So we had a 12-acre lake. We also cleared a lotta the cedar trees. We cleared an area that would be good enough for our barns and paddock areas. The finances weren’t available to take it beyond that, but we did harvest some of the cedar and use it for structures in the zoo. And the reptile department began releasing captive-hatched alligator snapping turtles in the lake. And to this day, they still survive there. So there’s hopefully a breeding program for alligator snappers which are endangered both in Missouri and Illinois. But the rest of the farm has never been developed beyond that.
