people who "know it all" you can become deadlocked very quickly. You've heard that phrase, "what works for one, doesn't necessarily work for another." Well if you have, then you are ahead of everyone else in this room. I have come to the conclusion that these people do not realize that each Chapter represented is from a different climate. So we, as humans, have to adapt to different climates, so do the DT's. You can not mandate husbandry guidelines that work for Orange County and expecting those to work in San Luis Obispo. It's kinda funny that people get in yelling matches over this stuff. It takes us months and months to get motions carried sometimes. Even though we had a somewhat productive meeting, it still took 4.5 hours. If we took after our hard shelled friends, we would notice that moving forward slowly is much more productive than running backwards.