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Hello Madison5716: Much of the upper Clackamas burned last year. The road is closed at the Willamette National Forest line and probably will be for at least another year. The middle Clackamas road suffers land slides as rain accumulates and there's nothing to hold the hillsides. So, please check with me or the USFS as to what's open. If you are planning a trip, there are other ways into the forest. Let me know. Was only up 4 nights this year, plus 3 nights out from Beachfoot. However, since I "grew up" only 40 airmiles east of Beachfoot in the Coast Range, I guide people around up there, so in a way that counts. Plus I show people how to night walk, etc. Can tell funny stories on that. Still in physical therapy since August, can you believe it? Can finally put my socks on without going through contortions, get into the cab of my truck the right way {not jacked up}, and can walk downstairs the usual way {with a banister}, and often up stairs. I'm very lucky I'm not a two wheeler, thank goodness. Moral of the story: Be careful up the hill. Fortunately I have insurance. Hay, if anyone has Tomas Steenburg's contact, please let me know. Regards Your Supreme Carelessness. Ps: Was to change "4 trips" to "4 nights". I've been up a bunch of day trips. Already planning for 2023 ! Really planning.

I have not smoked a wolf yet. I was told moose calf distress calls turn them on. They are more cagey on the Idaho side of the line. So right now bud I am using a Foxpro electronic caller and a moose decoy. All bought from Cabelas. I would suppose that Elk would work as well. Gonna go out again this week. 🤞🏻 Ive called in Bear, Bobcat and Coyote. Mostly with rabbit distress calls.

Nice. I think I'd like to give predator hunting a go this winter. Put a deposit on a 2023 Skidoo Expedition 900 a few days ago (expected delivery within a couple weeks) and I've got a rifle that I'm confident with to 800 metres or so. Do you use an electronic call? Any tips for a new guy?

Same here. It's my belief that government as an agency, not most of those within government, knows these creatures exist, and they're determined to suppress discovery. Thus, they will never acknowledge their existence. Getting documented denials might hold some promise later to show this cinspiracy, but even then, I doubt it. Any documented denial is almost sure to have escape terms; ".......bigfoot isn't documented......", ".......there is no proof of their existence.......", ".......we do not believe.........", etc. I support Hiflier getting documented denials, and he might even get other interesting statements and information doing this, but I personally won't be involved.

'llWhile there's is the side of evolution characterized by gradual adaptation to better function within a stable habitat, you guys seem to be overlooking a factor that lends itself to much faster evolution, namely bottlenecks, where a majority of the species is selected(dies off) leaving a remnant population that survived either due to geographic isolation or a mutation that somehow facilitated their continued survival through a sudden event or shift in a habitat, which is then spread through the breeding of the remaining individuals to become prevalent within the population of the new resurgence of the species. It's through a series of bottleneck events that evolution can seem to proceed at an accelerated rate, effecting changes much faster than is seen in "typical" selective evolution.

Vaccines "were linked" to autism, too. The very "scientific" war being waged right now with our daily lives can be directly linked to the supposed link to autism. Science is the latest, greatest religion, and I do not worship at its altar. AFAIC, "proof" of anything is elusive at best, "evidence" is the best one can get, and my suspicion and doubt have grown to epic proportions. Firstly, yes, snow goggles are to prevent snow blindness in the spring. Winter is a L O N G period with no light whatsoever. The sun goes down in mid-November and doesn't come back up for three full months. In summer the snow is gone, so goggles are not needed. The point is that Inuit eyes didn't evolve to deal with the extreme of darkness, but with the extreme of light. Secondly, Neanderthals living "deep within caves and forests" is assumed. Their bones have been found in caves, but so are the bones of all other predators of the era. Caves provide the better conditions for fossil and artifact preservation. As the life of a nomadic hunter/gatherer would demand, Neanderthals hunted/gathered in the forests, steppes, mountains, seashores, tundra, etc. Accepting the theory of darkness because of habitat while simultaneously rejecting Danny Vendramini's "Them & Us" theory of nocturnal hunter evolution is extremely weak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles Like vaccines?: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02989-9