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Interesting scenerio CM. Definitely possibilities. And I and others have found the bones broken and the marrow scooped out with something. Very good source of protein and fats. Here's a very interesting chapter on hominid carnivory. http://www.stoneageinstitute.org/pdfs/breathing-fossils-ch16-white-toth.pdf Hi Georgerm, wondered if you've been keeping up. BobbyO posted the sighting maps you requested. In another thread he also posted a link to a paper about the possible wildlife corridors. There's really no need to give specific coordinates. I would rather those that plan to do some boots on the ground do their own research on the possible locations. Why make it easy for those that would create problems in those areas. And believe me there are people that would. So why display location specifics simply for the sake of our discussion? The research has to be done 1st before any of those physical items you listed can even be presented.

Yes, good point. It does seem that it all comes down to three things- luck, Human presence, and monitoring with luck probably being the leading factor. An too, I've recently been wondering if road closings also allow monitoring stations to be set up without being observed along with the other more obvious reasons of course. I mean in this day and age monitoring makes good sense as it saves man hours in the field and that translates into the money on a limited budget to be better used elsewhere.

BTW and I are both waiting for a gate to be unlocked to get into some areas East of Mt St Helens. They begrudgingly eventually open up some areas when the snow is completely melted off the road. The other factor in sighting reports is the rain. I don't do field work in pouring rain and most people who regularly get in the woods don't either unless they have a good reason. The combination of limited access and weather has to skew data for all sighting reports.