A handful of demonstrators were on scene at the American West Heritage Center on Thursday to protest Baby Animal Days and Yellowstone Bear World after the event garnered attention from the Utah Animal Rights Coalition and PETA.
Heritage Center management seemed to give a sigh of relief when the protests, and the event, went off without a hitch after receiving three weeksâ worth of email correspondence â nearly 60,000 emails by PETAâs count â from all over the United States.
âAt first, it was a little bit unnerving for our staff,â said Mic Bowen, the executive director of the Heritage Center, explaining many of the staff members are volunteers, âbut after a while we realized ⦠itâs OK, this is just kind of the nature of these kinds of campaigns.â