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Just affirming what gigantor said. Anybody can post events to this thread as it is a community calendar kind of thing. I know there are several that want to keep this thread pure. I am not averse to discussion of philosophies of Sasquatch, but in this thread it will NOT be about whether they exist or not. Trolls and discussions of that manner/matter will be edited or deleted. Threads about Sasquatch presentations in the conference room/the field and what the opinions are of the presenters may be welcome but this will not be a Denialist Fest thread. Thanks and I will do my best to make personal contacts at the conferences letting people know what the BFF would like to see from them in the way of follow-up to this thread on gigantors suggestion. If this is not in keeping with what the director and admin wants please feel free to edit my oversight.. Sorry for sitting on my haunches lately and not being as active posting to the thread of late. Thanks to gigantor about the suggestion, I will work on it in advance of the conference and try to print up a business card for the BFF (humor). biped

I'll be in Hawaii this year. We rented a house on the beach last year just up the coast from the casino and saw lots of Elk and the worlds largest Sitka spruce as well as played on the beach and ate good seafood. We also got to meet Bob Gimlin, and buy some goodies. It was fun.

p.s. I'm sure the admins will guarantee a question/answer format that prevents trolls from harassing the presenters....

I wish I could go to this event. All of the best will be there! Meldrum, Gimlin, Barackman, Paulides, Noel, Randles, Ellis, Baker, Powell, Townsend, Edwards and Johnson. Sadly, no skeptics are scheduled to present a counter point of view for this event, so it will be a one sided affair. Still, it should be a treat for those who can attend. I highly recommend it if you can make it. I beg the presenters to please post a synopsis of the event in this thread after it is concluded so we can discuss it. It would also be beneficial for everyone if the presenters would make themselves available in this thread to answer questions from the membership. Thanks!

I keep dreaming of getting one to understand that I like shiny gold nuggets. They would have little use for them and if anyone knows where to find them it would be BF. They have to have an incredible knowledge of the mountains and woods.

Apparently, the Paiute did - caught up with what was believe the be the last ones troubling them in a cave. Set a big fire at the cave entrance, killed the red giants that came out, while the others died inside. They had plagued the Paiute for decades, but they finally seem to have wiped out the local population of red-haired giants. So that shoots down your first postulation - and then we have other narratives of Native Americans, including Inuit of them killing these things that were tormenting them. One doesn't take toddlers hunting - at least none of the guys I've ever hunted with did. And if 10% of the narratives of folks getting the crap scared out of them - including kids at schools - are true, your next postulation falls apart. I see you're big on practicing. Practicing this, practicing that. Each spring around here, the birds lay eggs, and the eggs hatch and there are baby birds in the nest. I must get real busy or am not paying attention, but somehow, year after year, I miss these young birds going through flight school. Somehow I miss all the instruction, and all the practice. But then one day, they must graduate from flight school - as they're just gone. Same with mountain goats. Those little bitty mountain goats are jumping around on a few square inches of rock like they've been doing it all their lives - and somehow, we seem to not be able to film or otherwise document their leaping training, their jumping skill training, and their escape tactics. How can we miss all that? Oh. That's right. There are lots of reports of these things barely avoiding traffic on a highway - sometimes getting hit! And sometimes getting shot while snooping around a house. Your postulations/questions ignore the fact that many of the projections you suggest - occur. Here's the deal. Nature has her ways.

Well, CM, one can elect to ignore centuries of narratives I suppose. One can ignore the tapestries, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and metal pressings that depict these attacks in Europe, one can ignore the multiple narratives in the Himalayas of attacks on humans, one can ignore the narratives of attacks on humans in eastern Russia around the Ural Mountains, one can ignore all the Native American tribes narratives of kidnappings and attacks on humans, but to do so would indicate to me that one is ignoring a significant repository of human experiences. When the same, identical narratives are shared across continents, spread over millennia, and were experienced and reported without contact from other peoples and again separated by continents - well - I find that a bit fascinating. Different peoples describe the same appearances, the same behaviors, and even draw the same things. If one's criteria for proof is a video - a very recent technology - you're going to miss a lot of data.