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A good friend of mine is a former US Air Force SERE instructor. For those of you not familiar with the SERE program, it stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape. The SERE folks are responsible for teaching mostly military pilots how to survive and avoid capture if shot down over enemy territory. Their main school is in Spokane, Washington and they are frequently in the wilderness and being as stealthy as possible. My buddy brought in one of the maps that the US government issues to SERE people for use in training and agreed to let me take photos of it. This is an official US government map with a listing of known species that could be hazardous to personnel. Not sure if doe in jest, or is an official acknowledgement of their existence. The government never jokes about anything, in my experience from years of military and government service. I asked my buddy if he believed in Bigfoot and he nodded his head, but won't share the details.

Great read if you have the time. Thx Gig "Magraner was murdered in his home, at his desk, age 44, August 2002".

Yep. Absolutely actual photos I took while at work when he brought it in to teach me how to use a compass. I have had compass training years before in the military, but seeing as we worked a 12 hour shift together, we were both bored and he thought it fun to teach me SERE stuff. I learned how to get out of various bindings, navigation, fire starting, and edible plant info. Really just a tiny fraction of what this guy knows. If you watched the last season of "Alone" on Netflix, the SERE guy in that show is a friend of my friend.

^^^^ He is not jesting and don't call him Shirley. Roger and out..............

One only needs to filter one liter of water per sample. Not correct according to the scientists I talked to. That is the "TV" version of science. It takes more than just one cell's DNA to test, but because of the stream flows involved, the DNA is so dilute within the water source that a single liter will not have cells, thus DNA, for more than a small fraction of the critters that have been in contact with the water source. The real world scientists ... different than those TV actors ... filter thousands to tens of thousands of gallons of water to get enough DNA to test. Look, I made the same assumption you did. Probably watched the same TV shows. I had to change my view based on what real scientists said about real science in the real world. MIB

Shirley, you jest. (Who said DoD doesn't have a sense of humor? Just the acronym game is a freaking joke.)

Hey Wolfjewel…...good to hear from you:) Yeah, I never kill the snakes, and I am very good at identifying them, if I get bit, then that snake dies, but not creating any negative 'snake=karma' for now, an old Indian guy taught me that. First, my wolf Lulu likes your name, she's my hiking buddy for 9 years now, and unlike most dogs, she doesn't mind searching for the hairyman, plus she has the nose to find them, in fact....she might have rolled in fresh BT poo the other day, huge pile, and took me 15 minutes to scrub it off, what a weird smell too...….this kind of research I can do without! Here are some pics from the weekend; Pics 1-3 : A very fresh Sotol chew, wasn't there the day before, I know they love to scrap the tender white meat off the shoots with their teeth, but I find there chews too, are the big males doing that? They are always big, wouldn't want that in my mouth, lol, this one is in a baggie a still wet with spit. Pics 4 & 5 : Double prints from a trackway, big & juvie it appears to be Pics 6-11 : More big and small prints Last : For you Wolfjewel…..Lulu says "Howdy"