PsyOps in the American Forests -- Post Script to the PNW Series

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT is happening in our forests? 

QUALITY OF ARGUMENTS

The question is: can an organism not previously categorized be discovered in the North American continent? Sides have polarized in a way few subjects have commanded. One believes in circumstantial or lucky conditions to explain repeated findings, is reductionist without offering substantive alternatives, other than aforementioned luck, and very COMPLICATED in that it requires several things to happen in certain order, randomly but repeated similarly and simultaneously.

Another is evidence based, and growing in sample numbers every day; inclusive, taking underrepresented sources into account; agrees with all the evidence examined and accepted by multiple scientists; and adheres to Occam's razor, providing the simplest explanation (notwithstanding the recent questions regarding this tenet).

THINK OF IT

The practical nature in claiming any or all encounters and tracks have been faked is to claim that:

A person or group of people have been perfectly impersonating an 8 foot tall beast using a stretchy, hairy costume with muscles of Mr. Universe, running around usually at night, vision not impaired in the least, and who is perfectly agile on stilts with weights at the bottom to leave actual impressions professionally measured to have been up to about 1000 pounds each with strides 6 feet apart;

A person or group of people ascertained the plans of one or more famous explorers, and since the 1950s has laid tracks ahead of said famous exploerers to fool them just for fun, letting them take the credit for being the first ones up those mountains;

A person or group of people ascertained the location of police and sheriff vehicles, placing enough individuals around the boundary of their routes, spending many nights and lucky guesses in order  to fake encounters with them WHEREVER and IF they may be answering the call of nature, and as with many hunters, knowing full well and of their own sound mind choosing to face the consequences of running up on the best armed and the most highly trained people who carry authority to respond how they see fit;

A person or group of people continue to ascertain the plans of outdoorsmen on any planned and unplanned trips into the wilds of the extreme north American continent, making the same tracks over all the beaches all at once the day before, just so wherever the boat happened to be landing, there would be a discovery;

Snow crushed the trees together in geometric shapes, breaking off all the needles/ branches neatly;

Wind blew only this tree in a 45 degree angle, in a group of many, sometimes without killing it;

Treefall caught these flexible trees, notching them into arches with other trees or windfall;

Puma, acting unnaturally in typical recorded behavior of burying their kills, and demonstrating they're selectively at times bionically stronger than their typical pull weight of about 70 lbs.;

Wolves, which have been absent until recently found in the single digits in the South Cascades;

Coyote, giving up normal behavior, apparently bringing knives to dinner;

Elk, confused and stumbling up a tree, pooped from up there all night.

 

THESE ONE IN A MILLION OCCURRENCES HAPPEN EVERY DAY 

AND HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR MILLENNIA

WHAT STANDARD IS APPROPIRATE

The lowest standard of proof in the legal world is termed Preponderance of the Evidence. This standard comes into play when evidence demonstrates the claims have a greater than 50% chance to be true,  and is considred satisfied if it can be demonstrated it is more likely to be true than not true.This is baseline proof that gets people in jail. There is a greater standard that is applied in capital offense cases, although more vague, stating the evidence needs to be Clear and Convincing. We must then determine this definition, which states we must demonstrate that it is "highly and substantially" more probable to be true than not true. The next and highest standard, utiilized in criminal cases, is termed Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, defined as sufficient proof such that no other plausible account or conclusion is possible.

The critical mind observes that in the legal arena, one simple obstacle that is overcome in each instance is how that judge or that jury sees the body of evidence. If they are more than half sure, someone goes to jail and /or pays lots of money.  If they "feel satisfied" that the evidence is highly and substantially more probable than the mere 50 %,  or are convinced  "no other plausible conclusion exists," this person is convicted of serious crimes and may even get a lethal injection. Eyewitnesses aren't required for the death penalty; recordings, material findings -- no particular recipe is required, just that whatever IS presented needs to give people various degrees of certainty.

The inquiring mind then sees that greater than 5% of death row cases alone are overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct, namely withholding favorable evidence and making improper arguments. This number does not reflect any misconduct in cases other than capital punishment. In looking just a little further, we see the ugly truth play out that humans themselves are unjust in judging, letting irrelevant factors determine whether someone is sentenced to death. Studies show that misperception, gender and race bias, and even geography, are 'constitutional problems' and have been commented on by the late Justice Bader Ginsberg when she said, "I have yet to see a death case among the dozens com­ing to the Supreme Court... in which the defen­dant was well rep­re­sent­ed at tri­al.”

