-- Gene Leo "Some dtrectors may cons~der themselves the one ~ersonwho Oregon lakes in book C d d hrm p. 5 the niche In life it has to cl~ngto In order to surv~ve." Leo has also found that the operatton of a zoo "15 not unlike the operation of a small c~ty."Recently. Leo has been working with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMS11and the Western Forestry Center to omprove a congestedparking situation in the parkmg area shared by the three organlzatlons. "We have such a traffrc and parkfng problem on peak days." says Leo. "It's a great example of an urban planner's dilemma." Directing a roo often has as much to do with people as wlth anlmals, and Leo's alm 1s to get the best out of the 80 lull-time and I50 seasonal employees of Wash~ngtonPark Zw. Debbie Duffield Continued fmm p. 6 researcher who has been abrerv~ng bottlenose dolphins in Floridafor more than a dozen years. Through ~dcnt~fymagnd tracking an unusual chromosome in a rertpln population, Duffleld has hen able to confirm the researcher'stheory that the bottlenose dolph~nsare organized around "a kind of female haerarchy." In another prolect, thtr one bared in Hawaii. Duffield IS hclpmg to re-establ~~ehndangered monk seal populat~ons uffer~ngfrom abnormally hlgh male-to~femaleratlor "We've been checking !he genettcs to make sure we're putting the rtght stock ~n the rtght places," said Duff~eld "ll's ercltlng to t ~ etnlo thore programs because you ieel you are actually tnvolved in the treld work," said the PSU researcher. Although the research Duffield carries out can be somewhat esoteric. she is clearly comm~nedto rharmg what she knows with the public. In fact. she dwmP understand the current mystlque surroundlng wild anemals. "A lot of animal rights groups - they've made tremendous ~nroadsand produced great lcgirlation - but they have this real hands-011anitude. They're trying to treat these antmals as some unusual supernatural bangs. But they're animals! We have to t a k ~ care of them, but we're never going to learn anyth~ngabout them 11we don't Interact." At the same time, she can tell some shock~ngstorter about humans tamperingw ~ t hreal pups, but her patience w ~ t hthe average clttzen runs deep. "The iact that they care IS wonderful. It's just that their care is mtsplaced and they don't understand the b~ologyof the antmal." Dufi~eld blames herself and her colleagues for the lack 01 ~nformation. But prven a platform lfkethe stranding network or an oceanarium, D ~ f f ~ ~ l d can happcly rorrpct this oversight. determines the dire;tion the zoo will take," he says. "But I think the most importantthlng I can do as a director is to get those talented, creative, mot~vatedfolks Into the staff, and then cap~talczeon their efforts so that we're all a team working together." Leo says he feels fortunate in coming to Ponlandwhere "all the division heads are (already) those kinds of folks," addtng, "We tend to see people who are dedicated and are here because they want to be here." Although the zoo has phased out hls fht lob - the current use of admtssions employees makes ticket takers unnecessary - Leo speculates with a chuckle and perhaps a touch of pride that "hopefully today we have a future zoo director out there on the grounds somewhere " A remake of his summer of '67, perhaps Three PSU faculty members are co-authors of a new mference work on Oregon's principal lakes and reservoirs. Damel Johnson, Geography. Richard Petersen, Envwonmentai Sciences and Biology, and D. R~chardLycan, Geography and Urban Studies. jo~nedthree other authors tn producmg the 317-page Aliar of Oregon Lakes, just published by Oregon State Vniverstty Press. The book, expected to enjoy wide readership among such groups as sportsmen, recreational users, agricultural users, conservat~onists and scienttsh, deta~lscurrent lake cond~tionsand prov~desbas~c informat~an on the chemjcal. b~olog~canld geographical characteristics of 202 lakes and reservoirs and their drainage basins. According to Johnson, prevlous eiforh to inventory Oregon's lakes have been p~ecemeaal nd are now outdated. A shared concern lor lake water quality led the co-authors to begin Intensive, four-year research effort see whlch of the state'\ many lake- had been showing water qual~ty decl~nes.Study results basically re~nforcethe notlon that water In Oregon's lakes Ir mostly of very high quality. But tts authors caution that "recent recreat~onaland developmentalpressureshave led to a degradation of several lakes, particularly those with a high d of public vls~b~lity.'' The lake survey was financec the Clean Lakes Program of the federal Env~ronmentalProtectlo Agency IEPAI, Johnsonwas the proiect coordinator, Petersen supelvised the chemical and biological exammations of the lakffi, and Lycan was the cartographer. Soh cover coples of the atlas, ior 517.95, are available in PSU'r Geography Department or at most bookstores in the Portland area Prof, alum collaborate on Portland history book Alumni, foundation members and The 270-page pictortal hlstory of "Partners rn Progress" for the b, other friends of Ponland State are Portland, one of a xries produced by Abbon Ir a professor in the Sch~ inv~tedto celebrate publtcat~onof Caliiornia's Windsor Publ~cations,has Urban and Public Affairs and w Portland, Gateway to the Northwest been sponsored hy the PSU regular column on Portland lrru by PSV historian Carl Abhon, 5-7 Foundattoo, wh~ch rereaver a portion The Daily]ournal oicommerce, p.m., Sept. 12 at the New Market of each sale. Portland Burrness Today. 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