Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy

Board of Advisors

John Bindernagel, Ph.D.
British Columbia, Canada
Board of Advisors

Background: Wildlife biologist and author of North America’s Great Ape: the Sasquatch. Dr. Bindernagel worked with the United Nations in wildlife conservation, research, and training in East Africa, Iran, Nepal, the Caribbean, and Central America. He has conducted numerous wildlife surveys of bald eagles, seabirds, moose, bears and other North American mammals, and he has pursued sasquatch field work, including finding and investigating a possible sasquatch trackway found in 1988.

Loren Coleman
Portland, Maine
Board of Advisors

Background: University sociology lecturer (1980 – 2004) and senior researcher at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Policy (1983 to 1996). Coleman was educated in anthropology and zoology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and psychiatric social work at the Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston. He has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, regarding bigfoot sightings, and is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost cryptozoology experts. He is the author of 27 books.

Smokey Crabtree
Fouke, Arkansas
Board of Advisors

Background: Retired oilfield welder and businessman. Born and raised near the Sulphur River bottoms south of Fouke, Arkansas, Crabtree is a seasoned outdoorsman, an expert regarding the flora and fauna characterizing the backwoods of Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. He served in the Merchant Marines during WWII and is the author of three books. Crabtree is perhaps best known for the film for which he was a guide and consultant, The Legend of Boggy Creek, a dramatized documentary recounting a series of purported bigfoot encounters in the 1960s that involved his family. Crabtree maintains an interest in bigfoot research and has spoken at many conferences. 

Henner Fahrenbach, Ph.D.
Beaverton, Oregon
Board of Advisors

Background: Retired zoologist. Fahrenbach worked for thirty years as Chairman of the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Oregon. He holds a collection of hair samples described as originating from an unlisted primate living in North America. He has conducted extensive sasquatch field work in the Pacific Northwest and has discovered a number of trackways and tracks.

John Green
Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia
Board of Advisors

Background: Retired journalist. Green is the author of several books including his landmark Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us. He spent four decades as one of the premier participants in sasquatch research, participating in extensive field investigations throughout much of North America. Green has been a leader in efforts to involve the scientific community in sasquatch research. He has served as the keynote speaker at three major symposiums held on the subject.

Alton Higgins
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Board of Advisors

Background: Wildlife biologist; biology professor at Mid-America Christian University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. An experienced birder, Higgins worked as a field biologist for the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University, where he focused primarily on censusing vertebrate populations in riparian margins. He is an active member of the TBRC, participating in field research and investigations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. In his own words, he has “seen, heard, and experienced things that cannot be attributed to currently accepted animal species.”

John Kirk
Canada
Board of Advisors

Background: An author and writer, Kirk is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading cryptozoological investigators. Author of In the Domain of the Lake Monsters, this seasoned outdoorsman has conducted extensive field work in North America, Scotland and Africa. He is the president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) and has been a featured speaker at several symposiums, including the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference.

Jeff Meldrum, Ph.D.
Pocatello, Idaho
Board of Advisors

Background: Physical anthropologist, Idaho State University professor, and affiliate curator for the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Meldrum is the author of the 2006 book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. He is widely considered as one of the world’s foremost authorities regarding possible sasquatch-related evidence. He has discovered tracks and has experienced probable sasquatch encounters. His laboratory includes a large collection of sasquatch foot castings.

John Mionczynski
Wyoming
Board of Advisors

Background: Wildlife biologist and naturalist. Mionczynski has conducted extensive field biology research activities in North America. He spent thirty years studying bighorn herds and tracking bears in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. Mionczynski maintains that as a U.S. Forest Service bear researcher in 1972, he had an encounter with a sasquatch that included the animal lobbing pine cones at him.

Rick Noll
Seattle, Washington
Board of Advisors

Background: Metrologist, expert photographer/videographer. Noll has extensive field experience related to the sasquatch phenomenon in North America. He is considered a track casting expert. Since 1969 he has worked with Peter Byrne, René Dahinden, Grover Krantz, John Green, Jeff Meldrum, and many other sasquatch researchers, and he has assisted groups such as the BFRO and the TBRC. He has consulted with and appeared in many documentaries, symposia, and conferences on the subject. 

Kathy Strain
Sonora, California
Board of Advisors

Background: Cultural Anthropologist. Strain works as the Forest Archaeologist for the Stanislaus National Forest, California. She is an expert regarding the “Hairy Man” pictographs located on the Tule River Indian reservation in California. She chairs the Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers and has conducted extensive field work and academic research pertaining to the sasquatch phenomenon. Strain has spoken at several symposiums on the subject, including the 2006 Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures.

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