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Just make sure to read the first two missing 411 books before you go:}

I found this latest Podcast interesting, they discuss a camera trap project they started with some interesting new twists. They decided to saturate a relatively small area, and most fascinating to me is they disabled the IR on all the units since the suspicion is they can detect that. Quite a trade off- no night shots! Also, that means much longer battery life so they can leave them alone for months at a time. http://nawac.podbean.com/

Nah, save them to read at night in your tent as your flashlight batteries slowly fade. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

Our group often overnights in BF areas (We hope, it's where I had a sighting and found a snow trackway years ago). The local night life includes black bear, cougar, deer, bobcat, lynx, and noisy owls. Some of us tent camp, but since I now have trouble bending/kneeling, I use the back of my SUV. It keeps the bugs off, and allows 360* vision. We usually carry bear spray and rifles/shotguns when hiking. Cougar visits at dusk have been the most exciting encounters so far.

We get into semantic games. Definitely if you go far enough back, the ancestors were from Africa, but depending on which expert you listen to .. and they all have degrees enough to back their claims .. those ancestors were or were not "human" yet , so it might also be equally right to say HUMANS developed in many places. One of the things that seems to keep coming up which is inconvenient for people who like nice neat packages for easy consumption is that we seem to have more people crossing oceans they "shouldn't be able to cross" than expected. If you are good at filtering fact from interpretation, I do highly recommend reading Lloyd Pye and Zacheria Sitchin. The facts of seemingly shared archeology across groups that "couldn't" have communicated is indeed interesting. You can decide for yourself among 3 choices ... 1) ancient aliens, 2) ancient humans were more mobile than we think, and 3) parallel development. (I suppose a 4th argument would be that the stuff is not as similar as claimed.) I'm not claiming anything specific, just saying the story we believe about how humans arrived where we are now seemingly can't be accurate, it requires deliberate, careful omission of inconvenient data that is just as solid as the stuff we choose to keep. "hmmmmm ...." MIB

Seems to me if you call it in, then no, they do not take it seriously most of the time. However, if you talk to them one on one, especially in high sighting areas, a lot of the time you get a much different reaction. At least that is what I have gleaned from reading many, many reports.