Bigfoot is alive, and thriving on fresh salmon and butter clams in the Hoh Rain Forest. The Hoh Rainforest is on the flanks of the Olympic Mountains in Western Washington. Nearby where this picture was taken of the statue, there are plaster cast footprints, measuring 15 inches and 17 inches.

Just the thought of Alaska and salmon fishing in the same mental picture conjures images of grandeur, pristine forest, snowy peaks, and a pole bent double while the line rips through the water. Alaska salmon fishing has been discovered closer than you could expect and more beautiful than all the pictures you've seen.

Driving around King Salmon, Alaska at midnight I found this scene. To much description would ruin it.

DDT harmed falcons, sea lions, and salmon. In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting this abuse and painting so damning a picture that the chemical was eventually outlawed by most of the world. Exceptions were made for malaria control, but DDT became nearly impossible to procure. The ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children.

The picture says it all...

In Western cultures, the finger (as in giving someone the finger) is a well-known obscene hand gesture made by extending the middle finger of the hand while bending the other fingers into the palm. A known variation includes extending the thumb as well. A variation of the gesture is also made by showing someone the back of the hand, with three fingers extended, and telling the recipient to "read between the lines". Another variation includes folding the ring and index fingers alongside the middle finger.The gesture is also known as the "bird", "flipping the birdie", the "highway salute", "The New York Hello", "concert C", "sticking your middle finger up", "Showing Off Your Monkey", "The Canadian Turn Signal" "flipping/flicking someone off" and "the Supersucker Drive-By Blues". The gesture is mostly used as a non-verbal way of saying "fuck you". When both hands are used, it is known as the "double-barrel salute", the "double deuce", or the "dirty double". A more comical approach is to wiggle all five fingers and query, "Do you see these?" retracting all but the middle finger state, "Its a whole flock of these." (A distinct reference to the aforementioned "bird")In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the V sign (given with back of the hand towards the recipient) serves a similar purpose (primarily "f**k off"), whilst "the bird" is more often used for "up yours", "swivel on it", "sit and swivel on it" or "sit and spin".In eastern countries like Iran the "thumbs up" gesture means the same as "the finger" in western countries which can result in deep conflicts.In some African and Caribbean countries, the equivalent is extending all five digits, meaning "you have five fathers" (your mother is a whore).