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Massacre Theory aside, and regarding access to federal lands, below is a screen shot I finally figured out how to take from an SSR query downloaded to Google Earth. It is a map of the SSR database of bigfoot reports in the Six Rivers National Forest, including the Bluff Creek/Blue Mountain area. You can see the two clustered hot spots, the southern interior one being the Bluff Creek/Blue Mountain area, and the northern coastal one being the lower Smith River drainage between Crescent City and Gasquet. Of the two areas, the lower Smith River has many thousands of people living there, and has excellent access as the junction of US101 and US199. The cluster of reports is likely due to both a population of sasquatches in the area and a lot of people to see them. The Bluff Creek cluster is quite different. There are no cities there, and access is extremely limited. The only significant highway is Hwy 96, a secondary highway between Yreka on I-5 and Eureka on US101, and the several towns are all very small and on the highway. To get to the Bluff Creek PG site area one must travel 25 miles on Forest Service roads to where one must walk the final mile to the site. But all Forest Service roads in Six Rivers National Forest are closed to motorized vehicles from October 22 to June 15 each year, a total of nearly 8 months, or 67% of the entire year. So you walk, or ride a horse, or you are violating the law. Why is this? Is it to protect critical sasquatch habitat? Certainly not officially, but it sure gives that sasquatch population a good break from intrusion, harassment, and potential discovery, especially considering the fact that if they're moving around in snow, they're putting out many more footprints to follow than in the summer. Officially, this road closure is to protect the Port Orford cedar from the Port Orford cedar root disease that your nasty vehicle can spread: https://www.triplicate.com/error404/5791603-151/some-forest-roads-closed-to-prevent-port-orford So throughout the southwestern Oregon and northwest California national forest lands, which are also the majority of the regions remote land mass and one of the hottest sasquatch report areas on the continent, the feds are significantly limiting your access. The Forest Service has a huge toolbox. They have no need to "discover" sasquatches in order to keep you and I out of their playground. Coverup? Probably not. And it's extremely unlikely that this is an overt and specific move to keep thier sasquatches undiscovered. But it sure helps sasquatches stay secret. It sure would be interesting to be left in there on October 21st with a comfortable camp, plenty of food and supplies, and a pair of snowshoes, then when you run out of food, just walk out with your firearms and electronics, then drive back in there on June 16th to retrieve your camp.........and game cams.............

For anyone who is interested I have now posted two articals that were made in response to this insanity back in 2009 and again in 2011. On my blog site (www.ThomasSteenburg.com) Look for the posts titled "Here We Go Again" as well as "Here We Go Again part two" . Thomas Steenburg

2012 article by Bill Miller on this, with more evidence MassacreArticlePDFJan27-B-1.pdf

Let me just say...it's this type of analysis and sharing that keeps me coming back. Thanks @Huntster.

After a bit of study (Google Earth is an incredible tool), if I was going sasquatch hunting in the Bluff Creek area, I'd focus on these two bowls on the north side of the East Fork of Bluff Creek: 41.2515/-123.3952, and 41.2440/-1233903. Also the nearby Woodtick Gulch/Nickowitz Creek. Check them out on Google Earth in 3D. The first area appears to be @ 2.5 sq. miles. All the areas I've listed appear to have escaped all logging, so are larger pockets of old growth. I believe that these are the kinds of areas where nests would be found. Especially since their justification (tree rot fungus on tires) is even more valid during the very months they leave the roads open: mid-June to mid-October......

Hello from Nevada! I've always been curious about this subject. I find it interesting that there have been so many sightings and reports of encounters but it seems there is very little proof of this creature existing. I'm in the I want the creature to exist camp, and I hope someday this mystery is solved. For years I camped, hiked and four wheeled all over the Sierra Nevada's and never saw anything out of the ordinary but there are some very remote places out there. Hopefully I learn some things from this forum.

I ride my horses and mules behind locked gates.

I saw two in one night in plain sight, close up with the brights of my truck. I was close enough that there was no mistake. Not seen any since- that was 29 years ago...