Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one though one you trust, it's only really three
Speaker 1: and a half days away.
Speaker 2: We're talking about wild Brew. How are you doing, Daniel.
Speaker 3: Doing all right? Happy to be here?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy to be anywhere, but I'm really going
Speaker 1: to be happy to be down in Tulsa here on
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, because that's wild Brew.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's right.
Speaker 4: This Saturday, the twenty fourth, we're having the greatest party
Speaker 4: ever hashed. It's back in Tulsa at the Cock Convention Center,
Speaker 4: and uh, we're inviting everybody to come out.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a big deal.
Speaker 2: Now, do I understand?
Speaker 1: We have just a little bit, just a few tickets left,
Speaker 1: but wed Schuld like to have it sold out because
Speaker 1: kind of keep the streak going.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, you want to get those tickets beforehand, if
Speaker 4: it all possible, go ahead and get yourself onto wildbrew
Speaker 4: dot org and get those tickets. We have some patron tickets.
Speaker 4: If you want to get there early, you can get
Speaker 4: an early start to the party. And that party, by
Speaker 4: the way, is exactly what we're talking about. Is live music.
Speaker 4: It's going to be all the local breweries from the area.
Speaker 4: We've got an over thirty breweries signed up, forty salon restaurants,
Speaker 4: wine and spirits, which is new. We didn't have as
Speaker 4: many of those in the past. This is going to
Speaker 4: be a new tasting experience for this crowd.
Speaker 2: Well, this is going to be great.
Speaker 1: And of course the money raised goes right back to
Speaker 1: the sutn Avian Research Center and all the great work
Speaker 1: that you've been doing for years, and we'd like to
Speaker 1: see that happen for years to come.
Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely, you're right.
Speaker 4: That money that we're raising for for just coming out
Speaker 4: and having this good time with us, you're gonna get
Speaker 4: to experience a lot, but you're also going to be
Speaker 4: helping to fund wildlife conservation in our state, that science
Speaker 4: and education being done right here in Green Hunter.
Speaker 1: Well, very good. Now, it started off with eagles. That's
Speaker 1: the big story that really put the research.
Speaker 2: Center on the map. Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: It was a couple of decades.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, so this so happens that this is our
Speaker 4: fortieth anniversary at the Sutton Center.
Speaker 3: We got our start forty years ago.
Speaker 4: People may not remember, but eagles were not a common site.
Speaker 4: They didn't nest in Oklahoma at all. It wasn't something
Speaker 4: that people could go out and see. And people said,
Speaker 4: you know what, I liked this part of our environment.
Speaker 4: This is our national symbol. We should have that here
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma again. And so they invited us to come
Speaker 4: start this project. And what do you know. Now we've
Speaker 4: got eagles on all our major waterways and then they're
Speaker 4: spreading even further. It just goes to show when people
Speaker 4: care about a project, we can make a change, we
Speaker 4: can make a difference.
Speaker 1: And right now we're preserving a variety of different to
Speaker 1: avian life.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: We've got two more endangered species. We're hoping to do
Speaker 4: the same thing we did with our eagles. We got
Speaker 4: the eagles off of the endangered species list, so now
Speaker 4: we've got two other species. They said, hey, you know
Speaker 4: what you did so good with eagles, why don't you
Speaker 4: do the same thing for these prairie chickens. We've got
Speaker 4: the Atwater's prairie chickens and a species of quail, the
Speaker 4: mass bob white quail. And that's just our endangered species work.
Speaker 4: We're also doing environmental work in other aspects. Helping farmers
Speaker 4: better utilize their land so that it's not impacting low
Speaker 4: flying grouse, helping to keep track of the species, even
Speaker 4: the common birds. Every bird matters, the common birds need
Speaker 4: to stay common. So we're doing an atlas essentially, a
Speaker 4: breeding bird at list for birds that come and nest
Speaker 4: here in Oklahoma, and then a wintering bird at list
Speaker 4: for those that stay over the winter.
Speaker 2: My goodness sake, that's a lot of cataloging.
