Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on Gay one, the one you trust, and today it's
Speaker 1: all about wild brow Bob bomp. Well you can hear
Speaker 1: the music in my head anyway. Anyway, from the Sutton Center,
Speaker 1: we have Chad Ellis and Coyleer McCown. How are we
Speaker 1: doing today, folks, pretty bestive? Huh yeah, yeah. First of all,
Speaker 1: Chat tell us a little bit about the suttn Avian
Speaker 1: Research Center. What do we do there? We leave it
Speaker 1: to the birds.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great, great question, Mike. The Sutton Center
Speaker 2: has a forty year history, more than forty years all here,
Speaker 2: and we started out conserving and breeding and placing the
Speaker 2: bald eagle, and that of course took a while, a
Speaker 2: decade or so, and we were successful and so since
Speaker 2: and we've moved on to other conservation programs, both around
Speaker 2: endangered species as well as sort of some community surveys
Speaker 2: and wildlife surveys and field work. So we you know,
Speaker 2: try to make an impact on the on the birds
Speaker 2: that we focus on with that, which have to do
Speaker 2: you know, with wildlife in the prairie.
Speaker 1: So we've got we've got that we're working on right
Speaker 1: now that are really is starting to make some big
Speaker 1: comebacks thanks to the work that's right.
Speaker 2: We uh, we're working on the mass Bob White, which
Speaker 2: you know is a related to the Northern Bob White
Speaker 2: when it goes to a wildlife refuge operated by the
Speaker 2: Fish and Wildlife Service out in Arizona. And then we're
Speaker 2: also working on Atwater's Prairie Chicken, which is related to
Speaker 2: the Greater Prairie Chicken and Lesser Prairie Chicken that a
Speaker 2: lot of people here know of, and it goes down
Speaker 2: to Atwater's Prairie Chicken Refuge outside of Houston, also with
Speaker 2: the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Speaker 1: And now we bring in Kyler because we're going to
Speaker 1: do something to help raise money in order to make
Speaker 1: all this work. Tell us a little bit about yourself,
Speaker 1: Kyler and what you do there with the Sutton.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm the office and Communications administrator and I do
Speaker 3: a lot of the wild Bruce stuff.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a year round job.
Speaker 1: Wild brew of course, this is down in Tulsa. And
Speaker 1: what's the date on that.
Speaker 3: It is August twenty third, It's a Saturday, and it
Speaker 3: is at the our Best Convention Center formerly the Cox
Speaker 3: Business Convention Center, and it will be from five pm
Speaker 3: to eight pm, and you can get in an hour
Speaker 3: early with the VIP patron tickets at four pm to
Speaker 3: get an extra hour of the drinking and food.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well we're doing samples.
Speaker 4: Right, just samples, limited samples.
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, so how many how many different
Speaker 1: vendors do you have that come in here and provide
Speaker 1: samples to all the great people wanting to help do
Speaker 1: things to help out the center.
Speaker 3: We have about forty a little over forty restaurants and breweries,
Speaker 3: so forty of each, Chad, have you.
Speaker 1: Ever made it the full forty?
Speaker 2: Never made it. I've been to the event. It is
Speaker 2: a ton of fun and I can tell you that
Speaker 2: it is a huge operation. There's a committee that we
Speaker 2: work with down in Tulsa that helps set this up
Speaker 2: and Kyler really does a fantastic job of kind of
Speaker 2: spearheading the effort.
Speaker 1: So I understand that we have a couple of special
Speaker 1: brews are the kind of lined up with the two
Speaker 1: projects we're doing with the birds we just mentioned.
Speaker 3: Yes, so we have a new Story Brewing is a
Speaker 3: new brewery in Tulsa that will be doing the brewery
Speaker 3: this year for the Wild Brew the beer, So we're
Speaker 3: going to have the Light Prairie, which is an American
Speaker 3: logger and.
Speaker 4: That's for the Atwater's Prairie Chicken.
Speaker 3: And then we have the Dark which is for the
Speaker 3: mass Bob White and that's a dark Mexican lagger. Cool.
Speaker 1: This is getting more interesting about at the moment. How
Speaker 1: we get tickets for.
Speaker 4: This wildbrew dot Org?
Speaker 1: That easy?
Speaker 4: Yes, chat, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You guys got it all figured out, don't.
Speaker 2: You, well ironed machine?
Speaker 1: My goodness. Well, it's always a fun time and I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for dropping by some tickets. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have some contests, so folks that actually win them
Speaker 1: hopefully bring friends along. So you go to the you
Speaker 1: go to the wild brew dot org website and you
Speaker 1: put in a couple extra orders so that everybody can
Speaker 1: come and it's it's always going to be a good time. Now,
Speaker 1: the research center itself, where are we located here in
Speaker 1: Washington Gap?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have two locations actually there we do know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's the headquarters which has been there the longest. That's
Speaker 2: out there on Gap Road, and that's where we have
Speaker 2: our mass Bob wide operation. And we also have an
Speaker 2: education facility there with some sort of bird ambassadors. These
Speaker 2: are raptors and we've got a kestrel and an owl
Speaker 2: and things like that and take those out to the
Speaker 2: classrooms around the region. We went all the way down
Speaker 2: to Stringtown, Oklahoma a couple of weeks ago, but we
Speaker 2: mainly focus locally. Yeah, sure, and so that's one facility
Speaker 2: that we have, and then across seventy five we have
Speaker 2: another sort of larger facility that's more focused on conservation
Speaker 2: of the of the prairie chicken. And so there's some
Speaker 2: of the enclosures there for the birds and then there's
Speaker 2: some acclamation pins where we try to get them out
Speaker 2: into the field but still sheltered because you know, these
Speaker 2: these birds, they're not like raising livestock. You know, they
Speaker 2: need to know that when they get placed in the wild,
Speaker 2: they need to run away from snakes and they need
Speaker 2: to chase bugs. And this isn't something that just comes,
Speaker 2: you know, straight naturally from them to them. They need
Speaker 2: to sort of learn that before we place them so
Speaker 2: they so they survive.
