Because you did work for accreditation. Pat felt it was very important. You want your facility to meet the high standards. Even if you’re a little park, even if you’re privately owned, you want your facility to be a first class facility, you want to meet the standards, you want… Read More
Why was it important though to be AZA accredited?… Read More
Or Wide Oak. Or Wide Oak, yeah. Or probably Fossil Rim. Fossil Rim. Read More
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And it won’t work with people like Mickey Olson or Alex Salisbury, we wanna- Or Wide Oak. Read More
Well, the people that were private and the people that were little guys or privately owned facilities or people that just had small collections, some not open to the public, some open to the public, they needed a voice, they needed to be able to communicate together and share information. Read More
Yeah, it started in your office, just you decided or you had a group of people. Yeah, I decided. Well, you were the zoo culturalist and somebody in another group. And you had a meeting at our… In our office at the zoo. And we developed an organization called ZAA… Read More
How did it start?… Read More
How did it start?… Read More
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How did that start?… Read More
It became more and more expensive too. I started VAA instead of AZA, I went to ZAA It’s a big organization now, I started that in my office. Read More
Well, I was AZA member. And accredited. And accredited. Obviously that was quite a challenge. But AZA began to be a bureaucracy organization to tell you where you’re gonna present in your next animal. What was happening in the network of the guys in that clique got to make all… Read More
And how important is it to be active in organizations like this?… Read More
Were you involved with the zoo in AAZPA?… Read More
Somebody’s gotta make the decision, but you need good leadership for that, somebody who has vision and somebody has got be really committed to follow. Read More
Tell me about it. The Zoo Society, one of the problems with it, we had a committee and a committee that designs a horse ends up with a camel, as you know it. Some of the people liked me, some of them didn’t like me. And there was a battle… Read More
And did it change over the years?… Read More
What was your relationship with the Zoo Society?… Read More
Well, you gotta do something that people want to do. If you want to have wine tasting or you want to have mullet fries or you want to get a committee together and have them approach people with money to raise money. But ours zoo was not an non-profit, so… Read More