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BUILDING BLOCKS: Additions at Henry Vilas Zoo
The additions to Dane County's Henry Vilas Zoo will include bathrooms, handicap-accessible stalls, a family and breastfeeding area and concession area with a slide-up window for sales of ice cream.
PLA bills to get hearings next week
If a pair of bills receives a favorable reception from state lawmakers next week, local governments will be well on their way to being prohibited from attaching mandatory project-labor agreements to public projects.
Madison zoo wraps up biggest project in its history
A zoo in Madison is welcoming twin polar bears as its newest residents to The Arctic Passage, an exhibit that is the biggest project in the Madison zoo's 104-year history.
BUILDING BLOCKS: Arctic Passage at Dane County’s Henry Vilas Zoo
Work on the Henry Vilas Zoo includes designing a complex animal habitat for polar and grizzly bears.
BUILDING BLOCKS: Arctic Passage at Henry Vilas Zoo
The Arctic Passage will simulate the habitats of the various animals on exhibit.
Specialty space for all the animals
George the Rhino never was going to fit in the Henry Vilas Zoo’s old 224-square-foot animal health center.
$2.4M animal health center opens at Madison zoo
The Henry Vilas Zoo has leapt ahead of others in animal health care with a new $2.4 million center that includes technology rarely seen at smaller zoos and that will allow the zoo to bring in more exotic species, zoo officials said.
New at the zoo
[caption id="attachment_57951" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Nate Fose of Hooper Corp., Madison, replaces soil after installing a waterline Tuesday at the construction site of the Children's Zoo Barn at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison. The 4,300-square-foot project headed by National Construction Inc., Blue Mounds, is expected to be completed in December and open to the public in early[...]
New children’s barn a ‘capitol’ idea
By Jan Basina There soon will be a place at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison dedicated to all things children. Thanks to a donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, […]
New children’s barn a ‘capitol’ idea
By Jan Basina There soon will be a place at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison dedicated to all things children. Thanks to a donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, […]
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