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 On
Thursday, May 10, the winner of the 2007 Mojave Max
Emergence Contest, Lilly Rosser, and her entire class
took a field trip to the Red Rock Canyon National
Conservation Area Visitor’s Center. There they learned
about the climate of the Mojave Desert, took a short hike, met the live Mojave Max and had a
class pizza party.
As
part of the prize package for winning the contest, Lilly
and her class received Mojave Max Olympic-style medals,
Mojave Max T-shirts, CDs, family park passes, and a
giant traveling trophy has been awarded to the school
for one year.
During
the field trip, Lilly also received a new XBOX 360, a
digital camera, a backpack filled with hiking
necessities, and a National Park Pass. Madeline
Childers, Lilly’s teacher, received a new personal
computer. Community participation and donations
from local companies have made this year’s list of
prizes amazing.
 Mojave
Max is a live desert tortoise residing at the Red Rock
Canyon National Conservation Area. Like all other Southern Nevada
desert tortoises, he enters a burrow to brumate, the
reptilian form of hibernation, every winter, and emerges
every spring. Lilly Rosser predicted closest to the date
and time that Mojave Max actually emerged, making hr
the official winner of the 2007 Mojave Max Emergence
Contest.
Mojave
Max made his debut on March 26 at 11:34 a.m.
this year. Lilly guessed 11:33 a.m.
of that day. On April 19, Clark County
officials visited Lilly at her school, Spring Valley Christian
Academy, and announced that she was the winner of the 2007
Mojave Max Emergence Contest. “This is awesome,
awesome, awesome!” she exclaimed upon hearing the
news.
 This
contest is provided by the Clark County Desert
Conservation Program, the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management, the Clark County School District, and the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association.
It encourages students to study the Mojave Desert, learn about the behaviors of desert species and better
understand the relationship between weather and our
environment. Special thanks this year goes to the
Mirage Dolphin Habitat, The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
at the Venetian, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum,
Mix 94.1, Clear Channel, Red Rock Pizza and Cox
Communications for donating food and prizes in support
of the 2007 Mojave Max Emergence Contest.
More
information is available at www.accesssclarkcounty.com
or www.mojavemax.com.
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