Doug Baum

About the presenter

Doug Baum has owned and operated Texas Camel Corps since 1997 and is the education chairperson for North American Camel Ranch Owners Association. Business activities include annual public education programs with his family’s camels from Mississippi to Arizona and New Mexico, and across Texas, guiding camel treks in the Big Bend region of Texas, and leading tours of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and India among other foreign locations. He has made presentations at international camel conferences in the UK, Kazakhstan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. Baum is also a documentary filmmaker with awards from multiple film festivals for his work chronicling camel cultures around the world as well as subjects related to local and regional US history. He and his camels have been featured by Texas Monthly, ARAMCO World magazine, AAA’s Journey Magazine, Texas Highways, the Voice of America, and National Geographic Adventure.