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My opinion is the Skookum Impression was made by an elk, not a bigfoot.

You do know what was left in the impression was elk, deer, bear, coyote hair, and a hair from one of the men at the site? The majority of the hair collected was from an elk. http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/skookum-cast-hair.htm So a sasquatch leaves hair from other animals but not its own when it lies down in the mud? Did Daris Swindler say this or did you come up with it all on your own?

The hairy people are not lynxes or fish. They are people. As long as you continue to confuse basic human rights issues – the right to be treated with basic common decency, and the right to be left alone – with wildlife management issues, you will continue to remain in the darkness in which you currently find yourself.

No doubt your mind HAS been "blanked"! (Thank you, Gene Rayburn!) MIB

Well there is one angle that hasn't been considered. A Squatch rode into the area on his Elk, saw a nice mud pit to flop around in and circled around the spot, jumped off the Elk into the mud and dined on an apple, then grabbed it by the antlers and pulled itself back up, and rode out of the area on the Elk again. They're known to do that.

Oh! Bye, Trogluddite. You're going on ignore. May the world be kind to you.

The key to learning where they can be studied, such as it is, is to stop ridiculing habituators. It's not just the scoftics and denialists, honest skeptics and outright believers who insist on "ape camp" thinking are just as much part of the problem when their rude jabs drive away the very witnesses that have the information that could solve the puzzle. Quite a few years ago now a researcher suggested we'd be ahead to look at cultural anthropology instead of wildlife biology. That is insightful even today but it was radically insightful at the time and drew no end of ire. I agreed then, I agree now. The behaviors I've experienced are not the behaviors of mere dumb animals. There's a gray area inhabited by big, hairy, seemingly technologically primitive, but otherwise quite sophisticated bipeds. We can't see them because on the whole we refuse to look where they are, we only look where we dare to find them ... in the confines of the paradigms we're comfortable with. MIB

Because that is the word THEY choose to use to describe themselves. Your beef with DWA gets in the way of your otherwise clear thinking. If you wish to call someone out for misuse of the term "skeptic", start with the denialists and scoftics who hide their activities behind it. They're the ones misusing it and challenging others to respond on their terms. MIB