Join us at the 28th National Environmental Conference at Tar Creek to hear updates from multiple city, tribal, and state agencies on their work, research in the fields related to our restoration, and personal stories from those working and retired in the area.

Schedule is subject to change ​​

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Day 1 is free for everyone  

• 10:00 Is Nuclear ok for OK - Ann Suellentrop

• 11:00 Tar Creek 101 - Ed Keheley

• 1:00 Toxic tour (bus or caravan)

• 3:00 Community Organizing 101 - Madison Lovell, Anthropocene Alliance

• 4:00 - 6:00 Tar Creek Watershed Stakeholders Plan

• Dinner on your own

• 6:30 Keynote Speaker Chief Glenna Wallace, Eastern Shawnee Tribe

• Cardinal Valley Screening and Panel

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Day 2 (9am - 5pm)  Tecumseh Day-With a Poster Session during lunch

• 9am Welcome

• Start with Soil - Gretchen Sassenrath

• Route 66 & Native Nations Bobbie Chew-Bigby 

• Tar Creek Updates DEQ-Katrina Pollard / Bob Nairn, University of Oklahoma 

• Tar Creek NRDA Restoration Project Updates, Tar Creek Trustee Council

  • Ozark Plateau Suzanne Dunn DOI​

  • Sycamore Creek streambank restoration (Wyandotte)

  • Lost Creek (Eastern Shawnee)

  • Mussel Reintroduction Surveys (Peoria)

• TCAP Tar Creek Trustee Council Tribes

• Architectural Intervention for Post Industrial Landscape Restoration - Saida Akhter

• From Environmental Exposure to Education and Economic Opportunity Loss--Arathi Balagangadharan Natalia Gormley

• Survivance Journey of Native American Oklahoma Women and Birthing People: the Tar Creek Superfund Site- Kendra Root-Samples, PhD Candidate OSU 

• Oklahoma State Health Department Update on Lead Levels in Ottawa County

• Cultural and Environmental Harms of Poultry Farms in NEOK -Katie Smith-Easter - Southeastern Grasslands Institute

• RRC Data Center Activism Panel

  • Kimberly Barker, LEAD Agency​

  • Amber Robinson Rodriguez, Women Empowered for Democracy

  • Darren Blanchard, Farmer and Activist

  • Cheyenna Morgan, Stop Data Colonialism, Indigenous Voice

• Health and Environmental Impacts from Data Centers - Kelly Hunter Foster - Waterkeeper Alliance​

• Artist Chris Mantle will be creating a painting available at the end of the day to the highest bidder

• BREAK

• Indian Taco Dinner

• Demon Mineral Screening & Discussion with filmmaker and and community members (6:30 pm)

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Day 3 (9am - 5pm) With a Poster Session during lunch

• Whispers of Grandfathers George Briscoe

• "Tar Creek: The Color of Warning" Jennifer Little, University of the Pacific 

• Two Beavers Wide - Steve Patterson - Restoration Ecologist

• Water Quality in the Arkansas River in Tulsa, OK - Barbara VanHanken, TAARA and Keith Roberts, TU

• Flyfishing Demonstration and Practice - Ron Seat, MAKO

• Protect Inola, Chris Roam

• Don’t Waste my Future, Pam Kingfisher, Nuclear Truth Project, Green Country Guardians

• Marshallese Educational Initiative - Marcina Langrine

• Deep Fission in Parsons, KS - Margarie Reynolds/ Ann Suellentrop

• Protect Rural Oklahoma, Ben and Natalie Bullard

• Higher Electrical Demand is a Manufactured Crisis: Climate Solutions are Everywhere, Kelda Lorax

• Regional Resilience Collective Members and Issues: Sierra Club Capitol Action, Adrienne Gautier

• 5:00 pm Closing with Drawings

• To Use a Mountain Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker and Activists (6:30 pm)

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The 28th Conference will include good food, 3 movie screenings, and art from local students and adults. The conference will span October 6-8 at NEO A&M College in the Student Union Ballroom.