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No you don't. You don't even know how the next five minutes will transpire from right now! You can guess, but you don't KNOW. You certainly don't know how the future will transpire after you see a BF. I hope you see one, so you can come back & tell us all about it. It won't be like you think.

Not millions, but what it takes to have a sustained population with pockets scattered all across the country. It all boils down to what happenes to the evidence, and who will believe the stories. You hope to stay in control of the evidence, but I'm not convinced anyone could, given it's implications.

A few of them have houses right down the street from mine. You know, several abandoned cars, old refrigerators on the front porch, that sort of thing.

exactly...... especially with a travel size specimen .

^^^^^ If it happened at all...... Im basically of the mindset now? No body? Never happened.........kinda sick of tall tales yanno?

Then of course we are forced to confront eyewitness descriptions such as the one that provided the information for this sketch:

Hi SWWASQUATCH, If you go back to the same spot you heard the drumming sound before. If it's a ruffed grouse and you're quiet and listen. You should hear it again. If the area hasn't been too disturbed. I know a spot that has had a ruffed grouse drumming there every April for the past 20 years. I know this because I keep going out in the field and I take/keep field notes. Before I knew what it was I called it the thump thump sound. Also at this time of year Great Gray Owls are vocalizing their deep WHOA WHOA sound. Before I knew what it was I called it the WHOA WHOA sound. So I thought all the WHOA WHOA sounds were Great Gray Owls. Until one day I was going to film one up in a tree. But it wasn't a Great Gray Owl it was a Blue Grouse. So I'm not right all the time. There's always something new to learn. I didn't have anyone to teach or show me these things. I did it all on my own going back into the field over and over again, listening and observing my surroundings and keeping field notes. So if there's someone that has a recording, video, photo, or describes a sound they've heard while out in the field. And asks what do you think of this or that or what is it? And if I know or think I know what it is. I'll say something if I think I can help. And if I can find a video of what I think it is, I'll share it. If I'm wrong I'm wrong. If I'm right I'm right, no big deal. But for me having an older brother I don't get to be right very often. So when I am right, especially after being told I'm wrong. It feels good. After all I'm only human.

What's next for Les? Going to the Carter farm and offering garlic? Maybe the Erickson Project's breathing shag carpet?

Paranormal is a last resort for me personally, and is reserved for when I see one walk into a worm hole. Geographicly, I see no reason they couldn't live anywhere a coyote can live, and I think the evidence is equal in most states they are reported in. I don't cherry pick acounts to make my hypothesis more palatable, but I think you have to. You had tried to make a point that people aren't prosecuted for shooting or killing bigfoot. My point is that if they are a human relic and live like an animal, it's the last thing law enforcement, fish and game, or your local university wants to prove, because something would have to be done about it. If these things were just a bipedal gorilla, they'd be on every mountain hunters wall next to their prize grizzly. They aren't and there's a reason, what is it?

Sometimes guns refuse to shoot when they are involved. Hubby was going to shoot one of their coyotes & the gun kept misfiring until the coyote was out of sight, then it started working fine. Never happened before or since.

I think he did the two shows with Standing to show the potential of him being a hoaxer without actually calling him one. There were things like the magic disappearing apple, and he stresses in the show that a lot of Standing's claims are totally biased. He also points out that his group of Sasquatch for some reason are now nowhere to be found. Les seems more the kind of person to lay doubt in people's minds rather than make straight accusations.

I don't expect it's in your plans then to go straight to a law enforcement agency with your ugh...."specimen" right? I mean, why have any contingency for losing it to some "higher authority" if there's zero chance that it's not an animal? So long as it's not proven to exist, there is no crime right? It's not about feelings Norse, I really wish you could get past the petty attacks on the no-kill mindset and start to understand the mechanism that keeps bigfoot unproven. It's not because people haven't ever shot at one or that they've never been hit by a vehicle. You can't have it both ways either, if they are where they are reported, there's more than enough of them to have fallen in our laps by now, so just because those who see them as human-like enough to not shoot, haven't brought you a specimen, it's definitely not on their hands that it's not proven today. It's either because they present too many problems in the process of aknowledgement listing and protecting them and their environment, or they are paranormal entities that shouldn't be dealt with as wildlife to start with.

For those outside science this stuff may seem ego shattering. The history of science is the history of individuals being proven to be wrong. One theory after another. Even Einstein had to make late revisions to his Theory of Relativity to accommodate new data. So in my humble way I am in good company. I take no offense when I am wrong (well a bit) but I am willing to pull back and reexamine any theory I propose with new data that suggests something else. The important thing is to advance what we know. The way to do that is challenge each theory if you have data to the contrary, not with you are wrong and I am right (we have way too much of that with BF research), but with data that shows some theory that is held up as a solution, does not support the data. For those outside science this stuff is tedious. Science in general is lots of tedious grunt work dealing with data sets. Mostly things in science progress with baby steps not great leaps of brilliance.