Last week I attended this year’s annual AZA Directors’ Policy Conference to meet with CEOs, and directors from AZA accredited zoos and aquariums across the nation and from around the world. I don’t recall exactly when we began holding this meeting of zoo and aquarium leadership but do ...

Over the next few months, both the zoo and Roosevelt Park are anticipating the start of projects that will transform both for years to come. There have been years of planning, hours of meetings, drawings and revisions, and a lot of sleepless nights that has gotten us to this point. While it ...

I better understand Ozzie and Harriet’s son Ricky Nelson’s Garden Party frustration now. Mine began after hanging a bird feeder on our back patio to tempt yellow finches to pay us a visit. It didn’t take long to discover they are picky eaters who shy away from cheap seed that sparrows ...

A painting by North Dakota artist Scott Nelson of the scene when World War II pilot Maj. Gale “Buck” Cleven’s plane was shot down during World War II hangs in the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s Legends Hangar in Minot. Cleven, who was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, and in later years ...

There are periods when we often hear people talk about how much fun it must be to work at the zoo with all the animals, but this time of year, we don’t hear it as often. Coming off a week of extreme cold weather, I couldn’t be prouder of the zookeeper staff. Over the weekend staff ...

BISMARCK — Kalen Hill of Minot and Lily Effertz of Velva will join University of Mary ensembles in participating in the 51st annual University of Mary Jazz Festival in Bismarck. Hill is a member of the Jazz Combo and rhythm musician in the Jazz Ensemble, and saxophonist Lily Effertz, Velva, ...