Potter Park Zoo Millage Pt. 1

The Potter Park Zoo is an attraction and learning environment that I've grown up with. Going to school only 15 minutes away from Michigan's capitol city, it was hard to avoid taking field trips to the zoo when growing up. I remember going there at a very young age in elementary school, going there randomly with family and friends, going my senior year of high school for my zoology class, and then again for my latest story I wrote. My memories of the Potter Park Zoo as a kid are grand and filled with all sorts of exciting memories from zoo visits. It wasn't until I recently visited the zoo in Washington D.C. and then came back to the Potter Park Zoo and realized how different they were. I know Washington D.C. is the capitol of our nation is therefore very important, but Lansing is also important as the capitol of Michigan. The Potter Park Zoo was much smaller than I remember it, the animals were few and small-numbered, and there was hardly ever anyone there (minus school groups) the three different times I went in the past week. This depressed me to see the zoo going downhill, but I was striked with a little bit of hope when I saw the Rhino exhibit under construction and being totally redone. This made me happy to see, as it excited me to see they were finally doing something to the zoo to help repair it, thanks to the recent $.41 millage the zoo received.

Ram at the Potter Park Zoo

Cheetah at the Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C.