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Description of Pictures: This was the 45th annual meeting of the Friends of the National Zoo. This was the first in a long time where Clinton Fields, the executive director, wasn't present since he had retired a month or two previously. Jim Schroeder is acting executive director. The 2003 Miriam V Carmack Volunteer of the Year Award was presented to Cynthia Young. Then Lucy Spelman, the Zoo director, gave her usual good review of the state of the Zoo and outlined directions for the future. Among her slides: Under NZP challenges: The Zoo has aging facilities. The 167-acre Zoo is 114 years old while the 3200-acre CRC facility in Front Royal is 75 years old. Funding for facilities has been inadequate over time and federal funding reductions in the 1990's reduced staffing. Also, the animals in the "collection" are aging.
There's a 10-year renewal plan for the Zoo which starts with a major renewal of the oldest facilities and improved maintenance. The slide shows the Kids' Farm due in 2004, Asia Trail I (which occupies the area from the panda pen to the entrance) for 2006, Asia Trail II (which includes the elephant and hippo sections) for 2007, and North Americas Trail for 2009.
Zoo renewal: The Exhibits. Showed renovations like the bald eagle refuge, the small clawed otters, and giant octopus. Also a new exhibit for the blue crab.
Zoo renewal: The Animals. Showed new arrivals for lions, howler monkeys, and eagles. Also expanded breeding of endangered species.
Funding NZP. Showed that 70 percent of funding comes from the federal government, which pays for staff salaries and expenses as well as the facilities capital program. The remaining 30 percent comes from private groups including FONZ, the Smithsonian, nonfederal grants, contracts, and scientific grants. Another slide showed that federal funding for capital has increased from $6 million in 2001 to $18 million in 2003. Private funding is also up with FONZ raising $12 million for the Asia Trail and, in 2003, another $4 million for NZP pr ...More...
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year.
Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah.
Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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