This is the book I've been waiting for.
I know that there are those who want to believe that squatch are universally benign. This is akin to expecting all people, or all dogs to be universally benign.
It is reasonable to postulate that there are squatch that are not benign. If there are squatch that are not benign, then there will be less than benign encounters associated with these individuals. If among squatch that are not benign there are those who specialize in human predation, and they frequent a certain set of locations, then clusters may develop.
It is something that MUST be considered, no matter how distasteful it may be.
We attribute the lurking of squatch around humans as curiosity or associated with an interest in human food sources. Both of these are certainly true. But these same lurking behaviors are those of a predator, and in the squatch they are highly developed.
With regard to government, I am among those who believe that the government must know about them. I cannot believe that the agencies that manage our lands are that incompetent.
The fact that government does not manage our interaction with this species suggests that they cannot do so, and the fact that they do not so much as advise people of their existence in areas where people may come into contact with them bothers me even more. It suggests an attitude of acceptable losses to what is considered a low frequency event.
If the research has merit and suggests that predation occurs with a level of frequency that the public will not stomach, then this book may catch on after the DNA Study and the Erickson footage become public, because a lot of people will be asking questions about how dangerous squatch may be.