Well, when I retired, I spent- I was not retired a year I accepted a interim position in Los Angeles for 13 months. That led to an interesting situation where we began to- I was approached by La Sierra University to do some work consulting on a possible museum of… Read More
So he’s trying to develop some rapport with the government. So I’ve been involved and we’ve been doing population counts, and I’ve been involved going down to Chile and I’ve done a lot of work in the Arctic. We’ve been working with alcids, and we’ve had scientists from Fairbanks that… Read More
Do you still have your interest in amphibians?… Read More
There are comparisons- If I were to compare the AAZAP with the AZA today, it would be a night and day issue. The early years, when we were associated with parks, we would come into meetings, we were a small group of directors and few curators, not very many curators,… Read More
Is it there yet, are we all happy with it?… Read More
I dunno if all members will ever be happy with it, but that’s part of the process. That’s what executes change. Read More
Has AZA been supportive of zoos do you feel in this arena of maintaining elephants?… Read More
Not enough, and I think really in terms of coming in and wanting to manage your animals, I don’t think that’s the way- I think they should the AZA should provide guidance, collective guidance coming from membership, or even from the board we elect, but I don’t think it’s necessary… Read More
How does the AZA of today that you’ve been associated with compare to the AAZPA, the beginning organization of 30 years ago?… Read More
What’s your view regarding the hot topic of zoos maintaining elephants in their collections?… Read More
Elephants are a zoo director’s nightmare in general. They’re large animals. They’re destructive. They can be dangerous. Yet they’re the most popular animals that the zoo has. And I think a zoo, if a zoo wants to, first of all, like all other animals that it maintains in houses, it… Read More
That’s why I looked for expansion in our elephant- We had five elephants living in an area that really was designed for one, and I went to the voters with that and I was able to get that turned around. It took some doing, but we were able to expand… Read More
Again, my experience has been with only, my work experience has been with, actually, it has been over my lifetime with three zoos, but the two major zoos in recent years of course have been Cincinnati, the longest span and a short span in LA, and both zoos, I felt… Read More
-American Zoo Association should be addressing now?… Read More
I think the American Zoo Association has to again, look at the broad picture and see ways of turning voter apathy in some way, without necessarily lobbying. I think that can be done through educative programs and through the communities that they’re working with, volunteer base so that the zoos… Read More
If there was an opportunity to form a consortium with a few select zoos to work with the country, to rescue a species and begin to institute breeding programs, what would you do differently from what was done to try and save the Sumatran rhino?… Read More
If there was an opportunity to work with a consortium to save a highly endangered species, I would try to be involved with some of the major zoos simply because they have the resources obviously to help in a large project, and a large project like the Sumatran rhino is… Read More
We didn’t fail except on the fact that Indonesia kind of pulled the rug from out underneath. We were supposed to obviously have more animals for that base, and we were building traps and they were logging right next to our traps. So there wasn’t much concern about- Once they… Read More
How can zoos improve their connection with this market to make zoos more relevant?… Read More
Any advice for the neophyte zoo director about the importance of marketing zoos?… Read More