MYZOO FOR MEMBERS OF WOODLAND PARK ZOO FALL 2013 COEXISTING WITH CARNIVORES POSTER PULLOUT: JAGUAR CUB ON THE PROWL! THE POWER OF BUYING LOCAL MYZOO SUMMER 2013 DEAR MEMBERS, Becoming a zoo member, or renewing your membership, is like casting a “yes” vote for the ON THE COVER value this remarkable community asset brings to families and to our region. Did you know You can find gray wolves LETTER that memberships and other forms of earned revenue account for 55 percent of the zoo’s on the Northern Trail Ryan Hawk, WPZ revenue base? Fourteen percent comes from private grants and philanthropy, while 31 FROM THE percent comes from city and county funding. PRESIDENT Woodland Park Zoo relies on these funding sources to create positive community impact, WOODLAND PARK ZOO’S engage more people in our mission, and consistently raise the bar of our performance. FIELD CONSERVATION That means you and your family get more ways to connect to inspiring animals. Our DEPARTMENT UpdATE Matt Hagan animals get increasingly innovative, species-specific care. Kids of all ages get fun and CONTENTS Dr. Robert Long is joining the zoo as Senior engaging ways to deepen their learning of science and nature. And we all get to participate Conservation Fellow. Focusing on Pacific COEXISTING WITH CARNIVORES meaningfully in saving our world’s wildlife, whether it’s endangered tigers, elephants, The next generation of science learning ..............................4 gorillas, and penguins or native Northwest bears, wolves, turtles, and frogs. Northwest carnivores within the zoo’s new Living Northwest program, Robert is hitting THE POWER OF BUYING LOCAL .........................8 A good zoo makes sure everyone in the community can enjoy the wonders of wildlife. the ground running with a wolverine survey FAMILY STEWARDSHIP AT WOODLAND PARK ZOO Each year more diverse kids and families are doing just that. In 2012 alone, our School- project in the North Cascades in collabora- Kids leading the way! ........................................10 to-Zoo program and Community Access Program brought 26,000 students, teachers and tion with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific chaperones from low-income schools, and helped human services organizations bring REDUCING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT more than 34,000 people to the zoo. Northwest Research Station. CO2 offset with Forterra’s C3 program .............................12 When we deliver on our mission well, the benefits reverberate throughout the community Robert brings more than 20 years of BABY BOOM 2013 .....................................13 as a whole. Since 2002, when the nonprofit Zoo Society took over operations on a 20- experience studying a variety of mam- YOUR BACKYARD IN AUTUMN ..........................14 year management agreement with the City of Seattle, your zoo has generated more than mals and birds. He recently coordinated JAGUAR CUB POSTER PULL OUT ........................16 $800,000,000 in economic benefits to residents and businesses in the Puget Sound region. wildlife monitoring and carnivore sur- JAGUAR Cubs’ PERSONALITIES FAR OUTWEIGH These achievements belong to you. Our membership of 40,000 households, one of the veys in Washington for Montana State THEIR TINY FRAMES ....................................18 highest of Seattle’s cultural institutions, has been instrumental in making all this possible. University’s Western Transportation As a zoo leader and as a citizen of our Great Northwest, I thank you! Institute. One aspect of this work GO BEHIND THE SCENES: ARCTIC FOX ...................20 involved wildlife monitoring along I-90 Sincerely, WE KNOW WHAT BEARS LIKE. .22 at Snoqualmie Pass, where Washington State Department of Transportation is THANK YOU, ZOO .....................................25 constructing wildlife crossing structures CLASSES AND CAMPS ..................................26 to help enhance wildlife connectivity in MYZOO KIDS the face of increasing highway traffic. Pacific Northwest animals in your backyard! ..........................28 Deborah B. Jensen, Ph.D. President and CEO WOODLAND PARK ZOO Deborah B. Jensen Ph.D. BOARD MEMBERS ZOO HOURS MyZoo Fall 2013. Volume 15. Issue 3. OUR MISSION: FIND US ON Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA 601 NORTH 59TH STREET President and CEO Linda Allen Glenn Kawasaki Bryan Slinker General Information: 206.548.2500 Membership Department Bruce Bohmke Rick Alvord Cammi Libby Gretchen Sorensen SPRING/SUMMER and Address Changes: 206.548.2400, [email protected] SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98103 WOODLAND PARK ZOO SAVES Editor in Chief: Laura Lockard, [email protected] David S. 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Periodicals postage paid at Seattle WA. www.zoo.org Debora Horvath Ron Siegle POSTMASTER send address change to: Immediate Past Chair MyZoo, WPZ 601 N. 59th St. Seattle, WA 98103-5858 All photos are property of Woodland Park Zoo unless otherwise noted. 2 Woodland Park Zoo is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization 3 MYZOO SUMMER 2013 COEXISTING WITH CARNIVORES The next generation of science learning GOING BACK TO SCHOOL is This means that throughout their K-12 Coexisting with Carnivores is a different now than in the past, espe- careers, students need to engage in partnership between the zoo, Issaquah cially for students whose schools have scientific practices, from questioning to Middle School Life Science students and partnered with Woodland Park Zoo for argumentation based on evidence. teachers, and Western Wildlife Outreach science education. The Next Generation (WWO). Prior to the partnership, many Through school partnerships with Wood- Science Standards, published last spring, of the 200 participating students recalled land Park Zoo, students engage in science in emphasize the need for students to under- seeing carnivores in their community, and ways that not only benefit their education, stand science as a way of thinking—not nearly half (49%) of the students’ parents but also have positive impacts on the people just a body of knowledge to memorize. reported personal encounters with large and wildlife in their communities. carnivores while living in Issaquah. Most of these encounters (69%) occurred at home and involved bears getting into garbage. HOW CAN YOU COEXIST WITH CARNIVORES? With knowledge of local carnivore When asked how to reduce conflict with carnivores, students who par- sightings, the students developed ticipated in the Coexisting with Carnivores program were transformed. investigations to discover how carnivores Below are some student answers before and after the program. and their prey use their community and—based on their research—pre- BEFORE THE PROGRAM AFTER THE PROGRAM sented recommendations to Issaquah Don’t go in woods. Travel on trails during daylight. community members regarding ways to peacefully coexist with local wildlife. I would run as fast as I can. Bring the trash bin out on the right day. Avoid looking for them. Hang bird feeders up in the winter. The zoo’s conservation and educational Stay out of the woods. Don’t have dog food outside of the house. outreach expanded to eastern Washing- Not live by the woods. Get a bear safe garbage can. ton this year through collaboration with Live in a place where there Don’t leave food or garbage outside. the zoo’s Living Northwest partner aren’t many animals. Continues on page 6. 4 5 Ryan Hawk, WPZ MYZOO SUMMER 2013 PUMPKIN DASH PUMPKIN Western Wildlife Outreach. The effort, anticipated that in future years, WPZ’s understanding with others is an important dubbed “Project WOLFF” (Wildlife new Senior Conservation Scientist, Robert scientific practice identified by the Next Observational Learning and Fieldwork Long, will work with classes on carnivore Generation Science Standards that also FUN RUN BASH Fundamentals) began in Cle Elum schools education and monitoring techniques. benefits the community, including the