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Natfoot, many here are independent, solo researchers. We share jack most of the time. Perhaps you have not considered the crazy factor and the bullet factor. If one were to post about a private land sighting, I would expect crazy people and persons with large caliber firearms to show up. The property owner/property may receive damage from trespassing. National Parks and National Forest. Factor in the crazies too. I am mostly in National Forest areas. I work alone. I think in terms of a safety factor. I do not give up locations. I have had lead blow by me. The ricochets are very unnerving. Those people were removed from the NF and I have not seen their vehicle since. Lack of reports is not lack of encounters. We are just trying to keep hairy and not so hairy types safe.

Observing those in the BF community (or for that matter the ghost hunters, ufo folks, etc) is an interesting study of human behavior.

None of that happened.

I'll give you a funny one kind of relating to what you say here B. If you drew two straight lines, one from Mt Rainier going west and then the other from dead centre of the Olympic Interior going south, your X point would be there or thereabouts in Oakville, WA, a town where a resident went on record on a radio show to say that she believed that Sasquatches were mating in the vicinity of her property and surrounding areas in the Spring. She of course didn't know what the SSR was/is (and probably still don't) but whatever, i did, and you might be right..;) Edit to add : Technically too however B, regarding Kitsap, it IS connected by land to the Olympic Peninsula and via an area that is very prominent where reports are concerned too in truth. Where the SSR is concerned, we are at the mercy of other databases and them publishing reports publicly as and when, as we then back link them to every entry we add to the SSR of that report, so people like you can look at it. For example, if i ran some numbers on the SSR and shared with you a Google Earth File mapping out some sighting reports, every report that would be within it would also have a back link to the original report in it so you could heck out the details of it instead of it just being a point on map.

We have to draw a line somewhere and with the location of these specific reports, i had no issue in lumping them in the Olympic Peninsula Geographical Zone as opposed to the North/South Cascades. Admittedly i could have added a "Puget Sound" Zone but honestly, i have no issue with Gig Harbor(which i know is a Pierce County sighting specifically here) being grouped in the OP Zone, irrespective of what county it falls under, from a purely geographic perspective. Kitsap County, again geographically, no issue with it being part of the OP Zone. Regarding reports dropping off, they're not, they're just not in the SSR as they're not in the public domain with database x or y, and therefore we don't/can't add them. I can assure you there's no slow down of sightings, if not reports, in the Olympics though.

i thought i would take a moment to give a brief layout of my plan. i will map out the areas that have the highest and most recent sightings.From there i will interview as many eye witnesses as i can.I will attempt to weed out any false/misidentification reports. Once i find a location that has the highest amount of credible witnesses i will head out to the field. Taking from what i have learned from multiple field studies the best way to find large animals is to find the best possible habitat. You have to first establish can this particular area support a group of large mammals. I will be approaching my expedition in a similar manner to a post graduate program i was involved in searching for, and studying the florida black bear. we first tracked/searched for their main food sources to give us the best chance at locating the bears. this is probably the most difficult part of looking for sasquatch because we have nothing more than hypothesis and speculation on what they actually eat.I feel the sasquatch diet is very similar to bear. once i locate a suitable area that i believe has the resources to support a sasquatch i will begin canvassing the area for signs/evidence of sasquatch. and setting up motion trail cams. i will also setup my base camp within a .5-1 mile radius. i don't want to be directly in a area i feel is their main territory. I will be dedicating a minimum of 2 weeks to each location i visit collecting as much video,audio,and biological evidence as i can in each area

thanks for being respectful. i never thought this post would get so much negative backlash. i understand not supporting or donating but not sure why so much animosity

Natfoot this maybe: http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=5692 or this: http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=5697

Remember one thing,,, only a dead one across a hood or in the bed of a pickup truck will be good enough to say it's real. Even then we will have doughters!!!!

Get over yourself.

There isn't one of us who doesn't forego something each and every month in order to fund our bigfoot endeavors. There isn't one of us here who hasn't had to put money aside week-by-week in order to acquire sound equipment, a thermal, new tires, or just to pay bills while we are in the field. You spend no time investing yourself here on BFF, just waltz in, and come straight towards us with your hand outstretched and beg for money like some unseemly street urchin? It's situations like this that underscores why I have no respect for millennials. In my opinion, they are profoundly lazy, don't possess a drop of ingenuity, and expect others to do things for them rather than knuckle down and makes things happen on their own. It would never dawn on me in a million years to ask a friend or neighbor, much less someone unknown to me, to give me money for something I want to do. As far as me and your request is concerned....hit the road!

True Bipedalist, but I think we group them together because BF doesn't obey county borders...