My skepticism is not about the existence of Sasquatch. Living all my life in Washington and hearing BF encounters first hand from very respectable people, I give it a very good chance of actually being real. I have had my own encounter with something while camping in a remote area near the now famous Skookum Meadow in Skamania County, when we were woken early in the morning by very loud vocalizations.
What I am skeptical about is Todd Standing. He has tried to pass off poorly hoaxed stuff before. He is just improving on what he has done before. In the world of Big Foot research once a hoaxer always a hoaxer. His films and photos, even these latest are not being taken seriously on the Bigfoot research web pages.
I live in WA and also have heard stories from respectable people. I recall one time a game warden friend had to back out on a job he was going to help us with. He was going down with another guy from the state and a Univ. of Washington scientist of some sort to SW Washington.
Seems a farmer saw a Bigfoot climb over a fence and it left some hair.
All he said about it was “Oh, we just do it to keep the farmer happy.” (3 guys, 3-4 hour drive, lab samples, etc. - just to “keep some farmer happy”??)
I recall back before Y2K they were refitting one of the old missle silos outside of Kenmore for a government communications site. (It was in the paper). I mentioned it to him (he lived in Kenmore) and he said “Oh? Uh, never neard of it.” (But he could tell you about every little back road and trail everywhere else in three counties!)