Dear Lost in the Ozone Again,
Go back a few pages and start reading. The existing 1984 revised ordinance (post #885) which is not word by word listed on the internet by Skamania County, is nevertheless law regardless of whether it was codiefied or not. Lochnar in post #887 found where it was listed in Skamania County Ordinances. Several claimed that since the ordinance was listed as "not codified", then it was not law. The code is for other things than listing the specific details of ordinances, apparently. This bigfoot ordinance that was originally written in 1969 and then revised in 1984, has been common knowledge amongst bigfooters in the west. It is written about in a number of publications. Even if I were to spend the time to visit the Skamania County courthouse and get a copy of the ordinance, have it scanned and put on the internet, any skeptic could then claim that I fabricated it myself. Using that skeptic type of reasoning, very little accepted knowledge can be proven, because the complaining skeptic would have to be present as the chain of evidence is developed to provide the proof to that individual skeptic. Which is impractical at best. After all, who is going to foot the bill for an endeavor such as this, especially when the skeptic has no authority whatsoever and his entire resume consists of owning both a computer and an internet connection. So some ascertations have to rely on the predominance of evidence, which is the Skamania Ordinance being referenced in their code and the corresponding Ordinance appearing at several locations on the internet. This story is resolved.