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The North American Plate including the Russian Far East. The Lake El'gygytgyn location is shown. 3.58 million year old, never been glaciated lake. The Russian Far East also had GLOF activity. Lots of history washed out to sea. The Russian Far East has Kimberlite pipe structure and that means diamond mines. The water table interferes with the deep open pit mining activity and the mines have a short life. I do not have any info on surface altitude changes related to GIA for this area.

Thanks. We have a mountain of video, audio, photos, track casts, etc. But all we really need is physical proof. A bone, flesh, a body or parts thereof. Would blow the lid off this thing. Until then science is like “cool story bro”!

^^^^ I think there would be some uptick of people who ARE hunters who would go out looking for Bigfoot. I think many non-hunters will suddenly become interested in trying to shoot bigfoot. Whatever the numbers, it would be a significant uptick in the number of people running around in the woods. Unlike the hunters, these guys are a danger. A dangerous situation would emerge. There would be some people wanting to 'cash in' on Bigfoot. The bst way to do it is to shoot one. I also believe the woods would increase the number of brave looky-lous who would just want to see one. There would be a big increase the number of people who might also try to cash in by just filming Bigfoot. Think of a lot more Roger Pattersons out there. They wouldn't be armed but might look like Bigfoot to some Wanna-Be who thought they looked like Bigfoot. If the hunt of Bigfoot was solely experienced hunters, I doubt there is anything to worry about even with a large increase in number. I just think there would be an infusion of wanna-be-hunters and thousands armed with a camera tying to get bigfoot on video. Too many people with a itchy trigger shaking the bushes and trees would result in some mistaken identity shootings. Think of the movie Jaws. They put out the reward and the entire bay was full of wanna-bees tying to bag the shark.

Go for the ice calculations. I have a worksheet with basic values of global ice volume, ocean volume, volume of ice to volume of water. One of these days I will crunch numbers to see how many inches that the sea level will rise if the ice melts. If the fear factor squad wants to worry about sea level change, I have a suggestion. Pump salt water into the Sahara Desert / northern Africa and create a salt brine shrimp fishery. Novel fish farming, food, employment. The Great Salt Lake has / had a brine shrimp fishery but I don't know the current status. Sea level is a relative value. When the lithosphere is pushed towards the forebulges, land rises. Years ago, IIRC the NOAA ship Davidson did coring work in the Bering straight. They pulled up grasses, sedges, pollen, insect exoskeletons which are normal land types. They needed to go deeper. The value of 425' sea level change is suspect. Did they calculate forebulge movement? I am not following your 60,000' comment. Was that a typo? 11,000' perhaps. It does not snow in the interior of Antarctica. That is a good example of terrain-altitude weather activity. If snow does not occur in the interior of Antarctica, where did all that ice come from? The ice sheets did not 'crush' the mountains. The crust flexes under weight and moves viscoelastic lithosphere material away from the load point. With the load gone, lithosphere material seeks equilibrium and the mountain altitude changes. Mountains were formed from lithosphere pressure to the crust. A good exercise would be to examine altitude changes of Mt. Everest, Denali and Mt. Rainier. There are sea shells at the top of Everest. The debate about land travelers across Beringia ( both ways ) rages on and we have not got to the 'travel by boat' debates.

The North American Plate and Ice sheet of the Last Glacial Maximum. I did the outlines by hand and I either needed more coffee or less coffee. Red continuous line is the North American Plate and the white line is the estimated extent of the ice sheet. Lac de Gras, NWT, Canada is shown. Lac de Gras is a Kimberlite pipe region with about 150 'pipes' the last time that I checked. Kimberlite pipes go down about 3 times deeper than a volcano. For my theoretical idea, I assume that substantial vertical crust displacement occurred with glacial loading and that crust rebound measurements verify the displacement. With maximum ice thickness close to Alaska, the GLOF, Glacial Lake Outburst Floods rinsed the Pleistocene flora and fauna from the landscape into the oceans and created faunal flood deposits in the Fairbanks area. GLOF are very good for creating a jumbled up mass of different animal bones. Loess is scattered also. The creation of the faunal bone depositories has been a mystery and many believed Tsunami action was the cause. Tsunami would approach from the wrong / opposite direction. The destruction from GLOF action is beyond belief. In modern times, the GLOF at Hubbard Glacier was monitored. Hubbard Glacier GLOF was miniscule. Juneau Alaska had damage from a GLOF recently. Over time, Beringia altitude changes. With glaciation, animals travel back and forth. With deglaciation, travel is limited / cut off.