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I would SO do that. ...IF I had money. Perhaps PRIMARILY nocturnal.

I would say test for NOTCH2NL get a positive test. Repeat the test on a different sample and get a positive result. More tests from more locations the better. Then write a paper. Hopefully you can get a scientific journal to publish it. You would not even need to mention sasquatch in the paper. Just say you have positive evidence that chimpanzees, gorillas or a similar novel primate is roaming the woods of the PNW. Disotell, Meldrum, and Major are not going to stick their neck out but you can. The difficult part is finding a location where you can get the materials to test. Should you get published the ball will be in the court of the detractors. So often in science those that pursue to destroy some theory by doing their own testing, often support the theory with their findings. People like Disotell, and Sykes are going to need evidence crammed down their throat.

Correct. She used the excuse that Genbank only accepts known species....which is BS. They didn’t accept her work because it was garbage. It didn’t show a biological creature. It was bits and pieces of a bunch of known animals. I like conspiracy theories as much as the next guy. But in the case of Ketchum? Pure snake oil salesmen!

Scientists at the level of Sykes are puffed up egotists that will go for the jugular of anyone that disputes their theories. For some reason it is not enough to simply prove your scientific competition wrong, but throughout the history of science, many want to destroy those with opposing theories. The common myth of Edison being a jovial inventor belies the fact that he was in a fight with those who advocated for alternating current rather than Edisons direct current electric company. Alternating current is certainly safer and allows more efficient transmission of electricity, which Edison probably realized at the time, but accepting he was wrong could cost him to loose his business. He killed an elephant by electrocution to prove how dangerous alternating current was. In reality it is much safer than direct current.

Human fricassee......garnished with skunk cabbage and a dollop of frozen wild huckleberries.

My trip out today was a solo run, as my son's lady friend had other plans for him, and the other guys in my group were also all otherwise occupied, as well as another member on this board who PMed me, but we couldn't make our schedules mesh. It was a beautiful blue sky day, but we still have the very stiff winds and cold temps, so my treks away from the car were fairly short. I took one of my favourite side trails off the main logging road, and about 4 km in, found a group of guys with an impromptu range set up, and a nice array of guns and optics, so I stopped and chatted for a while, but didn't join in the target shooting, as I had left the house with my rifle, and my ammo box stayed on the bench by the door, where I had forgotten it! Getting old has its moments for me !! My next turn off was to the small lake that I had mentioned in my post on page 34, so that I could take another pic of the spot where some of you had seen a blobsquatch in one of my photos. I duplicated the same shot today, and can confirm that the same dark blob is still in the same position, so it's a stump, or a VERY patient sasquatch. Again, there was a family, mom, dad, and 3 teens, with a target set up for .22 plinking. They finished a couple of 5 round clips, then packed up so I could continue my walk past them to the pond area. Back on the main logging road, I found the next few side valleys gated, including one that I had gone into for the first time in years, on my last trip out with my son (P 34). I did find another road near there, up another creek valley, that had been locked in the past, but was open today, so I ventured up it, only to find a 14" dia. deadfall across it at the 2km marker. I got out my 18" Homelite chainsaw, and struggled with it for 20 minutes without getting it started. I think I over primed it, as when I got home and took it into the communal workshop in my building, it fired right up on the 3rd pull. ARGHHHH My only wildlife sighting was a skinny looking grouse, that flushed off the road before I could get my camera on it. Still a nice day to be out in the timber, with fresh air and soul satisfying scenery. In order of appearance: Waterfall almost entirely frozen View down a side trail, looking west across the lake A stretch of the logging road used as a small aircraft runway for a logging camp The small lake I showed on p.34, with the same evergreen and dark blob on the far side Mountains down the lake to the north More of the mountains to the north Icicles on a cliff face. One of the gated roads Deadfall across the trail Mt Cheam from the schoolyard in the village of Aggissiz at sunset on the way home. .

I would not go on a BFRO expedition. But to quote John Wayne..... “A man oughta do what he thinks is right.”