Speaker 3: It is a lot of cataloging.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it takes a lot of work.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of man hours, and that's why we
Speaker 4: need your support to help keep these projects running.
Speaker 1: Now, you have some pretty darn good interns, but it
Speaker 1: seems like you have more people who want to be
Speaker 1: there than you can actually handle. But it's great to
Speaker 1: have that kind of interest.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: In addition to our seniors, biologists and professionals, we're also
Speaker 4: training new people that want to be interested in this field.
Speaker 4: So we've got interns coming from places like our local
Speaker 4: Bartlesville High School. We get interns that come out and
Speaker 4: start to learn the field, get hands on experience, as
Speaker 4: well as college graduates that come in and help with
Speaker 4: some of the projects during the busiest parts of the year.
Speaker 1: Now, daniel A Long with everything that you do at
Speaker 1: the research facility, you're also the education guy, which means
Speaker 1: they throw you out at high schools, grade schools, middle schools,
Speaker 1: and you put on a lot of demons straight. You're
Speaker 1: kind of like the showbiz aspect of the research center.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, if you go to our website for better or worse,
Speaker 4: my face tends to pop up a lot. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I've got a handful of education birds that will come
Speaker 4: out with me to different events, and so when you
Speaker 4: come out to while Brew, you'll get to meet a
Speaker 4: lot of those education birds. I all have Artemis, our
Speaker 4: red tailed hawk, right on my glove. And so if
Speaker 4: you come out, get there early and be ready and
Speaker 4: your best, because I'm going to take a picture with
Speaker 4: you a artmist You're gonna have a selfie to take
Speaker 4: home with a red tail hawk.
Speaker 2: Wow. And you know, and Artemis is used to all this.
Speaker 3: Yep, she's done really well.
Speaker 4: I've been working with her for a couple of years now,
Speaker 4: and so she's been on the news a couple of.
Speaker 3: Times in the last few weeks.
Speaker 4: And all the time we're going out to schools and
Speaker 4: expo centers and nature events centers, conservation districts, you name it.
Speaker 4: If they'll have us, we want to be out there
Speaker 4: and talking about the importance of our natural environment.
Speaker 1: I think I remember having you out there, Dewey at
Speaker 1: the Washington County Fairgrounds. If you had this thing about wingspan.
Speaker 1: You know, so if you were a bird, what would
Speaker 1: your wings span be? And the kids they get a kick.
Speaker 3: Out of that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, The Wingspan exhibit is great and it's another
Speaker 4: way for us to have a way to connect to.
Speaker 3: Our natural environment.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't realize those little geese that
Speaker 4: you see running around.
Speaker 3: Are pretty big.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you get going, and then comparing it to
Speaker 4: something like our hawks and our owls and our eagles.
Speaker 4: It's an amazing, impressive site and we're gonna have all
Speaker 4: those features in addition to a lot of our other
Speaker 4: education birds out for you to view and talk to experts.
Speaker 3: They're at the wild Brew event.
Speaker 2: Well, very good.
Speaker 1: Now at the Wild Brew once again, you bring your appetite,
Speaker 1: bring your thirst because there's gonna be lots to sample.
Speaker 2: What did the tickets start out at? You remember?
Speaker 4: So I want you to go to the website because
Speaker 4: we've got a few different varieties.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you for gotta get there five for.
Speaker 4: Your general admission, but if you really want to get
Speaker 4: there an hour early, you can get a patron ticket.
Speaker 4: You can also get group discounts, so if you've got
Speaker 4: a work group you want to go with, or if
Speaker 4: you can talk your boss into sponsoring you. There's a
Speaker 4: few sponsorships left as well.
Speaker 1: Know, now this has grown since its beginning. This started
Speaker 1: out as a cute little thing and now it's kind
Speaker 1: of become a behemoth.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's right.
Speaker 4: So we've been doing wildlife conservation in Oklahoma for forty years.