Tens of thousands of people have made sworn statements about their experiences with very real animals, and hundreds of eyewitness accounts around the world match over time --  more than enough, when properly and academically examined, to put thousands of people in prison or to death, if this were a trial --  just nowhere near good enough to acknowledge the existence of an organism. Thank goodness this crowd was not there to give Darwin their lack of approval of his measly drawings and observations. How many species were acknowledged and categorized when a retired minister drew pictures in his little journal. Most people in the world will never see a komodo, gorilla, or leatherback. They usually don't get a vote on scientific discovery validation, the way they  signal disapproval of the subject, but then again their voting is not appropriate. Invalidating tens of thousands of sightings is equally inappropriate, especially in light of the weight the law gives it when a man's life is at stake. 

Cryptids were organisms deemed by science to be 'cryptic' in nature: those who hide all too well, camouflage expertly, and are active in places or times not normally accessible by humans. One could argue that all animals we discover from here on out would be considered cryptids. Reports and other material findings go for years only to be thwarted and ridiculed hen we persevere in its detection. We have since discovered gorillas and other creatures we used to also christen 'mythological.' The poorly weighted arguments of many, and the silencing of voices, is added to the purposeful subterfuge by multiple authorities. You can identify them by their need for codes of silence and losing materials turned in by the public, or denying access altogether. If it was a new species of frog, instead of a bipedal intelligence, would this precipitate the same type of response?

 

 

 

When you can't deny it, lean into it! Joke publication

 

 

 

 

There is no extant source or credit given for what is on this other joke publication

 

 

 

 

A dog supposedly crawled 28 feet up a hollow tree and got stuck, mummified

 

Whoever depends on them for food is hurting this year

 

 

 

 

 

Many closures this year during migration times

 

 

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Paleo-ontological Ecology of the PNW: Part Three

Here we focus on what constitutes evidence, which is defined as "the available body of facts or information indicating whether an assertion is true or valid." In particular to our topic, an unacknowledged species living in North America, let's review what we know about the animals in this Neo-arctic biome. Sightings, pictures, or carcasses of large animals, or any animals for that matter, are bonus, but not required as proof they inhabit an area, if sufficient signs and markings are present that typically indicate such. This can include, but not be limited to: their scat, their leftovers, and other signs of activities of daily life. Wildlife biologists and ecologists accept these as evidence the animal is present, as do park rangers, and act accordingly in the protection of both humans enjoying a day at the park, and the safety of the animal populations in question. The amount and age of the evidence will determine numbers, length of stay, perhaps whether it is migratory or not (requiring longer term monitoring and knowlege of potentially distant resources) or was maybe just a fluke appearance. This is textbook for hobby sightseers and professional wildlife management alike, as a general rule and common practice.

 

 

Information below comes mostly from the Mountain Lion Foundation

SCAT 

 Raccoons frequently use the same potty location, and hence, their feces are discovered in huge piles known as latrines. Coyote poop is also cylindrical and may include the same items as bear scat, while both bobcats and mountain lions poop in segments. Coyotes frequently deposit their piles of scat in the middle of pathways as a territorial sign, cylindrical and about 3 to 5 inches long and 3/4 inches wide. It is left behind as a tubular, knotted rope with a twisted end that sets it apart from the bear’s plain, blunt tubes. Bears consume a lot of grass and insects in the spring, which causes their excrement to frequently be green and cylindrical with grass visible. Bear scats tend to be looser and larger in the late summer and early fall, with noticeable berries and apple fragments.
 

Bear-like in shape but smaller in size, coyote poop is cylindrical and is about 3 to 5 inches long and 3/4 inches wide. It is left behind as a tubular, knotted rope with a twisted end that sets it apart from the bear’s plain, blunt tubes. Coyotes frequently deposit their piles of scat in the middle of pathways as a territorial sign. As is typical for feline scat, bobcat scat is cylindrical like a bear’s but smaller, more circular, and divided. When you tread on it, it won’t compress because it is incredibly dense. The scat is 0.5 to 1 inch wide and 3 to 5 inches long. It also has hair and bones and berries, fruit, and grass. Additionally, you might notice a scrape from the bobcat’s attempt to hide its scat. All these are readily available for viewing online.

If there were other apex animals, they would be leaving scat unidentifiable or at least confusing and difficult to categorize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 KILLS

BEAR leave deep tooth marks (about ½-inch in diameter) on the neck directly behind the ears on the carcass. On large animals, look for large marks from claws (½ inch between individual marks) on the shoulders and sides. After an animal is killed, a black bear typically will open the body cavity and remove the internal organs. The liver and other vital organs are eaten first, followed by the hindquarters. Udders of lactating females are consumed. Predation by bears must be distinguished from attacks by coyotes or dogs. COYOTES typically attack the throat of their prey. DOGS chase their prey, often slashing the hind legs and mutilating the animal. Tooth marks on the back of the neck usually are not found on kills made by coyotes and dogs. Claw marks are less prominent on kills by coyotes or dogs, if visible at all.  Livestock behave differently when attacked by bears. Sheep tend to bunch when they are approached, and three or more often will be killed in a small area. Cattle tend to scatter when a bear approaches usually resulting in the death of a single animal. Hogs evade bears in the open, and are more often killed when they are confined. Horses rarely are killed by bears, but they do get clawed on the sides.  

