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The Sacramento Zoo is a zoo located in William Land Park in Sacramento, California. It opened on June 2, 1927, with 40 animals. It opened on June 2, 1927, with 40 animals. At that time, it occupied 4.2 acres (1.7 ha), which remained the case until the early 1960s when the zoo expanded to its current 14.3 acres (5.8 ha).
The Sacramento Zoo, then called the William Land Park Zoo, was established in 1927 with 40 animals and roughly 4 acres of land, according to its site. The zoo was a consolidation of several ...
No. 7: Sacramento opened its Land Park zoo during a truly roaring ’20s. What came next was wild ... “Italian roots run deep in the history of the city of Sacramento,” a City Council member ...
The Sacramento Zoo has offered educational programs since just a few years after its opening in 1927 and has grown those programs substantially in recent decades. More than 50,000 children from ...
Mary Healy (May 14, 1953 – August 7, 2014) was the CEO and director of the Sacramento Zoo. Healy was director of the zoo since December 1999. Her career began as a bird keeper for the Riverbanks Zoo in South Carolina. The Sacramento Business Journal awarded Healy the Women Who Mean Business award in 2013. [citation needed]
Unlike Sacramento, which has a $66 million deficit, Elk Grove has set aside millions for major investments such as the zoo. Jordan said that as a city incorporated just 24 years ago, Elk Grove has ...
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA), is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.
The Elk Grove City Council will meet Wednesday night to decide the next phase of the 97-year-old Sacramento Zoo. Founded in 1927, the zoo has anchored Land Park since the neighborhood’s early days.