[pct-l] Searching for Bigfoot

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Hey, thru and section hikers!  Yes, you too can help a bunch of 5th through 
8th graders find Bigfoot!  Keep an eye out around Mt. Hood.  (I knew that the 
people around Portland are a bit weird, but now comes this?)

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Most scientists doubt the beast exists, but looking for it is a good way to 
get children interested in science, says Steve Robertson, education director 
for the Audubon Society of Portland. "We don't want to give people the wrong 
idea, that the Audubon Society believes there's a Sasquatch," Robertson says. 
"The idea is to use the Bigfoot as a vehicle to increase children's 
wilderness awareness skills, to get them to carefully interpret the animal 
signs they encounter." The weeklong camp, called "Bigfoot:, Fact of Fiction," 
begins Aug. 21. Students in fifth through eighth grade will look for signs of 
the creature - hair, scat or broken branches - in the foothills of Mount Hood 
in Oregon and Mount St. Helens in Washington. If they're lucky enough to find 
a Sasquatch footprint, they'll make a plaster cast. If they actually 
encounter Bigfoot, they'll have a video camera to capture it on tape. "We're 
going to take a real nonbiased look at this, just listen to people, evaluate 
evidence as it is presented, and do a minisearch ourselves," Robertson said. 
Bigfoot has an edge when it comes to keeping youngsters alert in the forest, 
Robertson says. "Picture going out looking for a black-capped chickadee in 
the afternoon; then picture going out in the woods in the dark at 10 o'clock 
at night looking for Sasquatch. You're going to be as aware as you've ever 
been." [Source: Mercury News]
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