Oklahoma City’s exclusive outdoor radio show—hosted by Taylor Maples. As a lifelong outdoorsman and former college athlete, Taylor has always been fascinated by the crossover between the life lessons learned in sports and lessons learned in the outdoors. Alongside weekly guests like experts from the Department of Wildlife Conservation, hunting guides, college coaches, professional athletes, and more, Taylor discusses hunting ...
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In this week's episode Taylor Maples and Josh Stratton chat with Jacob DeVecchio from Oklahoma Fungi, the premier resource for mushroom education in Oklahoma. For many, Springtime in the outdoors offers a multitude of opportunities; turkey hunting, shed hunting, and morel mushroom hunting. Jacob is one of the foremost figures in Oklahoma's fungi community and sheds some light on the #MushLove movement and why more outdoorsmen should be interested.
In this week's episode Taylor Maples and Josh Stratton discuss Oklahoma Senate Bill 941 with two of the bill's architects, Catherine Appling-Pooler, National Deer Association's Director of Policy, and Randall Cole, Oklahoma Ducks Unlimited's State Policy Chair. Today the bill has bipartisan support in both Oklahoma's House and Senate--but it hasn't always been that way. After numerous evolutions over 5+ years the bill now sit on Governor Stitt's desk. Listen to hear what SB941 means for Oklahomans and non-residents in the outdoors, local conservation funding, and more, plus why an unprecedented fifteen National Governing Organizations were compelled to come together in it's support.
In this episode Taylor Maples and Josh Stratton catch up with Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Wildlife Diversity and Research Supervisor Kurt Kuklinski. Kurt was an integral part of the recent Dust Bowl Mule Deer film project with The Mule Deer Foundation, MeatEater, and Oklahoma State University and joined the guys at Western Hunting and Conservation Expo to talk about the project and it's implications to Mule Deer research in Oklahoma's panhandle. Plus, now two years after his first guest appearance on The Outdoor Hour, Kurt gives some exciting updates on several on-going research projects across the state and how his team's efforts are shaping our understanding of several game species.
In this episode Taylor Maples chats with Sarah Blue and Jessica Curran from Ledger Outdoors about their female owned outdoor brand and their first experience as vendors at OKC's Backwoods Hunting and Fishing Show. As newcomers to the outdoor industry but lifelong outdoor enthusiasts, Sarah and Jessica have blown away at the positive reception they've felt and the community they've found after stepping out in faith into the unknown.
In this episode Taylor Maples and Josh Stratton talk about the end of Show Season in the Outdoor Industry, culminating with the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City, including the premier of MeatEater's Dust Bowl Mule Deer film project with the Mule Deer Foundation, Oklahoma's Department of Wildlife Conservation, and Oklahoma State University. Taylor also recaps his weekend trip to Arkansas targeting big brown trout on the fly and the humbling experience of hunting predator trout at night.