There is a new interview with Texas-based monster metal band FREAK13’s Chester Moore who tells about his upcoming tour during the summer of 2007. In the interview, Moore seems to be saying he more or less indirectly was involved in the discovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. A friend of Ted Nugent, Moore is an outspoken advocate for killing a Bigfoot to prove they exist, which is not discussed.Moore is described as a "wildlife researcher/author" in this April 2005 article. An excerpt:
Moore has logged expeditions search for the elusive species in Louisiana and Texas and even got to spend time in the field with the Zeiss-sponsored research team in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area in 2002.This accompanying photo is captioned "Researcher Chester Moore points out ivorybill sign in the Sabine River bottoms."
“I have been doing ivorybill research since the late 1990s, but going out in the field with Zeiss team members David Luneau and Martjan Lammertink really opened my eyes up to the possibilities. They were very enthused with the habitat they found in one tract we were in and I looked around and realized it is identical to that found along the Sabine River,” Moore said.
Moore's Cryptokeeper web site is here.
Finally, don't miss the "Chester Moore donates materials for a Southern Bigfoot Exhibit" article here (PDF format).
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He will be speaking on ivorybills and giant catfish June 18 at the Southern Crypto Conference in Conroe, TX.
This is just too funny! And the bio is killing me. I can't believe somebody wrote that with a straight face.
Chester, Fishcrow, and Mr. Guppy are heading up Team Granola, a group of IBWO searchers consisting of nothing but nuts and flakes.
This just keeps getting better and better!
I love the habitat shot. To think that all these years I thought old growth trees were big. Maybe it's a form of "jumbo Bonzai"?
Now that I see IBWO habitat, I realize that the trees in my yard are larger than those. Maybe those aren't Pileateds I've been seeing from my window.
A friend of Ted Nugent, Moore is an outspoken advocate for killing a Bigfoot to prove they exist
A heavy tranquilizer might work but the Sasquatch hide is so thick that unless you can get a bullet directly into its mouth, eyes, or ears, the creature is likely to run back to the pack. There, the most dominant female Sasquatch will suck the bullet out. They've been known to decorate the entrances to their underground lairs with bullets removed in this manner.
That photo doesn't look like an IBWO roost hole to me. Looks more like a Sasquatch message tree. There were reports in the 50s following the McGursky expedition that one or two Bigfoot tribes were using trained woodpeckers to carve holes in message trees, but those reports were never corroborated (McGursky, of course, died in jail following his arrest for tax fraud).
In any event, I'm glad Moore is out there keeping the fire burnin'. The Skunk Ape and the IBWO need people like Moore now, more than ever.
Who needs Chester Moore when we've already got Fishcrow. In fact, here's the latest Fishcrow newsflash:
"12-20-06. On February 18 [2006], I discovered that there are at least two
ivorybills in the Pearl. Since my first ivorybill encounter was in an area
overgrown with Yaupon Holly, I decided to name the male Capt. Holly. I named
the female Jadie (or J.D.) in honor of John Dennis. I saw Jadie once but was
unable to identify sex in any of the other sightings. This morning, Susan
Epps saw Capt. Holly in the same area as my sighting on October 21. It was
the first sighting of a male in the Pearl since the Kulivan sighting. It was
also the highest quality sighting since then. She saw the white triangle on
the folded wings, the dorsal stripes, the red crest, and the huge white
bill."
If they find another one maybe we can name it Mr. or Ms. "Fulla-crap" (depending on gender) in honor of FISH CROW! Chester Moore is a lightweight!
Did Susan Epps optain a photo of
Capt. Holly? Didn't she have the
"secret weapon" with her at the
time of the sighting? Without a
photo this report does not rise above the thousands of other sightings over the past couple of years. We need a photo! Who is Susan Epps?
Who is Susan Epps?
Fishcrow's dog.
Susan Epps must have been sampling the fermented holly berries, or she found Fishcrow's drug stash... Seriously, though, I knew that Fishcrow was onto something regarding the hollys. Searchers need to change their search image and look in the berry bushes. Maybe they like pyracantha, too. Or even Chinese Tallow fruit! If those things are true, then they should be everywhere. HELL, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE.
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Did Susan Epps optain a photo of
Capt. Holly? Didn't she have the
"secret weapon" with her at the
time of the sighting?
Actually, yes, she did have the secret weapon with her at the time, but you can imagine how difficult it is maneuvering through the holly scrub with a kayak paddle...
From this Times Picayune article:
For nearly half a century, Susan Epps has been haunted by the specter of an ivory-billed bird.
She claimed her first sighting in 1958, at age 10, while scouting the fringes of a state park near St. Martinville. It darted into a tree: an oversized woodpecker with a telltale white beak, a ringer for the famous one she had scrutinized relentlessly in her birding books.
Her father said she'd made a mistake; the mythic, ivory-billed woodpecker had disappeared from Louisiana at the turn of the century, after loggers drove it from its natural habitat among old-growth hardwood forests, and into extinction.
But Epps was unconvinced. She has been searching ever since.
"It's been this thing in my life -- this gap, this missing part of me," she said. "I wanted to see it again."
Sounds like a perfect partner for Mike who, as the article says on page 3, "has recorded 12 sightings in the past year."
Her father said she'd made a mistake;
He must have had a little mind.
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