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I have a partial/potential answer to the first one. A friend's brother worked for a wildlife agency, not sure if it was state or federal. They found a track line and followed it 3/4ths of a mile. They said that the tracks went over a log about 4 feet high without disturbing the snow on top. No slipping, no sliding, no apparent struggle with the snow despite the guys having some trouble not winding up on their butts. When his brother mentioned it at work, he was told if he reported it, he would be fired, somehow "with cause", thus he'd lose both his job and his pension. I'm familiar with the general location .. at least I know which canyon they were in .. and it fits right in with our other current thread about where they go in winter. I think that addresses at least a component of who the scientists are and what is done to keep it quiet. The rest I think is just through leveraging public ridicule for the topic. They get more mileage out of letting us show our tries and failures, shenanigans within the community, and other things that heap general ridicule on the topic that stop people from taking it seriously than they would from overt effort to suppress all discussion. Trying to suppress all discussion might draw attention of people wondering why that effort is being made which might cause some people who are otherwise oblivious to take a more serious look .. in other words, trying to silence us rather than letting us look like fools might be counter-productive.

Raincoast Sasquatch details a 1988 nest find on Prince of Wales Island that was intentionally kept low key by the finder (to keep people off private native lands). He (a timber cruiser contracted by the native corporation) reported it to the native land owners. The native group brought a state and federal authority to the nest. The state representation was F&W biologist, and the fed was a forestry official. A scat sample was collected and sent to the crime lab in Anchorage. Supposedly, it wasn't matchable to any known wildlife known to be in the region, and it was supposedly "thrown out". Does this pass the smell test? Not in my view. But does it fit a conspiracy theory of government discouraging discovery? It fits like a tailored glove...........

There’s a disaster waiting to happen. But the silver lining will be predators eating an occasional liberal.

The kids have the ranch. I am now in Newport on my wife’s parents property. 2 hours away. I am not hunting because of my chest. My cousin is gonna start bow hunting this week. I am feeding in Newport, just because we like to watch the animals even though I am not hunting. The ranch feeds cows and horses so the animals kinda come in for some scraps.

I didn’t know what I was looking at. But now that I do know? It’s not even close.

i enjoyed it, i also helped contribute a little as well. he lives about 4 miles from me and we work a lot of same areas over time. its a deep dive on the regions ecology and why its as good area to support this kind of creature, as well as having some good case files in it as well.