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Thermal imagers, trail cams, and HD cameras will not get concrete evidence. I don't have much budget for squatching. Maybe I should start begging for money too... Thing is... you don't need to have a lot of gear to see one, you just need to get to where they are.

I wonder how many people see bears swimming across the arms and canals of Puget Sound. My bet is that it happens all the time, but few to nobody sees it. People never report bears swimming across Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, and the mere thought of any living creature trying it sounds like suicide. The mud is like quicksand, and the tides are so incredibly ferocious that a bore tide is common. But after fitting a black bear that repeatedly got itself into trouble in Anchorage with a collar equipped with a satellite sender, ADFG was astounded to see that the bear promptly left town, swam across Turnagain Arm (instead of simply going around it), traversed Resurrection Pass, and the signal stopped along Skilak Lake Road. They drove to the site and found that the collar had been cut, meaning the bear had been shot and killed. The harvest had not been reported, which indicated that the “hunter” shot the bear illegally (no license or tag, which is free) even though it was a legal hunting area and black bear was open for hunting. A couple of years ago I myself saw a grizzly wandering around out on the mudflats of Turnagain Arm for the first time in my life, despite having traveled it countless times since 1975, including being a railroad track inspector there for a year.

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To assume that sightings and other signs of Bf are dropping off in the OP is a bad assumption. Perhaps turned in "reports" of them are dropping off, but the instances are still happening. I live generally in the OP, and specifically in Ocean Shores, and we still get word of sightings and evidence ( sounds and prints) quite a bit. Not many will hear of sightings or occurrences on tribal lands, as the First Nation people tend to keep those to themselves and only share them with those they really trust. Also, some areas of tribal lands are only accessible by permit from the tribal elders. As far as Ocean Shores specifically, some of those reports are of a family of bears that have made a home on our little peninsula. It would take a very stealthy BF to get through town to the areas that we get reports from. Not saying it's impossible, but more than likely they are misidentification. An area that is fairly hot at the moment is around Lake Quinault, Grave's Creek areas. Also some reports coming out of the Mt. Carrie and Whiskey Bend areas. I'm not absolutely sure as to why there seems to be a drop off in formal reports, but I suspect it has to do with reports being turned in and nothing being followed up on by whatever agency or group the reports are being turned in to. At least that is what I've gotten from a couple of folks that have gotten hold of me to talk about it. So if you are doing any research in the OP, stick with it. Or if you are thinking about coming here to take a look, come ahead. Bring your thermals!

BigTex. If you could post a "How To" in the Squatchipedia, it would be great!