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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: Joseph Williams
Description: While Joe Williams is primarily known in Tulsa as an oilman, his friends and family speak of him as a bird hunter and conservationist, and then an astute businessman and oilman. It is Williams’ work on behalf of the country’s largest preserved tract of native tallgrass prairie that is his lasting legacy. He is given credit for making it happen, thus the preserve was renamed the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in 2015.He is past chairman of both the Oklahoma Board of Trustees and the National Board of Governors for The Nature Conservancy.In 1959, Joe Williams neve...