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Hello SWWASAS : Let's trade some emails; and then share. My stuff is in OBH, but only the basics. You are right, solo is best; but, it's OK to have a small like-minded crew along. Probably the high point of the last 20 years was last year when at least one walked into the outskirts of our camp and tried to vocally "communicate" with an awake crew member. Enough for now. Joe here

I think the database was public long before FB TV show. There has always been access to that database by BFRO members as one of the perks of doing the footwork of investigations and such. There has always been the suggestion that juicy reports were culled for BFRO use only and not for listing on the public database. Since this is the OLYMPIC thread I will just choose to say that if you can't do a timely investigation then the effort is moot really except for historical purposes of documenting habitat and patterns in the geography and such. Never been a BFRO member and never invited but have had success in the southeast with conscientious investigators taking an interest in the area I was investigating back in the pre-2010 days. This was also nonpublic investigation however. Many reasons for that which I choose not to go into on the forum. Time is money and I suppose alot of these organizations staffed with volunteers don't have independently wealthy people able to move on the drop of a hat which is one reason Oly Project seems to be deferring the public expedition part of things so they can strike while the iron is hot as explained by them. Maybe when some of these philanthropists leave the space shots for the big hairy elder brother we may have something, maybe not.