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I just saw one tonight on a residential street not far from my home. It was hurrying along and I only saw the back end and tail. I don’t think it would get into @Incorrigible1‘s car, though. How’d you get that one into you car; aww, come on, tell us! BTW, @Eastern Slopes, neat story from your youth. Glad it ended well for you and the coyote.

Anyone know who’s German Shepard this is? Found this poor guy eating a dead deer on the side of the road no collar on him he is very snippy kinda mean just trying to find his home he isnt very friendly and was terrible to get into the car and whos home he belongs to let me know he is very antsy to go home

I'd say "no". We have seasonal road closures in my area but they have other, better explanations. They may, secondarily and incidentally, keep people out of areas when they are most active, but that is not the primary purpose. I can think of three specific closures. 1) During general cascade elk season, many of the roads in the area I hunt are temporarily closed from a couple days before elk season to the day after elk season. This is known as "green dot" closure because the roads that are still legal to drive are marked with prominent green dots on the signs. The "through roads" which connect to other roads are generally open, those which dead end somewhere are generally closed .. unless they go to a designated campground which is still open. 2) In much the same area, we have temporary closures in spring, usually end June 30. These keep motor vehicles out of elk calving areas thus increasing elk calf survival rates. This particular kind of closure might have some positive impact on bigfoots since there are quite a few local reports of them preying on new-born elk calves, an easy lunch, and it fairly effectively keeps people out of the areas. Walk-in is still legal, but usually it's a long walk on fairly steep roads without much to do when you get there, so it reduces incidental traffic considerably. 3) Closer to the coast, some area roads are closed to reduce the spread of Port Orford Cedar root rot, a fungal disease that has been shown to be spread by transfer of mud from one area to another on vehicle tires. One of my favorite four-wheeling areas is closed to motorized entry during the wet season for this reason. The environmental (thus economic) impacts of Port Orford Cedar root rot are pretty serious in some spots and minimizing the spread of the disease is critical. Those are spots I would somewhat expect to find sasquatch during the closer season because they are middle/low elevation, mostly below snow, where deer and elk move when the high country is snowed in. I don't think, in any of these instances, keeping people out of bigfoot "habitat" is a consideration .. AT ALL .. regarding the closures. Another example, almost a counter-example, is closure of municipal watersheds. We have two watersheds with closures of sorts. One is closed year around to motor vehicles except for "official duties" and certain contractors like the crews thinning the area for wildfire mitigation. It is open to walk-in, horse, and mountain bike access year around. The other allows vehicle travel on specific roads which are fenced to keep illegal offroaders out of the city drinking water. It, too, is mostly open to foot traffic. Given the amount of "unofficial reports" of bigfoot activity in both, if any areas I can think of would be completely closed to keep people from seeing the bigfoots, those two would be at the very top of the list. So obviously I have picked a single example from within your post to address, I think if anything like that were happening, my area, which is functionally contiguous with the Klamath area, Bluff Creek (PG film site, etc), it would happen here .. and I don't see any indications of it. Each closure I can think of can be justified biologically / ecologically for reasons that do not need sasquatch. In fact, though I generally oppose closures, I can think of places that should be closed which are not, and which really ought to be closed if sasquatch were in any way a consideration. So far as tracking them, at least in the Pacific Northwest, I think that gets into the realms of fantasy and delusion. It can't be done without locals knowing it is being done. Gov't does not have the ability / opportunity to operate in secrecy in the field here, there are always citizen eyes in the woods ... always. It makes a good story for the gullible but it ain't happening. MIB

Siberia generates unique feelings within me. It's much like my beloved Alaska, but much larger. And it's wildlife is similar, but has much more, the Siberian tiger being the most impressive example. I always wanted to go taimen fishing. I strongly suspect that sasquatch type creatures remain in southern Siberian mountains and forests. If I was younger and richer, I would study the Russian language and go. But my brother-in-law and a priest friend DID go. Other friends went early during an oil boom on Sakalin Island. My brother-in- law works for Alaska Airlines, who opened scheduled routes to Vladivostok and Magadan from Anchorage in the early 90's. It didn't last long. Russian crime, both large scale and petty, put an end to it within a couple/few years. Those people would steal the instruments out of the cockpit while the planes were parked for just a few hours. Entire fuel loads for the planes would disappear en route between fuel storage points and the tarmac. They had to keep a man on board the aircraft at all times just to keep the thieves off, and the company feared for the man's safety. Personnel staying in Magadan feared for their lives. Hand grenades were a common weapon that criminals used. To this day, nearly 30 years later, Alaska Airlines still has not tried opening scheduled service again. My priest friend was the first Catholic priest to attempt establishing a Catholic parish in Siberia (Magadan) since the Russian Revolution. His success has been limited, was purely because he is as determined as a pit bull, turned out to be an entire career, and is likely more miraculous than anything else. The Russian government eventually drove him out. The remaining parish is essentially a persecuted religious minority living in a frozen, crime infested Hell. The Sakalin oil boom, created with early American technology and classic oil boom speed, was rather quickly taken over by the Russian government, complete with corruption. Within two years, the Americans were driven out. I'm too old and American to survive the Russian political and criminal environment. Frankly, spending time there scares me as much as the thought of hanging out in Mexico or Central America. No, thanks. I think the Russian political environment shows some promise, but the possible better days are a few decades in the future. Sadly, I think the world situation is in hard reverse..........I suspect American crime and corruption is catching up to the Russians. I like Alaska, thanks. It has been a wonderful home for the past 45 years, and it remains a great place to grow old in.

I suspect it depends on scarcity of resources .. food, water, shelter .. in the general region, thus how easy it is or isn't to simply avoid conflict and move somewhere else just as good as the place they're leaving, along with density of human population and its regional behavior, and then the personality of individual bigfoots. For instance, based on report data, I'd be more cautious across the southern tier of states from Florida through Texas to Arizona. Seems like the BFs are more pushy. For the most part, the Pac NW doesn't have the same reputation but there are exceptions like the upper Molalla and Clackamas river areas east of Portland / Salem. There's no reason I can think of for that so far as resources so I assume it is a personality issue. There's nothing like a certainty of dying a horrible bigfoot-induced death anywhere. There's no absolute guarantee of not. On the balance, I find it improbable enough that I don't worry about it, there are far more probable dangers anywhere you choose to go .. including staying at home where we mistakenly presume we are safe. MIB

Pepsi and pan pizza freak checking in!!! I prefer coke if I’m drinking a can but for fountain I’d rather have Pepsi for some reason.

Watch your mouth, blasphemer! We also should have clarified the difference between a few. A researcher could be a witness or proponent as well. I think researcher is meant for those that don't know and are researchers though, right? Like MIB is not a researcher. He's a witness.

I can't believe some people actually prefer Pepsi over Coke! I bet it's the same people who prefer pan pizza... Frieks!

I grew up 80 miles South of Coeur D'Alene and moved back here a few years ago. Most beautiful country you will find. However, it's been sad to see that area get invaded by Californians and change from a sleepy resort town to San Diego. Spokane is referred to as Spokompton or Spokanistan. I would never live in either town. I would look a little further North in Sandpoint or Bonner's Ferry. The increased snow has kept the California invasion to a minimum. My company has a field office in Spokane. We have dozens of such offices all over the country and world. The most problems we have with theft and homeless is by far at the Spokane office. My favorite place in the world to fish is on the Coeur D'Alene river for Cutthroat trout near Kingston, ID. It's 125 miles from my house, and the worst part of the drive is getting through CDA with all of the California refugees.