Great. I mean, people loved it because at that point again, there were no other buildings, so it was actually a fairly cool place and they got the point right away that once you could get into the shade, deep shade in the desert, even in the middle of the… Read More
And were the exhibits different, more unusual than anything else in the facility?… Read More
They’re still there. I mean, was obviously additions. They’re a lot like trail system in a national park where there used to be a trail guide. You’d pick up and walk along and read by the numbers. Then we decided that that was just not productive over time. And so,… Read More
And the shortest one is a quarter of a mile out into the wash and back. And they’re used a lot. Read More
How easy was it to develop the Desert Oasis build?… Read More
Yeah, and we couldn’t do anything that didn’t earn some money. (laughs) Couldn’t do that. Had to make a dollar anywhere you turned, so. Read More
You mentioned that awhile back that the Boy Scouts produced trails for you and how successful have the trails been?… Read More
Are there exhibits as you walk around and see them, when you’re walking down the trails, do you need a guide?… Read More
How does that work?… 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