Oklahoma Wildlife Expo 2008
Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 8 a.m. - 6p.m.
Oklahoma Wildlife Expo
Newsroom
For Immediate Release: WEEK OF JULY 24, 2008
Wildlife Expo’s Outdoor Marketplace to offer even more in 2008
Vendors planning to reserve a booth at the 2008 Oklahoma
Wildlife Expo’s Outdoor Marketplace should sign up by Aug. 15 in order to
guarantee they get a spot.
Vendors who wish to obtain a booth at this year’s Outdoor
Marketplace should contact Rhonda Hurst, Expo coordinator for the Oklahoma
Department of Wildlife Conservation, at (405) 522-6279, or Nels Rodefeld,
information and education chief for the Wildlife Department, at (405)
521-4635.
“This is the kind of event that an outdoor product or service
vendor doesn’t want to miss,” Rodefeld said. “With literally thousands upon
thousands of outdoor-minded visitors converging on the Expo Sept. 26-28,
there is a good chance most of them will want to take a stroll through the
Outdoor Marketplace to see what each vendor has to offer.”
Last year’s Oklahoma Wildlife Expo drew about 40,000 people to
the Lazy E Arena, just north of Oklahoma City. The Expo is a free three-day
event hosted by the Wildlife Department and designed to perpetuate an
interest in the outdoors and conservation through hands-on education and
learning opportunities. Visitors to the Expo have the opportunity to shoot
shotguns and archery equipment, catch a fish, ride an ATV or mountain bike,
climb a rock wall, float in a kayak, build a birdhouse and more.
Additionally, more than a hundred booths and activities are available that
are designed to expose visitors to different outdoor pursuits and
educational opportunities, and seminars are held on a number of wildlife and
outdoor topics ranging from land management to training hunting dogs.
The Outdoor Marketplace gives the Expo’s outdoor-minded guests
a place to shop for the latest in outdoor products and services that cater
to their lifestyles, while providing vendors a place to showcase their goods
to the people that will want to buy them.
“The Outdoor Marketplace is a win-win feature of the Expo for
both the huge crowds in attendance and the vendors who come out to display
their great products, some of which might be harder to access anywhere
else,” Rodefeld said.
The Wildlife Department works with a range of organizations,
individuals and outdoor-related companies to host the Expo — an event
intended to promote and develop appreciation for Oklahoma’s wildlife and
natural resources.
Log on to wildlifedepartment.com regularly to stay up to date on
the upcoming Oklahoma Wildlife Expo.
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