Lowry Park Zoo staff and board members scoffed in December when the Association of Zoos and Aquariums suspended its endorsement of Tampa's zoo. Today, top zoo staffers are in Oklahoma City asking the very same group to reinstate its endorsement. They will try to convince the group Lowry Park Zoo has toughened its animal transfer procedures and will embrace the group's program that manages members' populations of selected wildlife. ...more

March 27, 2009

Lex Salisbury's forced resignation as Lowry Park Zoo's president and chief executive hasn't stopped outside scrutiny of the facility or ended his problems within the zoo industry. ...more

December 23, 2008

Lex Salisbury lost his job running Lowry Park Zoo. Now he has resigned from a leadership position of a nonprofit zoo organization after several members said he and another Lowry Park Zoo staff member threatened the integrity of the group. ...more

December 22, 2008

February 1987: Charles "Lex" Salisbury is named supervisor of the Lowry Park Zoo. He is promoted to curator of animals a few months later. ...more

December 19, 2008

For 21 years, Lex Salisbury was the future of Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

December 18, 2008

Lex Salisbury's time at Lowry Park Zoo, February 1987 to date. ...more

December 18, 2008