Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 607
I don’t have an interest in it. If you don’t remember me, you don’t remember me. I know what I did and what I accomplished and I have to make myself happy. Read More
I don’t have an interest in it. If you don’t remember me, you don’t remember me. I know what I did and what I accomplished and I have to make myself happy. Read More
One thing my wife has always told me, she goes, why don’t you promote yourself?… Read More
You’re gonna think, this is weird. Read More
Last question. How would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More
But I was lucky in that I was taught that, you know, when I had a trap line, whether it be muskrat, raccoon, mink, what?… Read More
And that’s the sad thing when I talked about what’s convenient, not convenient for the new generations to do to support conservation, but I’ve always had that commitment. I, I grew up with that. But I’m lucky. I grew up, I trapped, I hunted, I did those type of things. Read More
And never did beaver. ’cause the beaver were almost gone in Indiana when I grew up. But you did it sustainably and you didn’t go in and, and in one month trap out a whole area. You just don’t do that type of thing. So I grew up with that,… Read More
So one question is what do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
I asked myself, you know, I’ve always been involved with it because I, I felt an obligation or stewardship to try to support wildlife in the environment. That’s why I’m in it. Obviously we didn’t get in it to make money because most zoo people don’t make a lot. Well,… Read More
That’s the kind of person I look for and that’s the kind of person I support. We talked about this profession. Read More
And so the, if the commitment’s there, they’re looking at what do I do to set up for long-term when I’m not there?… Read More
Well, if, if they’re smart, like that individual is who also owns a place in Texas, they set up a foundation or a trust, and that trust is investment money. And you don’t touch the trust, but the income it earns is what goes to cover the operations an endowment,… Read More
So it in a sense, it’s not your money, it’s their money. And you know what, they’re gonna figure out how to make that money come in and they’re gonna know that if they mistreat their animals, if they’re, if they have a lot of dying animals and their exhibits… Read More
When that individual is no longer around, what happens to it?… Read More
If you’re, you know, municipality, zoo, you get your money from the city as well as, you know, through your gate possibly, or like Lincoln Parks free still to get in, right?… Read More
Are they big zoos?… Read More
San Diego, Lincoln Park, Brookfield, New York. No, they’re not big zoos. They’re smaller zoos and their clientele are, tend to be more local or maybe tourist run. But I think if they’re not legislated outta business, I think they’ll survive because they made a commitment. It’s markets, it’s their… Read More
Yeah, it does, but there’s a lot of, there’s a number of successful private zoos. Read More
Does that impact some of their decisions on what they may exhibit or how they exhibit?… Read More
I think there’s a lot of private zoos that are surviving because they’re, they’re run as, although I’ve said a zoos of business, they’re run as a for-profit business. Read More