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We are heading out around 7:pm and will be using the thermals all night.

Seems like a personnel management issue is for people who get paid, my understanding is if you hold your breath thinking you will get reimbursed for BFRO good luck, Best be making the big bucks so you can write it off your taxes (hold your breath on that too) for charitable donations. 501c3 and all that. I do agree, most can't be bothered when it is in "your" neighborhood. Very risky proposition to report if you are intending on continuing to live and perhaps research there too. I went the BFRO route presighting and the investigators were helpful. Post-sighting I decided not to formally report and I am glad I didn't (although I did have a trusted BFRO confidant interested in audio recording that I bounced things off of). Don't forget BFRO is listed by the Calfornia Sec. of State of Business office as an entertainment, outings-based company. They will do what they need to do to keep the stream flowing.

The fact that a deer is a known and excepted animal is the big difference here. This image confirms a deer sighting, not the deers existence.

While previously discounted (for example by Reed in his chapter in "The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids"), the possibility of Bigfoot originating from New World monkeys is worthy of further inquiry. Chilcutt, who studied the dermal ridges of nonhuman primates and compared them with those found in Bigfoot footprint casts, once mentioned that the closest resemblance in his collection to the dermal ridges of the Bigfoot casts were those of the spider monkey, which lives in Central and South America. Also, during preliminary work using Glickman's method to analyze Bigfoot sighting data at the county level, I've noted that the apparent geographical distribution of real Bigfoot populations in the United States makes just as much sense as a result of a migration northward through Mexico, as it does being the result of a migration from Asia via the Bering land bridge.

Humanity is setting itself up for a mass extinction event by becoming dependent on technology for daily existence. Large portions of our society, especially in the United States, would die if there was a wide spread failure of the power grid. There was a solar coronal mass ejection in the 1800s that had a direct hit on earth that pretty well melted down what telegraph and power infrastructure that existed at the time. Reports of glowing wires, and rail road tracks were common. Today such and event would kill 10's of millions because of loss of electricity, heat, inability to store or prepare food, and damage to vehicles that move food around the country. Much of the population today has little ability to rough it any more and subsist in primitive conditions. When natural disasters hit, and the only thing a lot of people know to do is head to shelters and expect the government to provide for them. That is common even when a disaster like a hurricane has days of notice to prepare. A direct CME hit would throw the country back into the 1800s in a few minutes. BF on the other hand would probably not notice anything other than suddenly the humans stopped driving into the woods and pestering them.

Bipedality in humans may have resulted from the advantage gained through the higher vantage point and ability to see longer distances. This makes sense on the African savannah, but not so much in the forest which is supposed to be Bigfoot's primary habitat. In a forest, there's nearly as much still over your head when you're standing as there is when you're on all fours, so the advantage of bipedality is considerably less. It might improve your ability to see over the bushes interspersed around the trees. Perhaps this is the reason Bigfoot is much taller than humans, in order to gain the maximum advantage from bipedality in a forest environment, but I still imagine that the gains might not be worth the other physiological and behavioral trade-offs. Another possibility would be that Bigfoot developed bipedality in a previous habitat, prior to migrating to North America. It is not known if Gigantopithecus, a possible ancestor of Bigfoot, was bipedal or not, but bipedality would have indeed been more advantageous among the bamboo than in the forest. Regarding tool use, it may be that the Bigfoot hand simply is not sufficient for tool use. In the image below of a possible Bigfoot handprint cast, the thumb appears to be relatively smaller than in humans, and in a position that might reduce its opposability. If that's the case, Bigfoot's hand just isn't ideal for tool use. Widespread tool use among early humans is one of the primary things that made further brain development advantageous, so if Bigfoot is still in a stage where its hand anatomy hinders tool use, then perhaps this is why Bigfoot doesn't display all of the characteristics of humanlike intelligence. As an aside, the thumb in this hand cast is perhaps more reminiscent of a panda's "thumb." The panda's "thumb" aids in grasping bamboo, which is suspected to have been a dietary staple of Gigantopithecus as well.

My group went out during the evenings during the Sasquatch Summit here in Ocean Shores with a FLIR and came up with some great hits.....on deer.

That's it. I'm gonna put together a camera system with miniature pinhole passive; electrically, thermally, audibly, odor insulated detectors packaged in a natural available material such as a log or rock so that it cannot be detected. It will be so undetectable that we will have to record the gps coordinates in order to retrieve it weeks later. I'm talking, blend in with the environment like any other rock/log. I think the technology is finally getting to the price point of allowing us to do this.