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May The 4th be with all y'all! I'm Michael from the USA. I have lurked here off and on for some time now. I'm an avid camper and follow the ultralight way of camping/hiking. I just enjoy the forest no matter what. Over the past few years I've unexpectedly - and later on expectedly - camped in areas where these critters live at. My first encounter was in the AM off trail where my daughter and I had something on 2 legs approach from a ways off, pace around our tent (I was petrified because no one would know where we were at), and leave. Then it came back as the sun was rising. Another time I seen one with blue-white color eyes reflecting the firelight and another with amber or orange colored eyes that same night. We were thinking it could have been a family group checking us out, and I am ashamed in a way to admit I had a light in my hand but never thought to shine it over there! I've several reports I've written in order to document things before I forget details and misremember how things went. I've come to realize that they seem very curious about who is in their forest and what we are doing and seem to test your awareness, attention, and feel you out before they may come closer. I've always been a believer since a little kid. But never, ever thought I'd end up somewhere around them. Thanks for reading and glad to be among knowers, believers, and skeptics.

I’ve had it! It reminds me a lot of our Scottish Highland meat we raise.

No, they're Plains Buffalo. We're going for meat animals, not tough old trophy bulls. Bison is superb eating, very lean, like deer or elk, and flavourful like Black Angus. It needs to be cooked like game meat, medium is perfect.

Elk in your pasture? A buddy and I just started planning a bison hunt in Northern Alberta this fall, to the same area where I got one back in '05.

I think it could go beyond that. Universities life blood is government funding. It would just take one phone call from a alphabet group to make anything they don’t like stop. Early on I never supported conspiracy theories much. But after watching swamp gas turn into tic tacs of a Super Hornet thermal? How long they were willing to discredit and drag decent people’s reputations through the mud simply because they witnessed something? Reading the 411 books and just that push back? Anything is possible. Right now I am of the opinion that they don’t want to say “Um so we have cannibalistic cave men running amok in our national forests and despite our best efforts they elude us so…….. enjoy your stay in Yosemite! Good luck!” Just like they didn’t want to say “Um we have space craft in our airspace that we cannot intercept and they turn our ICBM’s on and off at whim…. enjoy your flight to Disneyland! Fly safe…..maybe”. Same/same I could be 100% wrong of course.

Excuse me, xspider1, I practice what I preach as the saying goes. I have NEVER asked anyone to do anything I am not doing or have been doing. And I'm being "annoying" on purpose in an effort to motivate people to lose repeating the same MO that hasn't worked in decades. And that goes for either shooting one (proof- for a while anyway) or simply getting a clear photo or video (not proof- ever). Short of that,the other approach is two-fold: Be brave enough to confront agencies or find ways to collect DNA. BOTH knocking on doors and collecting DNA of which are well withing the grasp of just about EVERYONE no matter who they are or what level of experience they may have. I an only "annoying" to anyone that wants and prefers zero for progress and is somehow satisfied with current, obviously, non-productive approaches.

While this is excellent news and I enjoyed LMS (also own the book), I wonder what new research or evidence they can produce that will further the cause. I really don't think there has been any major discoveries of much relevance as of late or has there? What are they going to do? Rehash Patty for the millionth time? Reexamine the Sierra sounds once more? Do a deep dive into the Freeman footage? What more could be done that can go beyond the first LMS?