From Matt Moneymaker at the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO):

Environmental protection since the 1960′s has apparently succeeded in restoring forests and creeks in places where they had been previously devastated by over-use of the land for farming and logging and mining in the first half of the last century. Many of the oldest hunters in the midwest and south and eastern states especially will tell you how the wild animals had largely disappeared in the 1930′s, during the Great Depression, and then gradually made a comeback since then … to the point where the animals, trees and plants are more abundant today than they were in their youth. The oldest hunters in the western states (including Alaska), by contrast, will speak of greater abundance in the past, but the western states were not mowed down or mined or poached like the midwest, southern and eastern states.

The term ” the Halibut Effect” was coined by bigfoot researcher (and avid fisherman) Cliff Barackman to describe how large halibut can be found in areas where they were once caught frequently, but were thought to have been eradicated from over-fishing. As Cliff describes it, “You can go to a fishing spot where loads of large halibut were reeled in decades ago, and pretty well fished-out decades ago, and you can sometimes catch large halibut there today.”

You may or may not know that it is Perlowin season in New York this week:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
Perlowin/Dunn/Moritz/Pavone/Pride/Wick (w/Poetic Justice)
8PM @ Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass St #1
Brooklyn, NY 11217
R to Union

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31
Wick/Wooley (followed by Shane Perlowin, solo)
6PM @ Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe St
New York, NY 10002
F to East Broadway

Thank you for everything.