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Indeed. My travels over these past three years, though not as often as this year is shaping up to be is showing me that there is food aplenty in these winter habitats. And also flowing water with tracks of all kinds at their edges. Going on Meldrum's estimations of bear populations vs. Sasquatch it would follow that the Maine population (if there even is one) might be somewhere between 300-400 individuals in Maine's 31,000 or so square miles. So what are my chances? This, along with various other factors is why I've chosen this method of research. Plus the potential scientific possibility of collecting DNA from a definitive trackway should I come across one. All in all, for me, at this stage in life and knowledge anyway, this style of winter research has a lot going for it.

Larry Harley designed, Paragon Cutlery executed Battle Bowie from Seki, Japan. A thing of wicked beauty IMO. Black micarta scales on 1/4" full tang fit perfectly, it is designed for thrusting as Mr. Harley created it as a hog hunting knife. Well balanced, nice heft, great fit and finish and the choil, combined with finger grooves is spot on for whatever "delicate" work one would do with an 8" blade. Swedge is ground to an edge but currently, not quite sharp. Sheath is functional but unworthy so I'll make a leather one. 8" blade including choil, 13.5" OAL.

If I remember right you live in Maine so if there are Sasquatches that live in this part of the country Maine would seem a good place for them to live . Even with the rough winters there is plenty of whitetail they could harvest for food and plenty of forest to hide

And one doesn't even have to walk the woods to do that. I've spotted animal tracks galore jut about everywhere both this past Sat/Sun as well as today. May go out again tomorrow but definitely in a couple of days as more snow is expected by Thursday. Should be able to cover quit a bit of territory before next week looking for road approaches and/or crossings in the more rural and wooded areas. My method is to circle around areas using roads of any type in order to section off search quadrants. Animals of all sizes and types move around a lot as is evidenced by trackways that cut across the roads I've been driving- with a dash cam. It's not uncommon to see deer and 'yotes using the same routes. Humans, too with snow sleds, skis, snow shoes etc., but not nearly as much as one might think. Miles of habitat with only animal tracks and I especially carefully check pinch points like bridges over brooks and creeks. Two or three hours a day is all that's needed in order to cover a lot of ground as I circle around habitats like ponds, bogs, and fields as well as denser woods. Don't even care if I see a Sasquatch or not. It's only all about finding its prints. And I'm patient.

Or tap into the websites that actually DO animal migration monitoring: https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Animal+Tracker+map&client=firefox-b-1-d&ved=2ahUKEwja7byN6YDyAhVkGVkFHeCGA-4QjJkEegQIGxAC&biw=1366&bih=643 The problem is that we ALL know animals migrate. What we don't research is what those migration patterns look like. If folks think Sasquatches follow these animal migrations then wouldn't it be more productive to go to the sources that actually study and graph out those migrations? Overlay THOSE patterns and then one has something solid to work with if they want to see if reports line up with already established migration pattern knowledge that one can access and easily visualize.

Hi folks sorry for your concern. As the big male BF told me once in a dream, rumors of my extinction are very much exaggerated. Or maybe that was Mark Twain. I lost access (password) to the yahoo account that I use for the forum and due to that and a fussy password here have been unable to sign in. Just now figuring out how to get back in although logging in here was confusing and it took me several trys to get in. I did have a bad case of COVID in 2020 that took me out of field work. Have not fully recovered yet. In the mean time I have had a lot of time to think about field work in general. My encounter experience progressed from playful interaction at first and got more and more ounfriendly as time went on. I was dealing with a family group in a fairly small area who were apparently not nomadic in that they were there year round. Then clear cut logging started at the North end of their area and worked south wiping out most lanes of travel cover for them. I was present in the daytime three or more times a week. I had to have been a major problem for their food gathering and hunting. As you may remeber I cornered one against a ridgeline and advanced on it as fast as I could move through difficult down wood, trying to get it to break cover. That got me growled at and a tree broken off behind me. The final contact resulted in an infrasound attack from a very close distance. I cannot understand how I did not see the administrator of that attack because it was less than 10 feet away as evidenced by a large depression in the veggetation. It was painful, frightening, and kept me out of the woods for a couple of months. As I recovered from Covid I had a lot of time to think. The combination of my frequent presence and the clear cutting process had to put a lot of stress on that family group. I did not see or understand that I was a big part of their problem. They may have even thought I was part of the clear cut crew. I stopped seeing any footprints after a few months and stopped having any contact. Anyway I feel a lot of guilt for my part in disrupting their life and being part of the forces that made them move. The final concern I have about continuing with field work in some form is that along with the infrasound event, I had several instances where I heard something moving close by and should have seen it because of lack of cover, but did not see a thing. In one case something ran past behind me and hit my pack. I was in the middle of a logging road with no cover with ten yards or so. I cannot help but shake the feeling that they are capable of masking or going invisible somehow. Are we dealing with some predator type creature? tha Anyway that is were I am with regard to field work. I do not plan on staying out of the woods but my primary purpose for being there will be for some other reason. Maybe that is the best route to take anyway?

Calm down people, he paid his Premium Membership last month. He's probably living it up in an island somewhere...

I live in central TX, but I go camping fairly regularly in east TX. I'm kind of fascinated with Boykin Springs recreational area. I learned about it through some podcasts, and found that it was a pretty active area at one time. The last three times I've camped there, I was the only overnight camper. Some hikers come in and out during the day, but everyone is gone when the sun goes down. It's usually pretty cold when I've been going, but I've been taking plenty of firewood. I've heard a distant howl or two during the late night hours. The trail that goes back to the Aldridge sawmill is prime habit. I took my boys out there for a day trip to hike out to it, and quickly wished that I hadn't. I'm pretty sure there were things watching us. It was eerily quiet, and on one stretch of the trail I kept hearing movement on a ridge above us to the left. Thankfully I didn't take them to camp. Just a hike. I'm also very interested in camping at and exploring the Alabama Coushatta campground near Woodville. There's supposedly regular activity there as well. I've got a couple of other recreational areas on my radar to camp at. When I drive through them during the day, there's absolutely nobody else there. Fairly primitive areas with little to no cell signal and no bathrooms. I know Sam Houston National Forest is a hotspot, and I've thought about camping there. But it seems to get a fairly high amount of campers, hunters and hikers. I've really come to enjoy the seclusion of some of the recreational areas that are kind of "off the beaten path", especially near Lake Sam Rayburn. Anyone else familiar with the east Texas area? I'd love to find people out that way to meet with and possibly partner up.