By now you have seen our motif and you are either pleased with the variety of the wildlife on display, or you have not yet made up your mind whether this is an appropriate forum for such an exposure. Please indulge me with our explanation of why we came to choose this motif for your dining pleasure.

Born in Texas, I was introduced to hunting and wildlife management as a way of life. During my adulthood, I have traveled over most of America, parts of Europe, and extensively over Africa (7 years of my life actually in the "bush") in search of unique wildlife experiences.

I have been so blessed:

• Of all of my sojourns, I have shared over 90 percent of them with my family and/or friends - what an education, and what glories of romanticism.
• I have been an officer or served on countless boards of conservation organizations that espouse hunting as a tool of wildlife management.
• I was fortunate to be a significant participant in founding The American Wilderness Leadership School in Wyoming - lending my signature on the check buying the Granite Ranch - a Safari Club International Conservation Fund project.
• During my tenure as President of the Houston Chapter of Safari Club International, we received a special citation from "The National Wildlife Federation" for spearheading hunting revenue payments to women's councils in Africa to be used locally for new roads, schooling, and increased medical care - the result of which was the women directly helping us identify poachers that affected all of our interests. Because of this project we increased the population of elephants in southern Africa from a dismal estimate of less than 750,000 to a current estimate of nearly 2,000,000! Maybe, the greatest conservation story never told!
• I have been fortunate to have survived numerous anti-poaching expeditions to save elephants, lions, and cheetahs; and in fact, with the help of my partner in South Africa, we actually raised an orphaned pair of baby cheetahs to reintroduce them into Kruger National Park.

Note, there will never be any animal that is on any of the myriad lists of endangered or threatened animals shown here or any where I have influence.

I welcome your questions, and I look forward to sincere conversations that will lead us both to a better understanding of how all of us can help all species of wildlife prosper.