Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 222
Can you give us a little, how did this come about and did you have the opportunity to use this boat?… Read More
Can you give us a little, how did this come about and did you have the opportunity to use this boat?… Read More
Well, the director sent Ken Ramirez, myself up to Alaska. He says, I want you to be part of the Sea Otter rescue operation up there. Help ’em out. You know, you guys have good animal handling experience, da da da. So we ultimately worked at the Valdez facility and… Read More
So we had a number of very young pups and Terry Williams, one of the research scientists up there who was running that particular facility and happened to be a good friend, she says, as we’re getting ready to leave, she goes, how many otters do you wanna take with… Read More
I said, geez, I wish, you know. And I told her the situation. She goes, no, we’ve got 22 orphaned otters, we need homes for them. And that’s how we got our first four sea otters. And I was like, wow, fortuitous. And one of ’em actually Shanik was an… Read More
Yeah, yeah. Ultimately I oversaw that when it came to marine mammals, you know, we’re pretty well set. Although in time, you know, well, I should share with you the, the first four sea otters came to us as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. We had this… Read More
So, so were you now responsible for the acquisition of all animals?… Read More
So I’m thinking, okay, where else can we go?… Read More
It went well in actuality. There were only two curators, one of marine mammals, one of fishes, both of whom I had a wonderful working relationship with. We met on a regular basis. I got their input. You know, I I I really lost touch with a lot of the… Read More
I mean, I could go to them at any time and say, Hey, what are we doing here?… Read More
You know, and again, a very healthy relationship and they were able to fill me in and, you know, come to me with special budgetary requirements or requests, excuse me. And it was, again, I was at the senior management table at that point and it, it went really well. Read More
How did your management style work for dealing with a much bigger group of people?… Read More
This was a new position col instituted by the then director. A new director came on in 1994 and you know, for one reason or other he decided that he liked what I was doing and that he knew my background in fishes. And I had been in marine mammals… Read More
Again, how does this promotion happen?… Read More
And I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, we’re okay. We’re okay. We got the RCMP here. But he was very willing to make sure these people didn’t disrupt our operation. So kind of interesting, you know, just a different world. Now in 1995 you get another promotion to director… Read More
Do you have to interview, how does this occur?… Read More
Not up there so much. There was, I think, I’m not sure how many, I know one guy was, he had actually put on a train, a small boat and an outboard motor. And he was going to again, try and get between us and the whales and disrupt our… Read More
And did you also then similarly have to deal with groups that were opposed to this?… Read More
We also had, as I said previously, kind of the wild west mentality when you’re up there. We had one guy with several teeth knocked out. Read More
I’m not sure if he was a hockey player or whatever, but he’d come over here, Hey, you want us to take care of these guys for you?… Read More
So we might target an animal like that and we would go alongside. And then the Inuit had to be the first one to jump out of the boat and try and reach over and grab the pectoral fins of the whale. And right after that person’s in the air,… Read More