Speaker 4: It was only twenty six years ago that we started
Speaker 4: with the wild Brewer event, and at that point in time,
Speaker 4: we were like, hey, if we can get a few
Speaker 4: breweries together, we can have this craft brewing event and
Speaker 4: help showcase some really cool brewis while also supporting wildlife education.
Speaker 3: Now we're the oldest running craft brewery event in the state.
Speaker 2: How you like that?
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Hey, drink a beer, save a bird.
Speaker 3: Drink of beer, Save a bird. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now we're you located here in Green God Grey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're right off a circle mountain. We're just
Speaker 4: south of Bartlesville, but we've got a couple of different sites,
Speaker 4: so we've got two projects working here in Bartlesville as
Speaker 4: well as sites that are all over the state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you guys are all over because this is
Speaker 2: what you do.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yep.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, this is incredible. And the story of
Speaker 1: the AVI and the research center, all forty years of it.
Speaker 1: You can find a lot of it on the website.
Speaker 1: You really can't. And you can find out just about
Speaker 1: all the different aspects of the different things that you've
Speaker 1: been working on. And it seems like a lot of
Speaker 1: very tedious, eyeball straining labor, but it's got to be
Speaker 1: done because if it isn't, things get lost. Yep, and
Speaker 1: we mean life forms.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Birds are one of the most sensitive creatures in our environment.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows about the story of the canary in the
Speaker 4: coal mine where people took these canaris because they would
Speaker 4: be the first ones that again, it got impacted by
Speaker 4: low oxygen quality in the air. And we see some
Speaker 4: of the birds that have thrived in Oklahoma for thousands
Speaker 4: of years are suddenly disappearing. And it's because of things
Speaker 4: that are changing in our environment that are changing in
Speaker 4: our state, and we're seeing new birds that were never
Speaker 4: here before starting to show up. In fact, at the
Speaker 4: Sutton Center, she won't be a wibbery this year, but
Speaker 4: I'm training up a new bird, a new resident. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've got a crested kara kara. If you've never heard
Speaker 4: of this bird, it's an amazingly beautiful bird. A bird
Speaker 4: used to be called the Mexican eagle.
Speaker 3: They were a South.
Speaker 4: Texas at the most northern range. You would think about
Speaker 4: them in Mexico, South America, and now they're living in
Speaker 4: the southern part.
Speaker 3: Of our state.
Speaker 2: As speak of these things.
Speaker 4: They're a little bit smaller than our hawk. Nine hundred
Speaker 4: grams is what I waited at yesterday, which is still
Speaker 4: pretty good. Still pretty good sized bird. Yep, bigger than
Speaker 4: your average chicken.
Speaker 2: But more fun to look at than too. Maybe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there we go. So there you go.
Speaker 1: But boy, I tell you what, you can learn a
Speaker 1: lot and you can have a lot of fun by
Speaker 1: simply going to wild Brew dot or. That is where
Speaker 1: you get your tickets, and that's where you get your
Speaker 1: information about the big wild Brew that's coming up on
Speaker 1: Saturday down in Tulsa.
Speaker 2: Where's it going to be in Tall.
Speaker 4: So this is the Cox Convention Center. Absolutely, So that
Speaker 4: convention Center. We've got a huge space running out. We're
Speaker 4: gonna fill it with all kinds of booths. In addition
Speaker 4: to the beer, the one, the spirits, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: some non alcoholic offerings as well, So if you're not
Speaker 4: into that, you can still come out and join us.
Speaker 4: We love to have you all the food offerings and
Speaker 4: all of the experts from our field. You're also going
Speaker 4: to get to talk to the people that are doing
Speaker 4: the work on the ground. So people from our Mass
Speaker 4: Bob White team will be there to talk about their work.
Speaker 4: People that are working with a Prairie Chicken will be
Speaker 4: out there to talk about their work.
Speaker 3: And getting to see the people.
Speaker 4: That are actually doing the work on the ground is
Speaker 4: an experience to learn something new in addition to having
Speaker 4: a good time.
Speaker 2: All Right, hey Daniel, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 2: Absolutely thanks for having us all right, folks, and we
Speaker 2: will see you at Wild Brew