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Nobody appreciates dismissiveness (just ask my wife), but moving on.... The greater probability is the Petition will be dismissed on a procedural point not touching on the merits of the claim that BF exists. This will be a disappointment to proponents who will conclude the court was doing the bidding of the powers-that-be to squelch information. Opponents will claim this is an affirmation that BF does not exist. Both will probably be wrong about their conclusions. I wish for my prediction of this outcome to be wrong as well. We shall see.

Those are fair criticisms, these guys could perhaps benefit from a little stricter methodology at times. On the other hand, the goal of these field videos is to be immersive and illustrative, and I don't know if spending time measuring a footprint (for example) will translate well. Maybe. But at any rate, I think the current direction on youtube is extremely positive and productive. I've been meaning to see if I can get a little discussion going on Christopher Noel's recent podcast, which is 5 eps in, The Nearness of You, I'll just link the first ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsPfjg3jxZg& It sort of serves as a weekly intro to various youtubers, with a common thread of sasquatch at the boundaries of human populations. But it could be better served in the Urban Bigfoot thread, not sure. There's plenty to be said more generally about the current youtube BF community and what they're doing for BF research. Other favorites are Utah Sasquatch and Colorado Bigfoot.

I do not discount various accounts of BF harming people. I’m sure it’s happened. I specifically used the word “confirmed” in my post for a reason. I’m guessing hearsay and conjecture are probably not going to fly in this instance.

I do expect people to disagree. That's what a Forum is for. But what Norseman and Squatchy McSquatch wrote was beyond just disagreeing. There was no call for the tone or wording they chose to use. Disagreeing and snarkiness do not have to be synonymous. They of course are welcome to an opinion like me and everyone else but there is nothing that says I need to suffer their condescending slants and slights in silence. I gave as I got.

hiflier, your on a public forum stating your opinion. Expect some people to disagree. And I’d hardly call it people coming out of the woodwork when we are all pretty much regulars here that have been commenting.

Referring to the OP, Desert Sasquatch has some interesting stuff, but he is very weak on any documentation and pans over it so quickly it's hard to see what he is seeing at times. I don't know if he even said what size those tracks were except smaller. Maybe I missed it. As far as using those trees, it seems like a stretch to me. Too small and far apart. Especially for the subject he seems to be showing in his stills. Although he does mention a lot of broken branches possibly being the result of using them. I have to wonder if he was expecting boot tracks because that was his excuse for walking on them before looking at them closely. I see him crossing tracks in the video and not even taking the effort to look at them. Not much of a tracker in my opinion. Most of these Youtubers must have the gift of gab to talk the whole time they are videoing. But I guess that's what makes it interesting enough for others to watch.

Well, Squatchy, there is an old expression in the law..."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary writs". Actually, no, I just made that up, but I sort of like the ring of it, you know? Well.. none of them, but all of them too. To the Judges who were compelled to rule or had their rulings overturned, what my clients were asking was on a level of declaring BF to exist, and it was being denied just as strongly. But o.k., yeah, a long-shot, Sure. It still is an intriguing and uncertain thing though. Like I said, IF it survives the initial challenges there could very well be an evidentiary hearing. You can count on a judge to look for a way to summarily rule as it would preclude having to address the merits of the allegations...the one thing every Judge I've known considered to always be the best of all possible outcomes when confronted with a sticky situation. If it does survive? I've been saying for years around here that there is a legal preponderance of admissible evidence for the existence of BF out there. If that could actually find its way into a courtroom, and a writ is issued for the State of California to recognize the creature it would not be binding on anybody or any government outside of the scope of the Order. What it would do though is open up a much, much broader conversation about it and force many who don't dwell in this space to lift their heads up and consider it. Personally, I think I know what results when that happens. Substitute "race relations", "procreation" and "sexual orientation" for "biology" in that sentence Norseman and you'll have described three landmark US Supreme Court decisions addressing what had previously not been considered to be civil affairs. I get what you are saying, but what I think you are missing is it possibly could be both.

This is not how to go about species recognition..... right between a Homicide case and a Fraud case? Biology is the question here....it’s not a civil affair.