Speaker 1: Oh indeed, you got you gotta know where you're going,
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And how to get there. Now, Kayla,
Speaker 1: I've seen the education mobile and everything else that goes
Speaker 1: with it out at the County Pair and also at
Speaker 1: sun Best and a few others, people doing their own
Speaker 1: wingspan to see if they got one the size of
Speaker 1: a condor. Not quiet, but anyway, that's been a pretty
Speaker 1: good little marketing tool.
Speaker 4: It definitely has, and that will be at wild as well.
Speaker 3: We'll have the education band and we'll have the wingspan
Speaker 3: where you can stretch your arms out and see how
Speaker 3: big you are compared to a bird. And then we'll
Speaker 3: also have our ambassador birds, a couple of them so
Speaker 3: you can take selfies with them as well.
Speaker 1: Couple them are pretty good size, very well behaved, but
Speaker 1: it's almost like they're part of the show. They know
Speaker 1: what's going on and they can kind of read people
Speaker 1: a little bit too. I don't want to give the
Speaker 1: bird too much credit, but by golly, they sure behave
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 4: If they do.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of trainers that spend a lot
Speaker 2: of time getting to know the birds and yeah, getting
Speaker 2: used to working with them and having them in different
Speaker 2: environments with people.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh man, this is gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So You've got forty different varieties of food and Bruce
Speaker 1: hipples coming up here at wild Brew again. It's August
Speaker 1: twenty third, it's going to be the Harvest Center in Tulsa,
Speaker 1: and you go to Wildbrew dot org and you can
Speaker 1: order as many tickets as you want. Remember that the
Speaker 1: money is going to the Sutton Avian Research Center in
Speaker 1: order to keep the lights on and the great work flowing.
Speaker 1: I know that these days sometimes grant money a little
Speaker 1: hard to come by. I've never known when it's ever
Speaker 1: been easy, but it's always been tough since COVID here
Speaker 1: for nonprofits to really get up and going back to
Speaker 1: where they were. But this is a fun way to
Speaker 1: ensure that you're around for a good time to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to kind of highlight the impact that we make.
Speaker 2: You know, we're the only facility outside of the refuge
Speaker 2: working on the mass Bob Way, the only one, only
Speaker 2: one and for the very chicken, there's four to six
Speaker 2: other facilities in support of that refuge.
Speaker 4: So it's.
Speaker 2: We really are, you know, playing a huge role in
Speaker 2: keeping these species alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does go back to the eagle, the bald
Speaker 1: eagle and another form of an eagle, Don Henley. I
Speaker 1: guess wrote a couple of ice checks in order to
Speaker 1: keep that research going too. That didn't hurt.
Speaker 2: That's right. He was an original supporter and I think
Speaker 2: back in like the two thousands he sent us an
Speaker 2: autographed CD collection for our Silent auction. We don't have
Speaker 2: that in this year's Silent auction, but we'll have some
Speaker 2: other good items.
Speaker 1: Do you have some of the items from the Silent Auction.
Speaker 3: With you today, Cake, Well, we do have our travel auction,
Speaker 3: which we'll have some pretty elaborate trips that's supported through
Speaker 3: am fund fundraising that kind of helps us with that.
Speaker 3: So that will be online and in person, and then
Speaker 3: as far as Silent Auction items, in person, we will
Speaker 3: have tons of photography, framed photography, paintings, different kinds of beer,
Speaker 3: fridges full of beer, kind of a variety.
Speaker 1: For the collector.
Speaker 2: Huh yes, because a beer you can't get here, so
Speaker 2: beer you can't get I like that. People travel, you
Speaker 2: know who are on the committee, and when they go
Speaker 2: somewhere and see a unique six pack, they'll grab in
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 1: Wildbrew dot org that's where you get your ticket. That's
Speaker 1: wildbrew dot Org. August twenty third and that is going
Speaker 1: to be at the our best center in Tulsa, and
Speaker 1: it's all for a great cost. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you both for coming in today and sharing with us today,
Speaker 1: and hope to see you sometime soon before we actually
Speaker 1: open the doors and get things going and get those
Speaker 1: last couple of tickets sold. Usually this sells out pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: gets pretty darn close to it. So let's see if
Speaker 1: we can't, maybe we expand this year.
Speaker 2: Our ticket Our ticket sales are going well, and I
Speaker 2: would say if you're a restaurant or a brewery and
Speaker 2: interested in coming as a vendor, go to that same
Speaker 2: website and you can find where you can register.
Speaker 1: We have information there too. Oh sweet, you never stop
Speaker 1: surprising me. Thanks for being with us today, folks. You
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