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Honor your Family and Loved Ones with a Legacy Leaf!

Commemorate an occasion, celebrate a special person, make it a holiday gift or simply show your family’s love for the Folsom Zoo Sanctuary. By making a donation of $50 you not ...

Bernie From Burney

Bernie From Burney Falls State Park Created more than a million years ago MacArthur–Burney Memorial Falls California State Park is far from the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary but there’s a ...

Moving To The Miner’s Cabin

Note:  All animals listed in this older article have passed away. In The Past – June 2001: “Moving To The Miner’s Cabin. Forty-niners (gold seekers, not football players) invited small, ...

Growl, Howl & Wine Tickets Now on Sale!

Growl, Howl & Wine returns for another year to support the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary (FCZS), which is a educational Sanctuary open to the public.  Last years event was enjoyed ...

Some Pig

Note: We lost Wilbur in 2017 and we lost Templeton in 2020 both due to age related illnesses. Feral pigs throughout California are considered a nuisance to many people, a ...

Snakes!

Recently Zoo Staff gathered together at City Hall for more than an hour of insightful information about rattlesnakes provided by Mike Cardwell who volunteers his expertise at Effe Yeaw Nature ...

Cat & Bear

Note:  We lost our older bears, Sequoia and Tahoe, in 2021 due to age related issues.  We lost our beloved feral cat, Little Bear, in 2023. Some years ago a ...

Rain!

After several years of drought, and thoughtfully hand-watering Zoo plants and maintaining animal water ponds at low levels, El Nino has greened-up California and piled up snow that will hopefully ...

Lily Inside

Popular tortoise Lily is inside for the winter. A current Zoo exhibit sign explains that while her wild relatives are burrowed down in the cold Mohave and Sonora deserts, Lily ...

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