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Where I live, just South of Mt St Helens, the snow level much of the winter is close to 2000 feet. It goes up and down about 500 feet and much of that area is closed off for the winter. Forest gates are locked and there is no access until late spring or sometimes into June and the forest service reluctantly opens things up for the summer. That keeps the idiots from going out and getting stuck in the snow. An elk hunter is missing Northeast of me right now. They have found his vehicle in two feet of snow and no evidence he ever returned to it. Locked gates, also keeps most people out of the bush in the truly remote areas. So I disagree that there are a lot of people in river valleys in Western WA, even in the winter. People who are not aviators probably do not know when the valleys get cold, foggy and below freezing, at 4000 to 5000 feet, the temperature can be up in the high 40s and sunny. BF have to know and use this to their advantage. That does not mean the snow goes away at that elevation, only that higher might be warmer as long as the surface inversion continues. Lack of BF footprints in an area means lack of BF. That is my criteria for an active area. They might be there but not very often or very many. If BF are there in any numbers, they make mistakes and leave footprints. I have more footprint finds than I have years in the field looking for them so they are not all that rare in some areas. But when an area goes inactive for whatever reason, they abruptly stop or get very difficult to find. That in my experience in this area, sudden BF inactivity is directly related to human activity like logging.

One who has had experience with this creature I can say is that AAWA is just another opinion on what they perceive them to not be. NA clearly calls them spirits of the forest as in the way they approach us as Humans. Can we ever confirm them to be flesh and blood ? maybe But if they live in between worlds as in flesh and blood and the spirit world, Then How will we ever confirm their reality to this world. One cannot change what has been experienced and deny it's reality. It has to be " tested for one self " in order to understand that it is a reality based on truth.

You may claim to see it clearly but you are clearly incorrect, LT... The full quote from AAWA you are referring to is: Who would believe that a 1000 lb creature which speaks telepathically, transforms into trees and teleports, actually exists in ordinary reality? Not you; not me. And I am pretty sure even “they” don’t believe it. To tell you, sadly, would end their notoriety and small pocket of fame. I can see how AAWA’s comments could offend you if you believed Bigfoot was a 1000lb telepathic creature that can teleport and transform into trees. Do you or are you just being precious? If you truly cannot understand why “regular folk” find it hard to believe what some people profess to believe about Bigfoot then there’s not much I can say to help… Aside from doubting the sincerity of telepathic-teleporting-transformer-Bigfoot proponents, AAWA does not question the sincerity of people who claim to have seen Bigfoot and certainly does not call them “liars”. AAWA explains that because of the reality and power of encountering Bigfoot, the experience is (quite understandably) misunderstood… I will say that I’m a bit surprised to the negative reaction to this article. There are plenty here who claim to know, either via their own experience or their research, to “know” what Bigfoot is and are quick to dismiss anything that threatens their claim to expertise (like AAWA’s article). Yet not one can actually support their claim with anything objective. Maybe AAWA can. Why not? After all, it accounts for both what was seen/experienced and why there is no objective evidence. This is not an “its-just-all-in-your-head” skeptical dismissal, this is an affirmation of the reality of the phenomenon from someone with experience and who has access to traditional knowledge. Best of all, perhaps AAWA’s claims can be tested for oneself… I’ll make contact with AAWA in the new year and ask if she’d like to join this forum to address those of us with questions in this particular thread. Are there any here who haven’t commented yet who might be interested in that or would I just be wasting my time?

Not yet, things are still in the works as far as the DNA aspect. Derek Randles and Shane Corson presented with an update on the situation at the international Bigfoot Conference in Yakima a couple months ago. We are still monitoring the area. This may have already been covered here as I only skimmed through the thread.