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I think not having one, and making a point of there not being one would make a legitimate statement about the state of current research personally and would give you much more credibility than just giving it to someone who, if we're brutally honest, hasn't really done anything at all yet is given 5 mins of "fame"..

Just as non-existence is no longer an option for me...

As i mentioned briefly Gumshoe, i spent some $ looking at Deer and Elk migration paths in Colorado because Sasquatch Sighting reports disappeared almost ( but not quite ) altogether from the Colorado Springs area from around 2000. I couldn't understand why an area that had regular reports coming out of it for a couple of decades all of a sudden dropped off the radar so i looked into what happened at that time in the immediate area and found this I wondered if that signaled enough was enough for them at that particular time in that particular area, so then the question was " So where did they go ? " and i got searching. I looked at the sightings, where did the sightings go around those years ? Well, they went west and to a concentrated area that never saw a great deal of reports prior to these years, but then boomed beyond then to this day, so then the question was " Why this area ? " and i got searching. I looked at the area and what it had there, and i found after paying for google earth files from hunting companies, two of the biggest migration routes for both Mule Deer and Elk on the continent as i had a sneaky feeling of where they would be, and then it all made sense. As far as Lunar Phases go, i've just started to look into them more seriously ( about 6 months or so now ) and are running those numbers always alongside other stuff i do. I'm also looking into Deer and Elk behavior in WA and am learning about that as i believe we could learn a lot from how they move, when they move, where they move to, and running Sasquatch reports alongside them plus the Lunar Phases, or not as the case may be. We have a wonderful tool built in within our system that calculates the moon phases on any given day in history, and the moon phases numbers always run alongside any numbers i am crunching so i always have an eye on them. It's all a learning process of course but i truly believe this type of research will be hugely beneficial in the coming years. The key thing is i can spot things within number sets that stand out, consistencies or inconsistencies whatever the case may be, i do it as my day job currently with Sports Performance Analysis and that helps.. Woo Hoo, at least we're making progress..

Nod4Eight's question still remains, Gumshoeye: Do you agree that giving equal weight to these atypical (dare I say, inconsistent?) and less commonly occuring traits and behaviors does damage to the common proponent argument that the reports describe a real phenomenon due to their Gaussian distribution?

I can put out gopher poison, but it's better for all concerned if the cats just catch them. And I can drive around in the truck, but it's more fun to ride a horse. I can buy meat at Wal Mart, but meat from cattle that we raise tastes a lot better. Why would they not use animals to make their lives easier & more fun? They must have their own reasons for what they do, but I don't know what they are. I do know that they like having animals around them, though.

Hmmm ... if you're going to call someone out, be sure you can prove that they are lying first. Otherwise, you not only damage someone's reputation, you add to the spirit of dissent and ire that is often pervasive here. If someone is truly lying, I think they should be thrown out, but if you accuse them and are wrong, you should be thrown out instead. In other words, we should be cautious about casting the first stone. That's why I think it best to get someone's whole story ... to judge the whole story, not just the pieces we hope to hear or the pieces we intend not to hear. MIB

Antlers = handles

Drew - are YOU an expert on wooden stomper locomotion?