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Guess some kind of hard-sided structure plus fencing stands to be damaged without security too, where does it all end?! Put something on wheels and they haul it away even in a post-Helene environment like Western NC! 70K and 720 donations said to be 90% of goal now, bravo!

That sucks! What kinds of low-lifes would do that. I've signal boosted their link in several places online.

Wear this from ASAT camo and you will gain more than 10 seconds.

No. The defective humans should not be close to any SAR scenario. They should be taken to the deepest, darkest place of Skamania county, relieved of all electronics, fire starters, foot ware, socks and doused with vegetable oil. Skamania County bush justice. I donated. People are good at falling off of cliffs, going over waterfalls and getting lost. Very few are able to execute self extraction. The equipment is not common and they will make errors.

I got out for the day with MagniAesir on a deer hunting/sasquatch seeking adventure. It was a fine fall day, with sunshine most of the day, after the morning overcast and mist dissipated, but no critters of any kind were spotted. We did encounter snowy trails at the higher elevations in the valleys off the east side of Harrison Lake, where we saw some older deer and canid tracks, but nothing fresh at all.

Got the lift done and new tires installed, so did an off-road trip yesterday. Perfect conditions for tracks, so checked out all the good spots for potential tracks. Tons of elk and deer, and couple of moose tracks, but no predators or Bigfoot sign. Lots of hunters. The Jeep did amazing and I didn't have to use 4x4 all day. Did a YouTube video of the trip...

I did 30 miles through the woods today. My new Jeep is at the dealer getting a new lift kit installed, so decided to take the Tundra into the Idaho woods to scout out some challenging trails for the Jeep, and to see if I could find anything squatchy. Lots of recent rains, so prime conditions for fresh tracks. Not a single sighting of even a deer. Saw at least a dozen hunters, but no game. Found some great off-road trails and did some hiking, but no tracks. The area is known as Gold Hill and is reasonably remote. Beautiful area, but no sign.

@Backdoc Great questions, and it's not unusual for folks in this community to be confused about issues of DNA. For one, most of the info floating around the BF community is misinformation (most of it hopefully unintentionally so). It is also difficult for folks to understand (without actually knowing about DNA methods) why scientists can do some almost "magical" things with DNA in some areas and yet other areas of knowledge are not yet well fleshed out at all. I check in on the BFF only every few months to see what folks are asking/posting that's DNA-related. Not bragging, but stating a fact: I am the only one leading credible DNA study of potential Sasquatch samples: https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/darbyorcutt/ Please LMK what questions you may have, as I'm sure others have the same ones. Cliff Barackman wants me to come back on his podcast soon, and I want to address the things that things that folks in the BF community are wondering about. The *brief* answers to your questions are: 1) There has been very little credible testing of potential BF DNA, period. Cliff mentioned my work on tracking down prior testing during his last Q&A podcast. Most "results" are rumors, misunderstandings, or made-for-TV fictions or spin. 2) Yes, if Bigfoot is indeed an unknown species, we'd absolutely be able to tell that if we were presented with BF DNA samples. That said, depending on what a potential such species actually were, it might require a qualified team actually really looking for such to find it (which is one of the reasons I started this project). 3) Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques are extremely powerful for looking for *known* DNA sequences, which is why the almost magical examples that you mention (Covid detection in wastewater, Grizzly detection in the wild). Generally speaking, eDNA is an exceedingly much harder path towards discovery of new species. Darby Orcutt NC State University