Interview 3934 – Caption Index: 229
Camp out. I mean, we provide the tents. It was like a little safari camp ground. Read More
Camp out. I mean, we provide the tents. It was like a little safari camp ground. Read More
And that proved to be successful?… Read More
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Read More
Lotta money?… Read More
Families, children, whatever. Some are just kids, some are family. We have family ones, we have kids ones, we have adult ones. Read More
Where people will camp out?… Read More
Actually, in our desert, the evenings in which anybody would ever want to come to the park time of day is just as hot as the day because the day just gets hotter and it doesn’t cool off. Sometimes it never cools off, but it doesn’t cool off out there… Read More
So, you do evening programs- But not very many because it just wasn’t well received and it was still too hot. Now they do some, but we do camp outs at the zoo program. Just like, I saw some of our colleagues doing these camp in the zoo things and… Read More
For families, children?… Read More
Is the government program still in operation?… Read More
No, no. They backed out of it many years ago and they actually, another organization was built down there that, called the Desert Big Horn Society and they built their own facilities for research purposes down the road. And at that point, our herd became an exhibit herd for fish… Read More
Did you think about doing evening programs or was it more conducive?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
How successful was that program?… Read More
Well, we raised, they got us initially a ram and three yews and like all good hoofstock, you put them together and you give ’em halfway reasonable food and containment and they’re gonna make little hoofstock. And so, every year we had big horn babies and most of those survived,… Read More
So, I would wind up on TV, but not in a big activist role because my board didn’t want us to be an activist organization. So, I painted us as a place where everybody could come and learn about the desert that the developers could come and learn if they… Read More
You were well received by the press?… Read More
Yes. Yeah, they liked us. There wasn’t much talk about out in the desert in those days. So yeah, we had a baby big horn born. That was good for quite a bit, or kids coming to the park or whatever. I mean, you mentioned the baby big horn being… Read More
That was part of that government program?… Read More
Did you have a marketing strategy?… Read More