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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

PAUL VELLA: Texas Bigfoot Conference

Paul Vella has been a friend of mine for many years, and has been running the CFZ BHM Study Group since 2004. I have been pestering him to become part of the bloggo team for months, and it is great that he has finally succumbed to my blandishments....

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC) are holding their annual conference on September 26th 2009, this time in Tyler Texas.

A few hours ago they published this year's line up, and what a line up it is.


09:30 – 09:50: Brian Brown – Official Greeting, Announcements
09:55 – 10:25: Daryl Colyer – TBRC Investigator
10:30 – 11:00: Jerry Hestand – TBRC Investigator
11:05 – 11:50: Alton Higgins – TBRC Wildlife Biologist

11:55 – 12:15: Peter Matthiessen – author, naturalist and photographer – intro
1:15 – 1:30: Robert Swain, artist – discussion of his work
1:35 – 2:15: John Bindernagel – Wildlife Biologist
2:30 – 3:10: Chris Bader and Carson Mencken – Baylor University Sociologists
3:15 – 4:00: John Mioncynzski – Wildlife Biologist, naturalist
4:15 – 4:50: Keith Foster – Rocky Mountain researcher
4:55 – 5:25: Bill Dranginis – Developer of non-intrusive “Eye Gotcha” photographic system
5:30 – 6:15: Panel Discussion moderated by Brian Brown
7:30 – 8:30: Fundraiser Banquet dinner
8:30 – 9:30: Peter Matthiessen at the Banquet

I attended the TBRC conference in 2007 and had a terrific time - I intend to go to this year's conference too.

My only criticsm of the 2007 event was that I felt it could have been a two day event - they pack a a lot into one day. If you can get to Texas, you should.

Full details can be found at www.texasbigfoot.com

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