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With Sat Comms hopefully Im done hiking!🤣

I think that you are being overly suspicious and paranoid. Now, while I have you here...we need to talk about an issue with your social security number which, if left unattended, will cause the IRS to issue a warrant for your arrest...

I voted other to see the results, as I'm not even familiar with everything listed. I was encouraged to see only a few people have voted and most don't care.

Yes! Those are called ground cherries. The are great for jam, jellies, tarts, and wine making. Also a valuable source of nearly year round occuring natural sugars.

Hey folks, im going to start making some accessories that would likely be of interest to a lot of you. Im going to be life casting some trees to get natural bark pattterns for about 5 species to start out. These castings will be used to make sound dampaning, camouflage for your trailcams and remote audio divices. If you guys have specific species you would like to see targeted let me know, also let me know what trail cams a lot of you use, going to make them for the most commonly used cams first.

I think I can speak for the Chinese Yeren, as I was the BFRO investigator in China, while I was living and working there. There have been many, many sightings, including by politicians, and the military, in China. The government has organized, I think 3, major expeditions so far. All of them have had at least a platoon of armed PLA soldiers. On one such expedition, "rounds were fired downrange", but the members were too shocked/scared to even come close to hitting their target (Yeren). It was a clear sighting, with no mistake as to what they were seeing. I even managed an email interview with a Yeren investigator. Sort of a Chinese "Matt Moneymaker", of sorts (if you can imagine that LOL). This gentleman had a sighting many, many years ago, as a young man. It stayed with him, and his remembrances of the creature were so vivid that he eventually quit his job and took up field researching full-time. He would not bathe for 2 weeks before going out, and would spend up to 3 months in the bush of Shenongjia Nature Preserve, with a homemade black powder rifle, hoping for another encounter. He eventually did have one where the creature charged him, but since it was the rainy season, his powder was wet, and the gun wouldn't fire. The Yeren stopped about 15 feet away from him, turned, and went off into the forest. It was an extremely interesting interview ... until he got to the point where he was praising the Party, and asking for funding and equipment from me. The government of China DOES acknowledge the existence of a "bipedal human-like creature" in the forests of Shenongjia, but not publicly. The nearest major city to the area is Wuhan, and there is a professor at the University of Wuhan that does keep track of sightings, as far as he is able, but I have never been able to make contact with him.