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Back in 2016 Thomas Steenburg was approached by a television producer from APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) about appearing in an episode of Red Earth Uncovered, a native take on monsters and mysteries. He accepted, and asked me, as an eyewitness, if I would like to be a part of the effort. I accepted, and we were both interviewed at Thomas' place. Another lady, a local native women who had reported her sighting to Thomas, was also included in the show. I met this brave, and articulate lady during the recording of an episode of Finding Bigfoot, and came to know her story well. Sadly, she became very ill with cancer not long after the Red Earth episode, and lost her battle with that nasty disease before the show was aired here in BC earlier tonight. I was also recovering from major cancer surgery at the time of recording, and look quite pale and ill on the show. The story is a 2 part adventure of a young native women who is sent on a modern day quest to learn about the creature that appears in so many native stories, all over North America, and comes to Harrison Lake, B.C. to start her search for the truth. The show is done with respect for both the subject, and for the people telling the story, so I think it's worth a watch,in spite of my appearing briefly in it. The only downside I see in it is the title, "Hairy in Harrison", which seems to be a poke at "Harry and the Hendersons". Trailers found here: http://redearth.tv/videos/

I re-read the "Petition" earlier today, there is no mention whatsoever of "Licenses." or any claims that one has been denied or is pending. I owned and operated a service business in my town (in California) for over 20 years. Here is what is required for me to operate: 1) I go down to City Hall and pay for my Business License. I renew it once a year. 2) I pay State Income Tax to the State of California once a year or make estimated quarterly payments. 3) That's it, nothing else... There are any number of crystal healers, Reiki practitioners and other assorted woo peddlers in this town who do the same. Unless things have changed, there is no special licensing requirement in the State of California for the type of enterprise that Ms. Ackley would like to operate.. This from 2016: https://engagingplaces.net/2016/02/11/should-tour-guides-be-tested-and-certified/ "At the end of last month, the California Tour Guide Act (AB 836) died in committee in the California State Capitol. If it had passed, it would have established a “tour guide certification program” through the California Travel and Tourism Commission to test and certify persons who “practice tour guiding for compensation” (it would exempt guides who work at museums and amusement parks)." Ms. Ackley states in her Petition: "Petitioner is unable to take people out on wildlife viewing expeditions as a commercial recreational operator to view and interact with Sasquatch in the same way that paid guides take people out to see other wildlife in guided adventure tourism activities in defined operating areas because the public and/or government would conceivably believe that Petitioners' activities would be fraudulent due to Respondent's denial of the existence of Sasquatch, which is an infringement of Petitioner's right to operate such a commercial recreational wildlife viewing enterprise." As far as I can tell Ms.Ackley is free to run her "business" at her own risk. Just like any other enterprise, it will either succeed or fail based on its own merits.

^^^ What licensing issue are you referring to? Here in California a business license is simple to get from the local government. Are you saying that she needs a State License to operate this "business"? If so, Why?

Yes, I heard that error, too. She seemed to imply that the clip shown was of John Green at Bluff Creek, and that he was there at the time of the PGF filming, which is, of course, not the case. The Kilby Museum is focused on general local history, not specifically Sasquatch, so I assume that she (museum lady) was not up to speed on the details of who was where and when. I believe that John's family had donated his research and artifacts to Kilby shortly after his passing, which was not long before that show was recorded. There is now a better display in a room at the Harrison tourist info centre. The production crew, which your picture above shows with Thomas and Vera, spent half a day with him, and a further couple of hours with me, and with Vera, and it all gets edited down to just minutes on the show, with us, the subjects, getting no preview of what they choose, or how they put that together for the episode. Of the three times that I've been involved in TV productions with Thomas and Bill Miller, that's the first one where I didn't get completely edited out, so I finally got my 30 seconds of fame. ;-)

A lot of what's being discussed in this thread was discussed and debated at length in another thread here: http://bigfootforums.com/topic/54895-how-to-mathematically-separate-the-wheat-from-the-chaff/?page=1 I highly recommend that anyone interested in these aspects of the field read through that thread. My primary contribution was a research paper that touched on Bigfoot's population distribution, black bear misidentification, etc.