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John Sanders honored as 2025 Landowner of the Year for wetland work on private farm
Summary
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation honored John Sanders for converting low-lying cropland into managed wetlands, installing homemade water-control devices and piloting low-cost conservation tools on a 932-acre property near the Red River Basin.
John Sanders, a private landowner with a 932-acre project in the Red River Basin, was named the Oklahoma Landowner of the Year for 2025 by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
The award recognizes Sanders’ conversion of marginal cropland into a 55-acre complex of 5–10 acre wetland units, construction of a levee that created a 50-acre lake, and ongoing stewardship of a forested oxbow called Dead Man’s Slough, which Sanders manages as a evening roost sanctuary for migratory waterfowl. Paxton Smith, the department’s migratory game birds and wetlands biologist, said Sanders’ efforts…
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