I think so, I think so. Like I said, I was not doing it while I was there, so I don’t know for sure, but I believe it has or they wouldn’t be bringing it back. I mean, we did butterfly garden while I was there, which was extremely well-received. Read More
Was that a permanent exhibit at the time?… Read More
at the time, yeah, mm hm. I mean, because we closed in the summer, it was never open in the summer anyway but, and then we put hum hummingbirds into it. Peterson Minsky got us hummingbirds and it was, and that just added another, I mean, it was just one… Read More
What was the vision or how were you thinking about that with the Living Desert?… Read More
Well, because we were in the situation where we were not an old zoo that might need to tear something down in general, though, we did a little bit of tearing down periodically, of course, but we still had so much of our master plan to do and still did… Read More
How effective have camel rides been for you and is that changing the dynamics of the Living Desert or part of moving through the vision?… Read More
Actually, they started camel rides just as I was leaving. I didn’t disagree with the concept, frankly, because I think I am of the old school. I have no problem naming an animal because you have to connect people and they don’t connect with animal 2276. They connect with Reno,… Read More
How supportive were zoos and aquariums with this initiative and what’d you learn from this experience?… Read More
Well, I was part of the start of that. I mean, by 2008, I had finished my role in WAZA, but I think a lot of the zoos stepped up. As we talked about it, all of us, of all the life forms, I mean, they’re both hard and easy. Read More
I just happened to be in WAZA at that moment in time when that hit, and glad to be part of the start of it, but can’t take any kinda credit for it. They say that zoos have to keep growing and changing and attracting people for some, to bring… Read More
To this day, they’re still doing that. So, for me to have focused specifically on, somebody leaves that they really care about Arabian Oryx, I just, I want the broader concept that they at least would understand that in the world’s deserts there is life and it’s interesting, fascinating, and… Read More
This stuff is all on a desert?… Read More
Oh my goodness, so much.” And that was the bottom line for us and that we can say we accomplish. In 2008 as president of WAZA, the World Zoo Association, you called on the public to assist in helping save the world’s amphibians. Read More
Why?… Read More
I just listened two weeks ago to a CNN program called Anthony Bourdain’s and he was in Vegas. And he does these rather thoughtful programs on parts of the world generally centered around the food, but and which in this program, they’re talking about the fact that they’re doing water… Read More
Why preserve it, why protect it, why even care about it?… Read More
Is there a way to gauge it?… Read More
We never really used a lot of energy on that. We probably should have, but we didn’t to be honest with you. Read More
We felt like, my bottom line from the day one from when I started there and when I was even at the national park as a ranger was if the visitor left with the reality of nothing more than, “Oh my gosh, there really is stuff on a desert,” then… Read More
As you were building, you added an endangered species of a gazelle, you added a picnic area, children’s play park, what was the idea about these additions?… Read More