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it is hard as heck to tell from a pic what is real and what has been hoaxed on prints. Questions you may ask yourself though are what is the traffic like in this area, if it is light then the likelyhood it being planted is pretty remote.Who wants to go to all the trouble of setting up a hoax for nobody to find. Did anyone else know you were going through here? Does anyone else do this type research in the area to your knowledge? I'm finding single prints and I'm reasonably certain they aren't planted as they are imperfect, usually partials. Was the print perfect or was it slightly distorted? If someone were going to go to the trouble of hoaxing a print, I would think they wouldn't think to make it a legible partial or imperfect. For me to judge a print as the real deal I probably would need to see it firsthand.I'm NOT an expert tracker. Therefore even then my word wouldn't amount to much more than an opinion.