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Operation Redwood Quest: Search for Answers

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A great introduction for children to explore perhaps the greatest and most fascinating unsolved mystery of our time.The author, "Ranger" Leiterman, who is a current Humboldt County resident and part-time bigfoot researcher, shares a wonderous, fictional bigfoot story that may parallel reality one day soon in the near future. An all-around great read for your children. Don't miss it!

Author uses his obvious knowledge of nature and the outdoors in a very creative and edifying manner. With some suspense and humor thrown in, this piece offers both child and adult alike some fun reading.

Despite the mouthful of title for this young adult novel, Leiterman finishes off his bigfoot trilogy. When a debate about old growth forests arises, a group of environmental activists called the Emerald Guardians hatch a plan to fake bigfoot sightings in order to have the timber company owned lands be declared off limits as a habitat for the creatures. Meanwhile the timber company hires local mill workers to scare of the newsmaking creatures to prevent just such an action. Meanwhile meanwhile, local mill workers opt to shoot the creature rather than scare it off so as to make more money. Unbeknownst to them, the creature they shoot is one of the activists dressed up in a bigfoot suit. On the other end of things, Ranger Roger has convinced his superviser to allow him to perform a field research to help answer questions about past sightings.

Overall, this book was far above the other two in the series. Leiterman finally got over his infatuation with the words 'mystery, adventure, and interesting'. However he still abuses the exclamation point, can't seem to use contractions during dialogue, and now repetitively uses the words 'mythical creature' and 'the woods he loved so much'. Thankfully, the Backer family only has cameo appearances. Still, the story itself was believable and flowed fairly well. Kids with an interest in bigfoot should thoroughly enjoy this whole series.