David Paulides

publicity, a lot of people interested, a lot of activity.

And then with time, within about 10, 15 days, all of that would end.

And he said, we got concerned and we did a Freedom of Information Act against our own agency to get the reports and we couldn't get the reports.

And then we did a Freedom of Information Act request on other cases and we couldn't get the reports.

And we got concerned because after that initial 10, 14-day period of searching is all over, there's nothing else that happens.

That's it.

And he said, somebody ought to look into this because there's a lot of people missing and the Park Service doesn't talk about it.

I think all of the above.

He thought that there were too many people going missing.

There wasn't enough follow-up being done.

And nobody seemed to care.

Yeah.

But one thing I learned from being around rangers in all these years now is that there's few things that belong to us that we go into the woods with that are always going to be there.

Namely our shoes.

Belt buckles.

Belt buckles.

Leather anything.

the rubber waistband of your underwear, these kind of things stay forever.

A rifle, a pistol, a bow.

And those things you're going to find.