Absolutely. I would like to visit with that young person a little bit more, though, to make certain that their focus, that it would be a satisfying career or satisfying opportunity for them. Some folks interested in fish and wildlife careers, maybe wanna more, do more field work, wanna do… Read More
And why would you?… Read More
Okay. Would you recommend the zoo and aquarium field to a young person with sincere interest in wildlife conservation today?… Read More
And, you know, he considered me one of his heroes, but he was one of my heroes, Mr. Smith, my heroes in peace, you know, and a negative kind of thing is the guy who was the zoo director before me in Indiana, I kind of learned what not to… Read More
Well, Earl Wells, may he rest in peace was one of my mentors. He also helped lend me the gig in, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a wonderful mentor. You know, he was probably the most impactful mentor that I had. My biology teacher in high school, Mr. Smith, may… Read More
Oh, Who were your Mentors?… Read More
And, and he, he was right. You know, be really, really smart about it. But, you know, but I think the biggest was that as the zoo guy, the zoo director, I was the keeper of the dream. Now you’ve had, in, in your career, you’ve had mentors. Read More
What lessons did you take away from some of them?… Read More
What are we trying to do today and what do we wanna do tomorrow?… Read More
What is the dream for the children’s zoo into the future?… Read More
I’m the, because the zoo was founded by a very wonderful person, aren’t it Folsom, who, who had a dream of creating a wonderful place to engage children in the natural world. And then I became a successor of that dream in 1986, and it was my responsibility to carry… Read More
Career, years and years and years ago, I think it was at the Children’s Zoo Symposium in Philadelphia, probably 30, 35 years ago when somebody said, an interpreter said, as the zoo director, you’re the keeper of the dream. I went, the keeper of the dream keeper, the dream for… Read More
What, what was potentially the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
I think the Lincoln Children’s Zoo does a pretty good job too. Read More
The simple little zoo. It was such an inspiration for me as a young zoo manager, that going, gosh, you don’t have to build big multi-billion dollar areas. You can select species, help save them, utilizing the resources. It doesn’t have to be great big, you can still engage the… Read More
Are there zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Why do you, why and where are they?… Read More
You know, years and years and years and years ago, back in the early eighties, part of my inspiration to get into the zoo world was one, Gerald Durrell, who built the Jersey Zoo on the allo jersey in the English Channel. Okay. It became a Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Read More
We can be great at getting the word out about saving the natural world. Mention zoos. Read More
So I’m very, very proud of the photo arc that the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, we said yes. We said yes. And he has got that message out now internationally, Lincoln Children’s Zoo animals have been, have been projected on the Vatican, the Hague, the UN building in New York, all… Read More