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Just sent John a email with the comments above, hope you don't mind, thought he might appreciate the kind words an thoughts. Pat...

Received a email from John this mornin', his chemo an radiation treatments are no longer effective, it's a pain management thing now. If you know him or correspond with him, he has a laptop, if you'd like to say your piece...just lettin' yas know. He's done some great work over the years, two fascinatin' books, an has always been kind enough with his time. We don't always get our chances to say goodbye... Pat...

Very sorry to hear this news. Dr. Bindernagel's lifetime professional dedication to research in this field stands as both a brilliant legacy and hopefully an example to young scientists beginning their careers. My prayers go out to he and his family.

Thanks for the notice, Pat. I wish it were better news and I will continue to pray for him.

Cropped an tweaked sharpness, contrast a little. (click image for better view). Brian, Gimp is a free download for photo editin', it's what I use, pretty easy an handy an lots of tutorials on youtube.

Saddened to hear this. When I was younger I saw him on Creepy Canada and he was awesome. Truly one of the greats in the field.

I always love it when he is the guest on podcasts, so much energy and enthusiasm!

See link below for an interesting paper published back in 2009 in the Journal of Biogeography titled "Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modeling". Just ran into it recently, and while the paper was supposedly done tongue in cheek (because BF does not exist in Biology and because the database was not scientifically collected), the analytics were done as if the BFRO database was suitable. The authors state that the point of the paper was to show how a very sensible-looking well-performing Ecological Niche Model can be constructed from questionable observational data. Given all those caveats, some of the interesting conclusions from that Ecological Niche model (ENM) of BF were: BF should be broadly distributed in western North America, with a range comprising western NA mountain ranges such as the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, the southern Selkirk Mountains, and the Coastal Range of the Pacific Northwest. Precipitation of the coldest quarter was the bio-climatic variable that contributed most to the ENM, followed by temperature annual range, mean temperature of the wettest quarter, and means temperature of the driest quarter. The predicted distribution of Sasquatch appears similar to that which might be expected for other large mammals of western North American, including the American black bear.......The two species do not demonstrate significant niche differentiation with respect to the selected bio-climatic variables. Although it is possible that Sasquatch and U. americanus share such remarkable similar bio-climatic requirements, we nonetheless suspect that many Bigfoot sightings are, in fact, of black bear. I do not find it surprising that scientists looking at the available BFRO database find that sighting locations coincide with black bear habitat and then suggest that many of these BF reports are misidentification of black bear. It is the easy and non-controversial answer when crunching numbers from a database that is de-linked from the human stories and details that would have rejected the black bear. I agree with the authors that garbage in equals garbage out, and that ensuring the quality of the database is key before doing any analytics. Is the BFRO database 100% garbage? Probably not, but it does not meet the scientific standards required for these ecoological niche models. Nonetheless, we can use available databases with care and apply quality filters and then ask questions and looks for patterns. A link to the paper and access to the PDF file is below. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02152.x/full

I’m very sorry to hear this.

Sending Dr. Bindernagel prayers, strength & positive vibes to combat this horrible disease along with my utmost gratitude for his considerable contributions to the field of crytpo-hominology.

The pigs name is Harvey Swinestein?

Dr B has always been a class act. He was very interested in a couple of my encounters where chest slapping was done. Always interested, made notes as I talked, and I felt like he was genuinely interested in what I had to say. If we had another half dozen like him, BF research would surge forward. I pray for him and his family.

His first book made me feel comfortable speaking about my encounters with others.

I also wish him the best in his battle with this terrible disease, and hope and pray for a miracle for him. I truly sympathize with his struggle, having dealt with cancer for the last 6 years myself. Won a couple of the battles, not sure about the outcome of the war yet. Though I live only a few hours from him, I never got the opportunity to meet him, or see him at a conference, but several of my associates in this field know him, and tell me he's very dedicated to the subject, and a very nice guy. Very sad to lose a man like that.

I’m so very sorry to hear the news. Wishing him and his family the very best, and I personally thank him for all he has done for the Bigfoot phenomenon.

I just got the same Dear John letter from John who has been very ill and is on that slippery slope we all dread. I am going to re-send him the clearest sound file I have of a putative sasquatch screech (again since the scientist he referred me too didn't have the wherewithal to do anything with it. ) John is one of the most approachable of BF researchers and never hesitated to respond to emails or conversation building at conferences and stuff. In the end I will remember his attempt to have a PhD expert help with my sound file (rule-outs) as I am sure he attempted to help so many others. I re-read his two books much more than any other Sasquatch references that I have and I have several I refer to often. He can be reached at: bindernageljohn at gmail dot com or johnb at island dot net if you wish to contact him

Thank you, Pat. And yes, he has done great work. My respect for his courage as a crusader for Sasquatch existence knows no bounds.