[at-l] Front Royal Zoo.

[stephensadams at hotmail.com (Steve Adams)]

Wench,

Reference your post, dated 11-21-03, asking “Any of you know about the zoo 
or wildlife park or whatever it is near Front Royal?”

The National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center is normally closed to 
the public.  It was a U.S. Cavalry Remount Depot, and now has the mission of 
saving wildlife, protecting habitats, and restoring species to the wild.

The Autumn Conservation Festival is an annual event - - October 4 & 5, this 
year.  Reservations are required.  Non-members may attend the Festival by 
purchasing a parking pass for $30 per car, with a maximum of six people per 
car.

You can see the facility, and the staff will take you behind-the-scenes at 
the veterinary hospital and reproductive science laboratories.  The bird 
house displays rare tropical birds.  Keepers are on hand at the hoofstock 
pastures which contain some of the larger animals; Mongolian wild horse, 
maned wolves, scimitar-horned oryx, and Burmese brow-antlered deer.

Their website provides more information:   
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ActivitiesAndEvents/Celebrations/acf/

Steve

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