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Hey MIB thanks for the in-depth description of the bigfoot trap that sounds like it was up the Applegate canyon somewhere. It good to hear some accurate history. I was raised in Medford, and headed up to the Applegate River to swim and explore during the summers especially in 1965 when I was a senior in high school. Later after I graduated from the U of O in Eugene, my past wife and I hiked a trail beginning close to the river and went up and over the mountain to the Oregon Caves before I knew about bigfoot. If someone wants to study bigfoot that would be a good area for the event. As far as crossing Interstate 5 highway, if bigfoots are smart which they seem to be they would cross at night when there is no traffic. There are also reports of them crossing highways when there is traffic so who knows how they think.    Why do you think the Forest Service refuses to publish studies on bigfoot when they hire many credentialed wildlife biologist? Their job is to set aside land for logging and to look out for the well being of forest animals. Skilled foresters and wildlife biologist hired by the forest service could make logging and bigfoot compatible. After a clear cut, the deer flock in to eat the tender leaves off the brush which is a win win situation. Hunters might have a greater negative impact on bigfoots and drive bigfoots into roadless mountains where food is more scarce. During the Fall when bigfoots need to fatten up for winter they are driven away from the low lands where deer, elk and moose are feeding on nutritious leaves. What are your thoughts? How long will it take before someone captures or shoots a male and female bigfoot that will tie down discovery? How can discovery be speeded up?

Not correct.    The trap was made by Ron Olson, a bigfoot researcher of decades past.   He was a member of a research group out of Eugene, not a "local."   It is not made of logs, it is made of sawed timbers with a sliding trap door.     Here's a link to a newspaper article in case you wish to read up on it.   (I've been to the trap and drive by the parking for it a few times a year.   It's a nice walk if you are in the area.)   The trap's door has since been rendered inoperable / open.      Interesting (to me) stuff about the location ... the trap was built prior to the construction of Applegate Dam / reservoir.    Since construction was completed in 1980 the location of bigfoot activity nearby has shifted.   My personal best guess reviewing the terrain is that the trap was built on a ridge which was part of a route they'd use through the area.   The lake now cuts off that path.   Though BF can swim, getting to the water's edge requires exposing themselves to view.    I have investigated one report from the upstream end of the lake which seems potentially credible.   Beyond the lake is the OR/CA state line; the headwaters of the Applegate are on the California side.   It is incredibly rugged country.   Just a little west, also in the headwaters, is Red Buttes Wilderness, and beyond, connected, you'll get into the Oregon Caves country.   All of this is in fairly close proximity, and mostly with cover, with Bluff Creek and the G.O. Road of PGF fame, Willow Creek, etc.   If a person wanted to put some "sweat" into figuring out something useful, they could try to figure out how the BF's are getting from the Siskiyous west of I-5 to the Cascades east of I-5 .. there are essentially NO reports but they have to be getting across that freeway somehow / somewhere without being seen.   I've pondered use of railroad overpasses, I've pondered underpasses where roads go under the freeway.   These are on private land.   No reports.   Question .. unanswered .. is someone helping them by deliberately providing a covered crossing point?   Sorry .. rambling.    This area is personally fascinating, I spent over 20 years living adjacent to it trying to puzzle it out (unsuccessfully) and it remains a bit of an obsession.

We have footprints, hair samples, and good videos but no bigfoot bones so the paleontologist want more evidence before they write up discovery papers. BFRO has hundreds and maybe thousands of eyewitness reports that should count as discovery evidence yet bigfoot remains as a myth. How long will it take before someone captures or shoots a male and female bigfoot that will tie down discovery? Lots of hunters have observed bigfoot yet none of them have brought in a deceased bigfoot. why? Are there laws prohibiting killing bigfoot? There are reports of rural people in Oregon who lived along the Applegate River in Oregon who built a bigfoot trap out of logs yet bigfoot was too wary. A Canadian hunter in one of the middle providences shot and killed a bigfoot but it was never presented to science to help push discovery forward. Maybe someone can find these reports and publish them for our readers. If science insists on one male and one female live or dead for discovery to occur, bigfoot may not be discovered for 500 years and may go extinct. Discovery helps rare proven species survive. How can discovery be speeded up?    

I watched the video and the scamp is good for one researcher. It would be good to have one and to camp out on research sites.

That depends on what you count as "discovery."    They are not acknowledged by mainstream science.   Lacking that, I don't count them as "discovered."   It doesn't matter what I've seen or experienced.   My knowledge that they exist is irrelevant.  Someone else's belief they exist is irrelevant.   Until we have proof of existence accepted by mainstream science, the notion of discovery is as mythical as bigfoot is.