A renewed zoo, with help from Fossilcrete

Fossilcrete teamed with Frank Lewis’
Decorative Concrete Series to offer a
course that had participants redesign
parts of the Orange County Zoo. This special three-day training session
offered hands-on instruction for
replicating natural items such as rocks,
boulders, and trees using FossilCrete’s
vertical stamping material. With input
from the Orange County Zoo and its
director, Forest DeSpaine, designs were
sketched that emulated the natural landscape
throughout the zoo. The Fossil-
Crete training course utilized framing
and stamping techniques that provided
structure and texture. Natural-looking
colors were created using FossilCrete’s
Nature’s Palette Coloring System.
With the help of FossilCrete’s vertical
stamping material, an ordinary
utility pole was turned into a naturallooking
oak tree, and a mountain lion
exhibit was transformed from a cedar
shingle wall into a naturalistic desert
rock wall.
FossilCrete, a division of Shasta Industries,
recently moved its corporate
headquarters to Phoenix, Ariz., from
Oklahoma.
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