Launching the 2008 Pro-Tour: Coastal Bend of Texas
ICF Invites You to the Launch Events for the 2008 Pro-Tour of Nature Photography
Friday March 28, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Center
Tio and Janell Kleberg Wildlife Research Park
Texas A&M University
1730 West Corral, Kingsville, TX 78363
Dinner Celebration & Drawing
Double-blind Drawing to Randomly Match
20 Coastal Bend Landowners with
20 International Professional Nature Photographers
FORMULA FOR CONSERVATION:
20 Photographers + 20 Ranchers = Astonishing Wildlife Images
The Pro-Tour has selected 20 landowners from applicants representing a 19-county area in the Coastal Bend of Texas. The ranches are randomly matched with 20 international professional nature photographers for an intensive world-class tournament that will take place April 1 - April 30, 2008.
ICF's goal is to create sustainable development of rural economies through the creation and prosperity of the Private Lands Nature Photo-Tourism Industry. Nature Photography has the unique ability to preserve habitat permanently by making it profitable.
The 2008 Ranches
Borchers Ranches - Lavaca County
Otto, Betty Ann and William Borchers
Butler Ranch - Karnes/Live Oak Counties
Sue Carter and Family
Coleto Creek Project - Victoria County
Coleto Creek Power (Wilfred Korth
Dale Land & Cattle (Sick Dog Ranch) - Jim Wells County
Mitchel M. Dale
Fennessey Ranch - Refugio County
Brien O'Connor Dunn (Sally Crofutt)
Flying M Ranch/Lajuana Ranch - Duval County
Cynthia and Armin Marmolejo
C.R. "Dick" Sherron, MD
Fourth Option, LTD - San Patricio County
Darryl and Teresa Haas
Jay Welder Ranch - Victoria County
John Welder and Kathleen Welder Carey
JHA Ranch - Live Oak County
Brett Anderson
Knolle Jersey Farms - Jim Wells County
John R. Pettigrove, MD
La Campana Ranch - Live Oak County
Tom Martin Family (Alan Turner)
La Ramirena Ranch - Live Oak County
Richard and Patricia Phillips
Mustang Ranch - Duval county
Hugo and Laura Berlanga
Pedrotti-Sorgente - Duval County
Daniel A. Pedrotti
Pierce Ranch - Wharten County
Laurence Armour III
Rancho Grande - Jim Wells County
Anne Bayless, Roger and Liz Hoffman
Rancho Lucero - Duval County
Tim Ehrman
Rockin h Ranch - Jim Wills County
Bruce and Gail Hoffman
Swenson Ranch (Hill Creek) - McMullen County
Peter and Fran Swenson
Welder Wildlife Refuge - San Patricio County
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Terry Blankenship)
The 2008 Photographers
Joshua Anderson - Chillicothe, Ohio
Jasper Doest - Holland
Sean Fitzgerald - Dallas, Texas
D. Robert Franz - Cody, Wyoming
Jason Hahn - Tampa, Florida
Derrick Hamrick - Raleigh, North Carolina
John Hendrickson - Clipper Mills, California
Cathy Illg - Lakewood, Colorado
Santiago Gibert Isern - Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Leo Keeler - Emigrant, Montana
Terra C. Lightsmith - Conroe, Texas
Scott Linstead - Maple Grove, Quebec, Canada
Rolf Nussbaumer - New Braunfels, Texas
Al Perry - Evansville, Indiana
Maresa Pryor-Luzier - Bushnell, Florida
Mike Sloat - Fort Worth, Texas
Todd Steele - Katy, Texas
Keith Szafranski - Livingston, Montana
Tom Ulrich - West Glacier, Montana
Marcel van Kammen – Holland