Our Logo
Our logo was created by Wichita designer Melissa DeLeon and features a fox—in this case, a gray fox, an animal that’s native to Oklahoma and which is considered the most ancestral and genetically distinct of North America’s canids.
The gray fox is found throughout most of Oklahoma, from the Ouachita forests to the Wichita range, along the riparian corridors of our central and western counties and out to the Black Mesa country in the state’s panhandle.
Unlike the red fox which relies on its cunning and powers of endurance to avoid danger, the gray fox is strongly associated with rocky, brushy, or forested habitats where it avoids predators by climbing trees or retreating to thick cover. The gray fox is so dependent upon such habitat for hunting, denning, resting, and safety, that it’s seldom found far from it.
This interdependence—the fox utilizing these landscapes for its needs while keeping numbers of rats and mice in check, thereby helping maintain ecological balance—is foundational to our mission at The Wildways Project to support biodiversity, and to help people and wildlife coexist, by protecting wildlife habitat.
As for our name, a wildway is simply a corridor of natural habitat. It can reflect a landscape, the native plants and shrubs within, and even the habits of the wild animals themselves. Which is the whole point. When we consider how we live in the world, we must consider the needs of wildlife as well as our own.
