April 2, 2007

The Future of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center

The Texas Bigfoot Research Center has been actively involved in the search for the mysterious creature known as the sasquatch or bigfoot since 1999. In the beginning, there were only a handful of volunteers. However, as 2006 came to a close, the group featured a diverse, professional and talented membership roster of nearly 60 individuals, including wildlife biologists, law enforcement officers, photographers, teachers, business owners, managers, outfitters, ex-military, doctors, CPAs, pilots, technicians, professors, and journalists/editors, to name a few. It has been an exciting, educational, fun and enriching period.

With that said, the group’s leadership has decided that the time has come for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center to step aside to make way for a successor. Much has been learned through nearly eight years of trial and error. Board members also recognized that this field of research is still only in its infancy stages. For this research to progress, to grow, it must be better funded.

As a result, in December 2006, the group’s leaders decided to bring the curtain down on the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. In doing so, the group donated its equipment, its personnel, its database, its website domains to a newly-created non-profit research group, and on 18 January 2007, the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC) was created. Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws were drafted and endorsed by the group’s seven-person Board of Directors.

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy desires to take research of the elusive sasquatch to the next level. Its mission statement includes the following objectives:

“To investigate and conduct research regarding the purported existence of the unlisted primate species known as the sasquatch or bigfoot; to facilitate scientific, official and governmental recognition, conservation, and protection of the species and its habitat; and to help further factual education and understanding to the public regarding the species, with a focus mainly in, but not necessarily limited to, the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.”

The group’s Board of Advisors includes (in alphabetical order):

Dr. John Bindernagel
Loren Coleman
Smokey Crabtree
Dr. Henner Fahrenbach
John Green
Alton Higgins
John Kirk
John Mioncszynski
Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Rick Noll
Kathy Strain

With the governing body of seven Directors and approximately 60 members, the non-profit group seeks to proactively fulfill its mission statement. This includes sponsoring an annual professionally oriented bigfoot conference in the same manner as the Texas Bigfoot Research Center.

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy will soon unveil its new website at www.texasbigfoot.org.

During this time of transition, the current Texas Bigfoot Research Center will no longer have new information posted to its website, and the website will be taken offline once the new Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy site is launched. When the new TBRC site is launched, several recent investigative reports and field research reports will be featured. Unfortunately, it may take awhile for all the old reports to be integrated into the new database.

The new TBRC’s Board of Directors, Advisors, and Members anticipate that these changes will enhance the credibility of bigfoot/sasquatch research and facilitate a greater degree of acceptance by the scientific community and other segments of society of the likelihood of a biological basis behind the sasquatch phenomenon.

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy—working to turn today’s mystery into tomorrow’s discovery.

Filed under Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Sasquatch