 Board the train at the Community Building
The first thing you'll see at our dream Zoo will be a rustic two-story Community Building Complex. Here you can browse
in the gift shop and book store before or after your tour.
You will see school groups and scout groups in the meeting hall, where we'll conduct community film and lecture series,
seminars, and training sessions for volunteers and docents.
The building will teem with educational activity. The meeting hall will be divisible into sections for smaller groups.
We'll have a professional reference library for staff and student use. We'll be able to have events in the evening,
something that can't be done today due to security problems.
We've needed this building for a long time. There is no comfortable place at the zoo now where more than ten people
can meet indoors.
Get on board the train at the Community Building and ride through the zoo with us. First you'll have a behind-the-scenes
look at the Zoo's service area - the new log-pole hay barn, the new kitchen, then through the Off Display area, where
we keep breeding stock, animals in quarantine or under veterinary care, and wild animals being rehabilitated.
The train rounds the bend, and you'll see the waters of the Andree Clark Bird Refuge. On your right:
Gibbon Island, with a fine new waterfall for the breeding colony of whitehanded gibbons. And above,
on the rocky hill, are bears. Next: Bear Country
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