If they’re strong in animal or strong in marketing or strong in PR, that’s all great, you go back to that, you know, when things settle down. But you’ve gotta have the ability to be able to cast back and forth across today’s environment to see what’s going on and… Read More
There’s no time to sit here, and wring your hands, and worry about it. And I took that as a compliment, you know, that yeah, there’s some things you’re faced with, you can meltdown later but you know, at the time you’ve gotta manage it. So that’s kind of built… Read More
What skillset does a zoo director need today as compared to when you started?… Read More
It’s like, where are we, what do we gotta, how do we have to resolve this?… Read More
Good question. I think my experience in the business in San Diego really helped me understand the industry and understand, you know, how it runs. And with that comes the ability to not be afraid of challenges that come forward. ‘Cause every day you’re gonna have something to deal with,… Read More
So I think my experience in San Diego helped me understand the importance of that. And the challenges that I’ve had throughout my career, mostly based around collection, required you to have a steady hand at the throttle and not get thrown off course regardless of what the issue may… Read More
What made you a good director?… Read More
And we display bears. These are either rescue bears or rehab bears. They’re not bears that we went out in the wild and brought in. These are bears that have been dumpster bears as they call ’em or whatever it is. And so we’re supporting it that way. You know,… Read More
And yes, we’ve got a lot of issues in Florida with bears and interaction with humans and how does that fit?… Read More
It isn’t just a one-off like, oh, bears, yeah, well, who cares?… Read More
No, no. Bears are important in Florida. Read More
Now, we gotta be a little bit careful about that, but since we’re so strong in bear management, they’ll come to us and say, what’s your feeling on this?… Read More
You know, and we’ll say without any hesitation where we fit on bear management, culling, so on, and so forth in state. And that’s because our mission is strong and we can prove it through our actions. Read More
Where do we stand legislatively on a new bear-hunting policy?… Read More
Well, okay, iconic species in Florida, but actually, it does meet our mission because we assist in using Florida Fish and Game and U.S. Fish and Wildlife in some senses in helping them discern how a bear was found dead. We’ll do the post, we’ll intercede, no cost to anybody. Read More
You know, we get into some other species, you know, why do we have bears?… Read More
Is that meeting the mission?… Read More
Where does all this end?… Read More
What is the, you know, the meat on the bones, so to speak. So manatees is a classic. I mean it meets all the mission, check all the boxes off. It meets it perfectly. Read More
I should be able to tell you without faltering one bit. And if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t, you know, and we can’t have too many, we’re not meeting our missions issues without us really having some problems. That goes for any zoo. I think the shorter the mission, the… Read More