In Episode 60 of Downtown Depot, Austin Meek of Waco Business News interviews Annie Hepp of Texas Parks & Wildlife. Hepp is the interpretive specialist for Region 5 where she oversees the educational aspects of every state park from Central Texas to the panhandle. Before that conversation, Meek gets real estate updates from commercial expert Gregg Glime and residential expert Austin Hooper, and he talks to Carole Fergusson of StartUp Waco about the Big Idea Challenge in “The Word on the Street.”

Inside the Episode:

0:30 - The Word on the Street: Extraco’s Big Idea Challenge with Carole Ferguson of StartUp Waco
1:55 - Gregg Glime with What’s Happening Here?
6:02 - Austin Hooper with The Residential Recap
10:57 - Annie Hepp’s Waco history
11:45 - Transitioning from Canada to Texas
15:16 - Interpreting science and culture in Texas state parks
17:37 - Working with raptors
18:13 - Judge Dread the turkey vulture
21:17 - Animal intelligence
23:02 - Three state parks less than an hour from Waco
27:57 - Accessing nature in your backyard