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My book about Port Chatham will be released this month. I'm having an online release party if any of you are interested. We will be giving away copies of the book and other fun stuff. Here is a link for the Facebook release party: https://fb.me/e/13zr5kVTq It will also be live on Youtube and hopefully, Instagram. March 20th 2021 at 3pm AKDT.

I would respectfully disagree with Dr Krantz on this one. Critters with the hindgut fermenter do not have ripped abs, rather, they have a "pus gut" like a gorilla, like the suit from Letters to the Big Man depicts ... inaccurately. Patty, though bulky does not have the distribution of bulk appropriate to that gut structure. The two I saw .. the littler one was built like a tight end, the bigger one like a beast of a fullback, neither like a sumo wrestler. I'm going to say, with as much confidence as you can have short of dissecting one, that Dr Krantz was mistaken. I'm going to say omnivore. Everything suggests whatever bears eat, bigfoots eat, and vice versa. To beat a dead horse further, omnivores like bears do not have that hindgut fermenter. What they eat is what is available .. and lots of it. Since the areas where I've seen bigfoots (not many, don't read too much into that) were not torn to shreds as they'd have been had a strict herbivore like gorillas had lived there, I believe the meat component of the diet may be well over 50%. MIB

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014/ Scientists cannot agree on the timing, either. Last summer, research reported in Nature Communications pushed likely dates for domestication further back into the past, suggesting that dogs were domesticated just once at least 20,000 but likely closer to 40,000 years ago. Comparing these genomes with many wolves and modern dog breeds suggested that dogs were domesticated in Asia, at least 14,000 years ago, and their lineages split some 14,000 to 6,400 years ago into East Asian and Western Eurasian dogs , But because dog fossils apparently older than these dates have been found in Europe, the authors theorize that wolves may have been domesticated twice, though the European branch didn’t survive to contribute much to today’s dogs.

My son and our friend have started a business together. Selkirk Outfitters Right now they are a custom fab shop. But are gearing up to focus on overlanding. Their current project is building a aluminum flatbed for a Toyota Hilux that used to be a Tokyo fire truck. The customer is a long range shooter that travels to competitions. They have also built custom bumpers for people. As well as boat tops. My 2013 Dodge Ram 3500 is next on the list! If you have a project your thinking about for getting deep into the back woods? Give them a shout! Wyatt 509-690-4140

A significant percentage of sightings are from vehicles traveling on highways and back roads. In fact, they may very well be a better sasquatch video investment than a game cam. In addition to possibly capturing a video of a sasquatch, a dash cam can save your bacon in legal disputes involving vehicular accidents, and they can provide the authorities with evidence in other events on the highway. They even record audio when you get stopped by police and are initially questioned from the drivers seat. You might even be able to sell videos to news agencies. This poll is to satisfy my curiosity on the potential percentage of people out there with dash cams. Please click the appropriate answer.

Let's face it, predation is violent. Even a Robin getting a worm is a violent act. And as humanely as we try to hunt, or science collects a species, they are violent acts. It's the way of the world. We cannot all be Jainists who practice Ahimsa.

^** Dont forget the Zagnut bars!

Here's the trailer for the book.

Congratulations on the book release, Beans! Will a Kindle edition be released as well?

It’s not me that is bringing outdated facts to the debate. It’s you. 1997? That’s a long time ago. Look at my article dates..... 2021. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264329-humans-may-have-domesticated-dogs-by-accident-by-sharing-excess-meat/ DNA supports a split between Wolves and Dogs up to 40,000 years ago. No bone morphology needed. Also no one is claiming that the dogs directly killed Neanderthals.....LOL. They are not suggesting a mass Cujo event with Neanderthal clans with their throats ripped out laying around the campfire. Dogs were another tool, like the throwing stick and dart, that gave human hunters the edge over Neanderthal hunters. And incrementally over many thousands of years that human success ended in tragedy for the Neanderthals.

Nope ... not exactly stalled out, but pretty nearly. I simply don't spend the time in the woods I did up 'til about 3 years ago. New relationship, change of responsibilities. Last year, for the first time since 2011, I went through my favorite area to research, in what should have been peak season, and had exactly NOTHING happen, not even a suspicious possibility. Nothing to suggest anything changed, just ... empty. I wouldn't draw any huge conclusions from it yet, gotta see what the next couple years bring. There are some candidate possibilities if it does repeat though. The biggest one, IMHO, is a series of fires over the past 6-7 years which burned a bare swath across the Cascades leaving no cover up high for anything / anyone moving north/south, rather, to stay under cover, a person (etc :)) would have to travel quite a distance east or west around the edges of the burned area. MIB

The report from Greenbush is the one where the guy thought it could be moose, and I suppose that is a possibility in either case. The guy from Spectacle Pond sounds as if he'd spent a good bit of time in the woods, longtime hunter etc. I'd assume he'd vet that option and judge accordingly but that's the thing with class B, who really knows. I've had a few close run-ins with moose in alder thickets though I've never heard them knock trees but I don't think it's out of their range of behavior during the Fall. Thing is, the guy reporting said the whack came from just inside the treeline, which was 15yds from where he was standing so maybe 60' away and he heard no other movement. If the guy has spent that much time in the woods, 50+ years, I'd be inclined to take his word that this was something different, especially since it knocked it's way out. I emailed the bfro and asked them to hand off my contact info, I'd like to talk to the guy, not holding my breath though.

No, your theory was discredited circa 1997 when it was found all dogs originated in Asia 15,000 years ago. Paleo dogs were a once off thing like you say. Three Paleo dogs for the entire Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the Dordogne river valley is no proof they were ever widespread. The Upper Paleolithic alone covered more time than has elapsed since the Upper Paleolithic ended. It would take a huge dog population to impact Neanderthals, spreading from Ireland to Pakistan. They would have to appear in the correct time frame. You would have to explain why something as valuable as killer dogs which somehow killed the Neanderthals then turned around and went extinct for another 15,000 years. You would have to explain the mechanism by which caused this. Maybe you don't know this but in the Dordogne region, modern humans inhabited the plains above the river valley and only gradually, over centuries, encroached in the valley itself where the Neanderthals held sway. They were functioning in two separate biomes for the most part. Apparently, this revolved around ownership of the rock shelters themselves. Dordogne River valley is the most excavated area for Middle and Upper Paleolithic cultures in the world. Marcellin Boule began in the 19th Century and dug up every rock shelter he could find. Francois Bordres did the same in the 1950s to 1970s. Then the Americans James Sackett and Louis and Sally Binford took over. There really is not much untouched left. Your theory does not put dogs in association with Neanderthals. It does not document a population of dogs which was widespread and extensive enough to impact Neanderthals (or anything else). You theory is a dead end as far as modern dogs are concerned. Somehow, your only proof revolves around the existence of these dogs themselves as if their existence magically proves other things. I have a better one for you. During Magdalenian times in this same area, cave areas set aside, looking like enclosures, were found. Reindeer were a staple in Magdalenian times. Does that mean the Magdalenians domesticated reindeer? There is more proof there than in your theory. Something else you missed: how do you distinguish a dog from a wolf with only bones? Do you know? I know, and your sources, the archaeologists, have not demonstrated that threshold. Dogs and wolves get mixed up all the time. There were "short faced wolves" in Alaska which Dr. Jennifer Leonard recently DNA tested and turned out to be dogs. Wolves have a huge size variation, 175 pounds for Mackenzie River area in Canada to 70 pounds for wolves in eastern Greenland. Positive ID is only with the skull or DNA in the time frame under study. You have a long, long way to go.