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clint recognize him as a volunteer fundraiser for wild carrots an organization run entirely by volunteers and it's dedicated to helping the wild animals of northeast kansas good morning and welcome what exactly oppose those who may not know that is wild carrot do how long has been in existence and i remember she had a worker has between four hundred and five hundred members we also have between sixty nine hundred volunteers and sixty these work with animals and the others work with events like fundraising and other support functions walker's primary function is to educate people so that they won't danger of wild animals but you also care for these animals that either somebody orphaned or injured and that's right much of her time has been risky and rehabilitation of the wild animals we try to bring these animals to a point where they can be re released back into the wild and survive and live a healthy life and you also have a clinic or what i refer to as a rehabilitation farm for a lot of these animals located somewhere near eudora tell us about some of the baby activities that go on there finally a call and asked for help will

advise you and what to do with an animal if you find a mammal or a bird that you think needs help call us and let us know what it is what it looks like and we'll give you some guidance on how to take care of the animal that's the primary thing that i think we should be out their second week tech lexicon rescue the animals if you need a minimal will do that and bringing they can perform under emergency workers needed we often have volunteer veterinarians who will do x rays and look over the animal tell us what to do from a medical perspective and then we'll a spender to rehabilitating get better to health in an average year about how many animals do you look after it and care for well last year we had twelve hundred animals this year it would already have twelve hundred were expecting a couple hundred more this season is pretty well over the intensive animal season so we're shifting gears now how successful jury the program to most of the other animals get rehabilitated and get them

the program is very successful we have a pretty high success rate on helping animals survive as with any programmer you're dealing with health and life winter can be relieved to know you have to make decisions and those decisions are sometimes based on how many these animals exists out in the wild and our roads for example and what's more on the same there's so many more of them out there are much more adaptable to the christmas to people make on their habitat animals of the hiring at a huge chain include owls in parks and so there's not very many of those and they don't adapt very well so we try to give them a little bit more care because you can't afford to lose fifteen hawks it there's only heard him out there that is they cost money to run a program like this and feed and care for all of the injured an orphaned of mammals and birds were you get that kind of money well we have two primary sources of funding one is her membership drive which is going to start in november and december the other one is this weekend as we're having at art show which show focuses on wildlife and southwest are about dr jones

actually a wild life art shows sale and auction and i know you're going to have those many as sixty artists on hands and painters and sculptors and whatnot tells what was expected right we'll find a variety of media and the art of the artist to just about anything that you can imagine from paper to wood carvings and they're the jewelry that we have out there we're expecting some cases to run around three thousand dollars or so but you also find a number of places at the five dollar range and at a little bit higher than a leg excellent christmas gifts and i understand that you have a few animals are inherently for people to expect walter has several of what we call education animals these include five raptors know the raptors or predator birds are basically now the hawk castro and a couple of others my guest today has been clint black eyes and with wild care a group of northeast kansas volunteers dedicated to protecting and preserving wild

life the wild carrot show sale an auction will be held this sunday at the lawrence holiday inn harder to six pm communism dave cummins a bad name and the hippies didn't help either nevertheless canoe experiments are recurring sidebar in our nation's history from tacos commonwealth hundred and sixty sixty three to the celibate shakers and right up to today's tens of thousands of hot right tim miller ok you associate professor of religious studies has written three books holy or partly about condoms the most recent titled america's alternative religions was published this year now miller has received a grant from the national endowment for the humanities to raid the memory banks of at least two hundred people who live the american cummins between nineteen sixty five and nineteen seventy five some of them still live communally miller will see what impressions and stories can be salvaged archived from the people your

parents warned you against those two names wavy gravy the hog farm and the merry pranksters meant something miller an assistant the baldness will be talking with stephen gaskin who started an outfit called the farm in tennessee gaskin was a spiritual freelancer who drawn confucius is in the new testament to wow this fosters also interviewed will be lou gottlieb who funded morningstar near san francisco he opened his thirty acres to anyone who wanted to come hang out hippies flock to the site the neighbors girl or that the sanitation good of the county said enough and the bulldozers blew it away from interviews with the founders of colorado's prop setting an artist colonies boring cartel coverage it hasn't don't know arnold has also will be brief residence at twin oaks in virginia that community was founded on the precepts of behaviorists psychologist be a scanner even today it's attractive enough to have a waiting list

a fair number of christian coming towards also will be tapped such as those who are the broader off the conservative establishment with a company that makes heavy duty toys for child care centers and in florida where will visit trashy ashram run by a woman who grew up jewish in new york and became a visionary who calls herself mr dr trout runs an aids hospice mostly for kids if he can get these groups by the root you'll find a common idealism these are people who were passionate about saving the world miller says gordon moore appears frequently from coming towards nowadays is eco village it carries overtones of spare living in the conservation and natural resources the one hundred residents of twin oaks for example make do with about fifteen vehicles certain groups are so far absent or nearly absent from miller's list of prospective contacts he's not only a handful of coming members who are persons of color just a few hispanics and a few american indians he like to hear from more as well as from blacks but more suspects they were numerous incomes of those

days why not perhaps it has something to do with a common dream of living on less that dream it seems to me would not seem to agree to those already familiar with life's league side