According to the link below (if you scroll down to the bottom) this Rocky Mountain goat exhibit and the zoo's black bear exhibit will both eventually be completely renovated as part of the 20-year master plan. The newly created large space will then be used as a flexible, rotational zone for gray wolves, black bears and cougars. It will be interesting to see if it ever occurs.
I think it's a terrible idea, but it is so far off into the mists of the future that I'm not too worried about it happening. This is a brilliant exhibit that would be severely compromised by turning it into a variation on Pt. Defiance's generic rotational "Asian Forest Sanctuary" cages.
I think it's a terrible idea, but it is so far off into the mists of the future that I'm not too worried about it happening. This is a brilliant exhibit that would be severely compromised by turning it into a variation on Pt. Defiance's generic rotational "Asian Forest Sanctuary" cages.
I wonder if they will avoid dismantling their sea lion and sea otter complex also? That seems like quite a bizarre decision given the popularity of these species.
I wonder if they will avoid dismantling their sea lion and sea otter complex also? That seems like quite a bizarre decision given the popularity of these species.
Steller Cove will be the new humboldt penguin and tapir/mixed monkey habitats. The plans for the Zoo look grandiose online. If they are actually built, time will tell. I do like the idea of the flex habitats between bear/wolf/cougar. Should keep them active and busy.
Steller Cove will be the new humboldt penguin and tapir/mixed monkey habitats. The plans for the Zoo look grandiose online. If they are actually built, time will tell. I do like the idea of the flex habitats between bear/wolf/cougar. Should keep them active and busy.
It's not hard to be "grandiose" when a zoo is handed $125 million by the voters of your city to re-build the place. That said, the bond-funded components of the Master Plan will not come close to "completing" this 20+ year plan. The projects slated for the back end of the plan (including the flex habitats and the demolition of Steller Cove and building of the South American habitats) will require an adherence to a master plan that is--as far as I know--unprecedented in the history of zoos!
