Kitkaze, I applaud your interest in our wilderness heritage. It's awesome. Stay beautiful.
I have seen two Sasquatch up close. They are people.
I have never seen a Swamp ape, Bigfoot , Yeti or Yowie.
The reason Sasquatches are not often caught on camera is that they do not need to do risk behaviour at this time. A Sasquatch crew may, in this day and age, never visit a human owned area. Animal numbers are up in Canada. There is more than one wolverine hare. In fact, we could have herds of wolverines roaming around doing they wolverine shyte and no one would ever know. There are certainly enough quadruped protien packs walking around to satisfy needs.
I don't know about bigfoot, or any other variants, but how many transient humans have been attracted by the bait at these cams?
I suggest to you, that an extremely (to the point of psychosis) wary human, with excellent eyesight, could detect the bait wrap, or recognize the unlikley situation.
A rascal in Canada, lived in the woods for two years, raiding cabins and camping out. He was avidly sought by police (with trackers, dogs, helicopters)because he did property damage and embarrassed them in the press. They found his camps. They found his gear. They never found him. He turned himself in to police in a different area.
I urge you to consider a paradigm shift. Does it make sense to you that a sort of upright chimp could evade human contact? No, I am sure you would answer. It does not make sense, at all. If you cease to project expectations onto evidence, you will soon realize that the existing evidence is of a thinking, communicating species. Not like man. Actually man! A tremendous man, that doesn't drink or smoke and has never tasted a food additive! Could this man avoid civilization if he chose to?
Also, I would point out the tremendous cultural bias we humans have against ackowleging stuff that might be unpleasant. Do you suppose, a bakery owner, faced with clear images on his back door cam, would report it to CNN? I think most people would leave out pies, instead of becoming whistle blowers, knowing they'd be put in the position of defending themselves in the media. I talked myself out of a good job just by admitting I'd seen Sasquatches. Guess what happened to my credit score.
I think the Bigfoot population is becoming bolder, though. I cite problem bears as evidence. Why are healthy bears rummaging in garbage so much lately? There is ample food in the woods. Unless the woods aren't safe for bears any more. If bear eating predators move in to my nieghbourhood and I'm a bear, I might go elsewhere. I might go someplace the predators avoid.
I don't think we have long to wait. I think the truth is known and is waiting for government strategies to be in place. Once legal defintion can be established, governance can be enacted. As it stands now, arguements could be made for ownership of the uncatalogued DNA. Someone might actually be able to copyright. This is a significant value. What would businesses pay for unfettered research platforms? Got a drug you want to test? A vaccine? A virus? Test here! That's assuming there can be some difference demonstrated, seperating them from us. I doubt any distinction exists, personally.
Bigfoot isn't an unknown. That assumption can be thrown out, I am sure. Bigfoot is a known and understood phenomena by someone. This agency might be benevolantly sheltering them, or us. I feel certain the Sasquatch have human friends. Not just habituates, either. The Sasquatch may well be a footnote in the business of running the world, but I am sure they have been examined. Again, because it doesn't make sense to consider otherwise.