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Reading how the bear population is on the rise in CT I'd think bigfoot may be around too. I use to hunt around the Quabin res area in Ma when I was a kid, good deer action around Bare also. I don't think bigfoot is afraid of our subdivisions once he figures his way around!! I'll have agree too, you're going from freedom to a heavily commie state.

Not necessarily, NW CT looks active, and there are recent reports in other areas. I think it is likely that forests and parks of all sorts have been tacitly recognized as special enough to be protected at least partly because of them, although it can't be proven. I think the place names mostly predate such protections, whether named by natives or settlers. They are very interesting.

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How big is that bear/deer/big hairy mammal/stump in your trail cam pics? It is not difficult to get an approximation. I use metric Pocket Rods to scale animal images. I use metric due to the resolution of trail cameras. It is easy to see centimeters. After I place a trail cam and before I switch out the storage media/batteries, I wander around in front of the camera, stopping in many places. Sturdy camera mounts are important for image alignment. I have home made accessories for my Pocket Rods for distance from camera.. The Pocket Rod is 2 meters in length. The 1 meter mark is in red ink. The horizontal Pocket Rod has the 1 meter mark in front of my whistle & signal mirror. A little image processing and the bear is scaled. In setting this image up, I thought about being the invisible researcher and just adding my gloved hands and Pocket Rods. Here we have Jane Doe. No deers were poked during this exercise. Accessories for measuring. The image below is from my 1st set of distance cards. They were made from 3 X 5 cards. My new sets are plastic. The distance cards are slipped over the 'blade'. The image shows the Pocket Rod at 1/2 meter away from the camera ( the comma is not in view ). A tape measure is stretched out on the ground and I walk out to the distance indicated on the cards.

I don't have a lot of faith in tree breaks in the woods. Mother nature can be pretty violent, that said now twists get my attention. Find a two to three inch tree all twisted up and I'm like whoa, what does that?

They or something is here that have 3 toes

^^^ A good read. I activated my orphaned DeLorme map software and entered 'devil' and then 'skookum'. The column of 'devil' related listings is huge, country wide. 'Skookum' listings are west coast, numbering over 60 in the DeLorme database. There is only one listing for Skookum Meadows ( Washington ). There are a few Skookum Lakes in Oregon. 'Skookum' is one of many names for 'Sasquatch'. Indigenous Indian tribes had their own names for the big guy: Albatwitche, B'gwas, Boqs, Chiye-tanka, Holla Yella, Nuk-Luk, Oh-mah, Opie, Seatco, Weendego are but a few examples. The map makers used historical names in many locations. Connecticut has several locations with 'Devil' in the name.

If this interests you, for the Pac NW, Henry Franzoni's "In the Spirit of Seatco" is a great resource. Translations of "Indian" place names really does seem to track with a map of bigfoot reports. Some of his other conclusions jibe with my assessment of the report data. It was truly an interesting read. MIB

Here' are some numbers: My own report is BFRO 59757 and was submitted on July 29th, 2018 (day 210 or 155 to end of year) Kansas Report BFRO 62405 was submitted on Jan 19th, 2019 (day 19 or 174 days after my report was submitted) 62405 - 59757 = 2648 reports in 174 days, a little more than 15 per day, or roughly 450 per month. I don't know how many reports were published in that total time, but here are the months I know. It's averaged 8 per month since December. Mar 2019 = 3 (so far) Feb 2019 = 6 Jan 2019 = 12 Dec 2018 = 11 Total = 32 (or 8 per month) BFRO takes in 450 reports per month and publishes 8 per month (1.7%) Today there are 5160 BFRO reports in the SSR database. 5160/62405 = 8.26% BFRO reports published vs submitted.

What? Government can track my 2001 Ford Expedition because of the vehicle computer?