"A little Hicks and Gresham IBWO history"

An email from a reader:

Two ambitious young birders? Want to make their mark on the birding world? Had a fascination with IBWO? Always talked about it? A dream to find it? Noted by others?
Has the dream come true?

Hick's father - 18 April 2000 - [Tyler] "has set out on his own to make his mark in the birding world..." "...to make his contribution to the birding world."
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0004&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R7756&I=-3&m=8183

*14 May 2001 - "Anyone seen Tyler Hicks or Chet Gresham lately??" (Forwarding post "Two experienced birders needed for 30-day intensive search [Zeiss] for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Pearl River area, Louisiana.")
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0105&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R7543&D=0&I=-3

Chet Gresham - IBWO related posts on KSBIRD; shows his interest:
27 April 2005 http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0504&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R15393&D=0&I=-3
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0504&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R15574&D=0&I=-3
28 April 2005 http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0504&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R16322&D=0&I=-3
4 May 2005 http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0505&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R2182&D=0&I=-3
9 May 2005 http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0505&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R6473&D=0&I=-3
22 July 2005 http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0507&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R9278&D=0&I=-3

Chet Gresham's blog posts -
Dec 2005 - "I've always had a fascination with this bird and when I heard they had been rediscovered I about had a fit. Let's hope they find more this winter and in other areas of the southeast and keep protecting the few places they could possibly still live!" - http://earthhouseholder.blogspot.com/2005/12/ivory-billed-woodpecker.html

Jan 2006 - 'Trip' to Florida - http://earthhouseholder.blogspot.com/2006/01/florida-panhandle.html
(Gresham is pictured on the Auburn website -here
Both Gresham and Leon Hicks (Tyler's father) hear kents and knocks and are eventually credited for field assistance - here

Sept 2006 - [Tyler] "called me and left a message that he had some good news. For some reason I knew. We had always talked about the woodpecker and knowing he was in the southeast I just had a feeling." http://earthhouseholder.blogspot.com/2006/09/ivory-billed-woodpecker.html

26 Sept 2006 - "Considering the recent IBWO news related to Tyler and Chet, this archived KSBIRD-L post from Ken Brunson back in 2001 (*see above) shows some foresight."
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0609&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R11938&D=0&I=-3

26 Sept 2006 - Chet Gresham on Tyler Hicks
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0609&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R12081&D=0&I=-3

27 Sept 2006 "...it was pretty easy to predict the eventual notoriety of these ambitious young birders."
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0609&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R12131&D=0&I=-3

Hick' mother - 15 Oct 2006 - [Tyler] "is just wanting to chase a dream"
http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A2=ind0610&L=KSBIRD-L&P=R6802&I=-3&m=27798