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I take comfort in that. If I had their approval, I would have something to be worried about. I'm ok with that, too. I don't do group-think or truth-by-consensus. If I'm the last person, standing alone, so be it ... I'll just be motivated to try even harder. I'm world-class when it comes to stubborn. JREF are contemptible but they play effective psychological games with the fearful. This hail-Mary, last gasp vibe is foolish. It's not even half-time yet. Contrary to what they want us to believe, our team is ahead, the only one with points on the board. All they have is denial. We don't need a hail-Mary, all we have to do is continue with our game plan, continue doing what we're doing, and we'll end the game with a win. There is no desperation, only in their words and in the doubts we let them tell us we have. Just keep doing what you're doing. Let the fools be fools, let the haters be haters. I'll keep doing what I do, you keep doing what YOU do. We'll see who has the last laugh. MIB

I'm not familiar with the Paul Vella you refer to, but I was briefly acquainted with a Paul Vella who had one of the coolest jobs ever; investigating terrorist bombings (and other terrorist acts like assassinations) for DoD, then experimenting with ordnance of all kinds (including their own IEDs fashioned after terrorist IEDs, or what they expected people to build) to figure out a new anti-terrorist engineering strategy. That aside, you're probably aware of the "little people" legends among Alaska native beliefs and oral history. "The Strangest Story Ever Told", centered on Thomas Bay in southeast Alaska involved such creatures. Stories of little people abound in western Alaska from the Kuskokwim delta north to the Arctic Ocean coast above Kotz. In fact, other than the "Strangest Story" being set in southeast Alaska, native stories tend to put sasquatches along the Gulf of Alaska coast and interior Alaska regions, and little people along the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean coasts.

SWWASAS: Like a lot of “footers” you have a similar problem of a plethora of stories with no evidence.

When my area was active and I was finding footprints every few months I never found any structures other than rock stacks on stumps and that was some distance from the most active part of the research area. So I am guessing that structures are regional. While many of the lean to structures would not do anything to keep out rain, if covered with snow, they would become snow cave like structures and provide some warmth. We were taught to build similar stuff in Air Force Survival school. I wonder if the structures are above the snow line more often than not? My research area was about 2000 feet and in and out of snow all winter without much in the way of accumulation.

Funny how the government only wants to get involved in BF related issues when it is looking for someone to fine or charge with a crime for building stick structures in the woods. I want to be there when they try to arrest a 10 foot BF.