Ramona Bass grew up around ranching and conservation in and around San Antonio. She remembers like it was yesterday making her first visit to the Fort Worth Zoo four decades ago.
There was no hiding the neglect that comes with limited resources that had taken its toll over the years.
“I was just pretty horrified by what I saw. It was just sort of a forgotten little old-timey looking zoo with concrete pads and just big cats in tiny, tiny sort of cages,” she says. “I just was horrified.”…