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I used to think the worst we had to fear (as unsuspecting campers or vacationers) was black bear in NY state. To me, Bigfoot doesn't fall into another wild animal category. It is an intelligent apex predator! Further, most people think Bigfoot may only exist in the Pacific Northwest region. The numerous reports seen in every state are an eye opener...but you have to know how to look for them. So at the very least, I feel that the public should be warned of the potential at all State Parks. Without the creature being designated a true species (wood ape or human hybrid, etc.) most of us walk around the woods like prey. For me, my wood ventures are over. But how do I tell my five grandkids? It should be taught that way in school. Hopefully, we are close to some sort of crossroad.

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Hey, that reads like a book excerpt. I keep going back to how a capture/kill may steer public opinion. From my point of view, I am pissed off that I didn't know about these things for most of my life and consequently let my kids go off and play in the Adirondack woods like I did as a kid. We always lived in the suburbs so going to the mountains was a real treat for us. In fact, my only good recall of a possible encounter was in college in the Catskills when several of my buddies heard whispers in the wind and what I now know as "samurai chatter". It was so strange that I remember it today. I've read stories about possible encounters with school kids in the woods. Having your children in danger makes you real angry, real fast. Would we willingly do this if we knew of the possible dangers?

I've been looking at the NAWAC Web site and they look very organized. I remember reading something on Area X before so perhaps I missed the association. Coincidently, I happened to watch episode 8 of The Lowe Files last night called, "Wood Apes". Season 1 from 2017 is now available on Prime. The episode features the NAWAC and was very interesting! Do you have a link to this conclusion? I am not a hunter so I don't understand why an Elk would lay down to reach some apples. I think he was a country bumpkin without much technical expertise and stumbled across these creatures only because they were literally in his backyard. There were plenty of good looking casts made by others that visited his home unscheduled. Trusted or not, the creature videos seemed consistent with a Patty-like appearance and they weren't blob squatches. Do you have a list of evidence favorites? Cheers!

You just gave me an idea on how to take night pictures. Except for FLIR systems that cost 10s of thousands, the resolution of handheld FLIR systems is so poor, even if you imaged a BF, you could not learn much beyond height and shoulder width compared to trees etc. No details like facial features, hair, etc would be evident. Night photography using visible or UV light cameras is limited because of the inverse square rule. A light source light level drops off at a rapid pace related to the inverse square of the distance involved. However, if you have a camera taking pictures at intervals, like a Plotwater, and a rapidly spinning laser illuminating an area, the coherrent laser light light effectively illuminates an object at a much higher level because it has not spread out getting there. Perhaps the plotwatcher would get enough back scatter light to image something back in the woods. I have a plot watcher and a couple of laser lights so will run an experiment with a spinning laser. I need figure out a way to wobble it so it sort of illuminates in horizontal strips like a TV scan pattern. Mechanical wobble would be best because I can just spin the laser with a motor. News this morning out of Oklahoma. A state legislator has introduced a bill, allowing a Bigfoot hunting season in the state. The bill only allows trapping and provides a $25,000 bounty.

This is a photo from the areas in which I hunt, in an area with historical sightings and myths reaching back centuries, and not far from another area where a buddy saw what can only be described as a bigfoot while spring turkey hunting. It stalked within a few yards of him as he called turkey, and when he moved, it stood up and strode off with nary a sound. There's nothing to the photos other than a field of trees. Ain't they pretty? The tree I'm sitting in has been productive for me over the last 4 years, with a deer a year taken from it, and another dozen a year seen from it, so it's my favorite spot. General consensus is the deer population has plummeted over the decades, and hunter numbers/hours in this area are down. You see this reflected in camps with one deer hanging instead of 8, but some of that could be old timers cherry picking the best years (or those good years could be the cause of the current low population). It would take historic reports to determine harvest numbers. That said, no footprints noticed over the years, but I've heard branches break, trees fall on a dead still day, heard what sounded like conversation with no visible people, things like that. Nothing definitive. Unless you count footsteps that turn out to be a squirrel rummaging the underbrush. In the early part of the 20th century, the government reclaimed a bunch of farms all along the southern tier of western New York State. They planted pole pines by the hundred acre, and left other areas to wild-grow mixed hardwoods. The pines are often in regular shapes, rectangles, pines planted in rows. Some of the pines were planted too close together and have stunted growth because of it. When they thinned the pines or got the spacing right, the pines grew tall and straight. When they didn't, the pines interlace their branches and create a wall of annoyance. The nice thing about these dense pines is the deer love it. The bad thing about these dense pines is the deer love it. Either way, you don't sneak there, but the open hardwoods are easy to traverse. The deer traverse all of this with little problem, and often skirt the dense stuff picking a common trail in and out. Pretty nice of them. Water comes from ponds, springs, swamps and creeks are plentiful, loads of small game, fish, oak and other nut trees, and some farms. Population density is low, but you're never more than 2 or 3 miles from an occupied house or road I'll bet. We get out from 10 to 20 days a year, in two hours before sunrise, out at sunset.