Subject: Re: captive spotted owl
Date: Jun 22 12:36:39 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


Thanks for the response, Mike, which should have impressed anyone reading
it with its conviction. Any zoo stating that it "doesn't want to be the
last refuge for a species" has its heart and head in the right place.
There are changes going on in the zoo world, and, as usual, I think
Woodland Park is right at the forefront. Good for you!

MW: >Well you've only put me on the "spot" if I'm "barred" from responding.

Well, I wouldn't want you screeching that I had put you on the horneds of a
dilemma, or burrowing into your paperwork and ignoring me. There was snow
reason to do so, but if you had, I would have felt like a long-eared ass
with my pygmy intellect showing the lack of very great gray matter. I felt
hawkward enough even asking you, and I didn't really want to boreal you
tweeters. But at least you didn't just write "saw-what!"

MW: >Our only remaining problem is how to cut the logging truck in half to
get it into the exhibit.

Now *there's* a great project for Stuart, when he comes back from Norway.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416