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ROW 8 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
Granger holds no accreditation because it holds no zoo; the boundary course is this: first accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 1987, and continuously since — the AZA's inaugural Quarter Century Award roll (announced 6 January 2016) lists “Potawatomi Zoo 1987” among facilities accredited twenty-five years or more without break. The run was not always comfortable: executive director Josh Sisk told the county Hotel-Motel Tax Board on 22 January 2020 that “the zoo barely received accreditation at the last review in 2014,” and counted it then as one of 216 accredited institutions in the nation; the fall 2019 renewal came as a gold-star result in the zoo's own telling. The current grant is dated exactly — granted 17 September 2025, “valid for another five years,” the zoo's Fall 2025 magazine and the AZA's September 2025 Tampa results agreeing — and the AZA's current list, read November 2026, carries the zoo accredited through September 2030. No rank of the checklist's “thirteenth-zoo” pattern appears in this zoo's record reached, and none is invented.
Sources:
- South Bend zoo file, article “Accreditation” — Fall 2025 Uproar; AZA September 2025 results; Hotel-Motel Tax Board minutes, 22 January 2020.
- AZA, Quarter Century Award announcement, 6 January 2016, and accredited-institutions list read November 2026 (aza.org).