User:Dmikesic

Hello and welcome. By was of introduction.... I am a zoologist. I grew up caring for animals, and continue that today as a zoologist for the Navajo Nation. I worked 16 years as a endangered species field zoologist with the Navajo Natural Heritage Program, then transferred to run the Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park (a.k.a. Navajo Nation Zoo) in May 2010. Both parts of my career here have been very rewarding, and absolutely the best jobs that I could imagine for myself. For both of these jobs, I've worked hard and take pride in the accomplishments. And I greatly appreciate my wife Cathy understanding my working long hours and hardly taking days off.

Why am I on Wikipedia? Well, I had 'inherited' the Navajo Nation Zoo's wiki-site after taking this position at the Navajo Zoo. It had been almost a decade since the site had been updated with current information, and a lot had changed in that period. I felt it my obligation to do so in Spring 2018. My intention with Wikipedia was solely to maintain the information on this site, but who knows...I may add a few things here-and-there to other zoological pages.

It should be clearly noted that: according to Wikipedia standards, I am not a un-biased contributor the Navajo Nation Zoo. I have an obvious conflict-of-interest in adding information to the wiki-page for the organization for which I am employed. But, after many years in this role, I figure there is no one else that will be keeping this page with current, accurate information. I am doing this solely to be sure that the Navajo Nation Zoo wiki-site is maintained as accurate; I am not receiving any monetary compensation for doing so.