The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-29
Elimination OF
Zoo Ordered;
Roads Cut Out
MONTEVIDEO TO GET
ANIMALS; ENTRANCE
TO BE CHANGED

The small zoo in Ramsey
state park will be removed
and the animals disposed of,
as one of many changes an
nounced this week by Harold
Lathrop, director of the divi-
sion of state parks.
"The unsanitary and inhu-
name aspects of this PROPOSE
tion," were given as reasons
for the removal.
Gordon Fredine, federal
biological survey worker, told
members of the Ramsey park
board that the small animals
should be housed in much larger
quarters equipped with running
water for cleaning and furnished
with steam heat, when here
with Mr.. Lathrop and DR.. w. l..
Strunk, state park commissioner,
last week.
Answering statements that the
law requires only shade facilities
for captive animals, Redwood
Falls park board members indi-
Gated they would take the biolo-
gical survey mans word on re-
quirements.
Lyle Tweet, game warden at
Montevideo, was in Redwood
Falls last Thursday night arrang-
nc m foIn fhn oniY1oo1c ~
Montevideo for the city park
there. The zoo includes two VOL
YES, two badgers, four raccoon,
two monkeys and some Canadian
geese. Tweet will take some or
all of them to Montevideo this
week.
Lathrop outlined park plans in
a letter to Mayor j. c. Budik this
week.
Road changes contemplated will
involve the securement of right
of-way for a new west park en-
trance by the city of Redwood
Falls. To be located two blocks
west of the present entrance. it
will replace the winding entrance
roadway now in use. A parking
area will be constructed on the
plateau through which the en-
trance road now runs and this
fiat area will be used for picnic
purposes. ..
Arrangements will also be made
to acquire land on the George L.
Hanson tourist cabins site fer a
safer east entrance to the park.
The road through the present
tourist-picnic grounds will be eli
minated entirely and all of the
frame buildings there will be
RACED, to be replaced by a stone
shelter, kitchen and concession
building now under construction
and modern toilet building.
A parking area to be construct
cd near Ramsey Falls will be the
termination of roads through the
southwest section of the park.
The present roads will serve
only as foot trails" Lathrop said,
And such closing of automobile
traffic through this section of the
park (the southwest) will permit
wild life to inhabit this area. 1t
is hoped that the exclusion of au-
tomcbile traffic will make. this
section haven for the deer which
were released and are now rum
ming wild in the valley"
Two or three deer will be NOV
ed here from other parks and kept
in the old deer pasture until new
corral has been built south of the
Hiawatha cabin and west of the
Redwood river. Upon completion
of the new pen, three buffalo and
one or two elk will be put in the
old deer corral and a parking area
will be constructed adjacent to
that.
The old buffalo pasture will be
"rejuvenated," its eroded banks
graded and planted as a rehabili-
tation measure.
"At such time as demand for
tourist camp warrants consider
ation," same will be given for
such improvements as the demand
justifies," Lathrop promised.