Interview 22877 – Caption Index: 298
What was your management style?… Read More
What was your management style?… Read More
Five or six years, maybe more than that, since I started, since I retired, so. And Pat’s long gone. You had all these people who were working for you as curator of large mammals, or when you were general curator. Read More
I don’t think I’ve ever really thought of it as a management style. You know, you just listen, you listen to people and see what their problems are and try to fix their problems. And if you can’t, you can’t. You tell ’em why. Can’t say it’s always successful, but. Read More
They have, the conservation department is in the Society, yeah. They provide funds for keepers, for Milwaukee County employees to do conservation projects. Pat the Cat is a project that’s been going on for a number of years, ’cause this is when, but with Boese’s work with Runaway Creek, he… Read More
Every school in Belize had copies of “Pat the Cat.” And so that’s taken on a life of its own. And the profits from the book helped the keepers go down and work with the keepers at the Belize Zoo every January. The registrar has been down and work with,… Read More
So that’s been going on for, what, five years now?… Read More
I mean, the county, the Milwaukee Public Museum became a private entity separated from the county. And when they did that, the employees could choose either to stay county employees or go work with the Society, but they still worked at the museum. So that whole thing was tough too. Read More
Are they still in charge of conservation?… Read More
I don’t think the Society has the base, financial base to do it alone. So they just need to keep working on getting the governing bodies, so they’re connected. As a society, the Society still runs the education department and the Society does all the graphics for the zoo and…… Read More
In your opinion, does that kind of relationship work or was there built-in issues that would naturally occur that if they could do it a different way?… Read More
It’s usually they’re in city parks and they’re, a lot of kids there only exposure to animals. And they don’t necessarily need to have, you know, lions and tigers and most of the smaller zoos don’t. They have a bobcat or bears or something like that. And they have sensory… Read More
Well, what the result of that whole controversy of the 1990s is that for the first time in almost a hundred years, there was a written agreement between the Society and the zoo as to what was the responsibility of the county, what was the responsibilities of the Society. I… Read More
What are those benefits?… Read More
So yes, everybody has animal escapes. At one time you spoke to the Wildwood Park Zoo Society at their annual meeting. Yep. And. In Marshfield. You spoke about the benefits of a small city zoo. Mm-hmm. Read More
Well, Wisconsin, we used to have a Wisconsin Zoo Association. There’s a lot of small municipal zoos. At one time there were a lot of small, most small communities had a zoo. And I think it’s, that’s Marshfield, yeah. I think Wildwood Park Zoo’s in Marshfield, Wisconsin. And I remember… Read More
I did have once, our first, was it our first?… Read More
We did animal escape drills on a regular basis. And it was always fun ’cause the keeper from the hospital or one of the keepers was designated as the escapee. I remember once I used it, I’d been trying to get something fixed in the Lion House for forever. And… Read More
First or second behind the scenes weekend at the zoo, they started opening up some of the back areas at the Milwaukee Zoo. And we had a cheetah that sort of shinnied up the outdoor exhibit between tree that had grown and was on the roof of the Lion House… Read More
You never had an escape in Milwaukee that you had to get involved with?… Read More
Oh yeah, no, we had- for your expertise?… Read More