MOUNTAIN LION kills are typically found under brush, shrubs, and trees. They don't leave their food under open sky, but cover the carcass with leaves, sticks, and grass. Around the stash can also show the raking of the paws in the dirt as the lion pulled debris over it. The lions nip deer fur from their kills, leaving a telltale incisor - shaved tufts around the area about 1" across. The feeding begins at the ribs, eating the lungs, heart, and liver first. The stomach will be missing, as the cats remove it upon opening the chest cavity to prevent the contents from spoiling the meat, since it takes a few days to eat it all. The spine and partial skull will be ingested to gain nutrition from the marrow that the cats cannot synthesize for themselves.When left to their meal, a mountain lion leaves the toothy part of the skull, the tail and the legs.

If there were other apex animals, they would be leaving kills that are outside the norm, or at least confusing and difficult to categorize.

 

This kill was attributed to coyotes.

These were attributed to cougars.

 

 

This was attributed to getting antlers stuck in the branches and dying in a fire.

 

They said this deer got its head stuck between the trees and died.
 

 

 

Not to hammer it too heavily, but in case anyone else needed to see more experts weigh in or any confusion remained about what puma do in North America:

 

 

 

 

 

FOSSILS, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, RECORDINGS

The Mammoth Steppe was a complex biome that changed over time and across the region. This resulted in a mosaic-like ecosystem that varied in response to a constantly changing climate. During the Pleistocene, the climate changed much more dramatically than it has during the last 10,000 years, the period known as the Holocene, a remarkably stable climatic period compared to the preceding million years or so. The unstable climate of the Pleistocene caused rapid changes in the plant communities and thus forage for megafaunal herbivores. Abundance and distributions of these animals would have varied in response to the changes. Being large, the megafauna would have been able to move across the landscape tracking favorable patches of habitat both seasonally and over longer time scales.

This was a complete ecosystem of megafauna with herbivores and the predators that consumed them. Like most ecosystems, there were many more herbivores than carnivores. The giant short-faced bears may have mostly scavenged already-dead herbivores (Matheus 1995), but brown bears, lions, and wolves undoubtedly hunted and killed their prey. Radiocarbon dates suggest the lions may have specialized in hunting horses, which coincidentally comprise more than half of the number represented in the cave paintings to date. It is also interesting to note the location of the entrances to some of these caves is what rules out homo sapiens for access, which could be answered by this hominid and their purported abilities. We have an abundance of fossils with a variety of speciation.

There can be too much emphasis placed on using fossils for any argument. C-14 analysis is effective for bones up to about 45,000 years old; older bones do not retain enough carbon to be dated using this method. Unfortunately, there are no effective techniques for dating bones older than this, so many finds on file remain silent as to their age. Then there is the barrier of cost -- hundreds of dollars per sample. A true scientist has to ask themselves, what is the statistical significance of data from such a small sample number of available or appropriate sources, if  the result is such a low confidence figure that it's rendered tantamount to useless? 

Especially in light of other, much larger sample numbers of sources that have been not just accepted by courts of law, but encouraged -- and sometimes, by subpoena, REQUIRED. These are thousands of pictures, videos, and recorded sounds, plus hundreds of thousands of matching eyewitness accounts around the world, spanning hundreds of years into historical texts. There's more proof that a human-ape hybrid type hominid extisted, and continues to exist, than there is about the life of Jesus. The rational mind has to ask why one is acceptable and the other is denied, and they don't even correlate to the side with the larger body of supporting information. It would appear on the surface that any argument relying on absence of information from a mode as problematic as fossils and carbon dating has nothing to offer as an explanation here or move us forward.

Ultimately, Geiss was a believer in the ability of the White Tail deer species to adapt and overcome -- how equally applicable and appropriate is it to say of any higher-end species trying to thrive these days than "I hold out hope based on all the above that whitetails can take whatever is thrown at them, that even human ignorance can’t end a multi-million-year-old survival specialist."  Some years after this article came out, here we are, watching the populations strain:

Lindsay Thomas, Jr.,  an editor of multiple deer-focal magazines (among other things) concluded his article The Oldest Deer on Earth with a gentle warning that there are "new threats" that individually have been unsuccessful, but compounded could net a future where only stabled deer exist, which would mean the extinction of anyone else depending on them. He writes, "I know many hunters yawn at the paleontology .... But knowing that whitetails are the oldest deer makes me feel an even greater responsibility to be a good steward of this animal. We hold no less obligation to protect other deer, other game species, or any other wildlife."

 

When we look back and see only one set of footprints in the sand, we will know we were poor stewards.

 

 

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TBD : Part 4: PsyOps in the American Forests -- Fodder for Thought