I didn't know Janet Reno (Sasquatch) had moved to Utah
Posted on 07/21/2007 9:20:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KAMAS, Utah
A group of about 45 people spent two days in the Uinta Mountains searching for the legendary Bigfoot.
Members of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization used sophisticated equipment such as parabolic microphones and night vision goggles to search for the beast on Thursday and Friday.
BFRO director Matt Moneymaker, a lawyer from Capistrano, Calif., said he founded the organization to be a clearinghouse for Bigfoot sightings nationwide. He says he once was as close as 15 feet from a Sasquatch in 1994 in Portage County, Ohio.
"Utah has a reputation of being a place with enough sightings and steep terrain where it is possible to see one," he said
However, acting Kamas District Ranger Dave Ream of the U.S. Forest Service said he was not aware of any Bigfoot sightings. He said that campers should be more worried about bears, which are coming closer than usual to campgrounds because of dry conditions and wildfires.
Still, those who say they have heard or seen Sasquatch are never quite the same.
Scott Taylor of Tacoma, Wash., says he saw a Bigfoot in 2005 while deer hunting on the coast of Washington.
"It's not like going out and watching deer and elk," said Taylor. "These are creatures that don't want to be seen. But when you see one, it changes your life forever."
For YOU perhaps.....but not for me..
The late Grover Krantz:
“The most common question asked by skeptics is, ‘If the sasquatch exists, why don’t we find its bones?’ If it is a viable species consisting of thousands of individuals, then dozens of them are certainly dying every year. Most people think this means that someone should stumble across one of their skeletons now and then. Our museums are full of the skeletons of other animals, why not this one? No wildlife biologists will ask this question because they all know the answer... Most animal deaths may be divided into two categories, abrupt and delayed, with only a few questions in between. An abrupt death is when the animal is killed by a predator or by another natural event... A delayed death is when the animal succumbs to old age, starvation, or illness; in this case the individual can and will carefully choose the place where its death occurs... They are then quickly reduced to skeletons by carrion eaters of all sizes, from mammals to microbes. Carnivores’ bones will end up hidden under a cover of vegetation... they are almost never seen in nature. I have yet to meet anyone who has found the remains of a bear that was not killed by human activity. (A self-proclaimed naturalist once told me that he finds puma skeletons frequently; if this is true, he has a skill that no field biologist even remotely approaches) ...Someone once calculated that if all the bison skeletons from the last 40,000 years were still here, the Great Plains would be thirty feet deep in stacked bone... Frequencies of footprints suggest that there are now at least a hundred bears for every one sasquatch, and dead bears are almost never found... Desirable as it may be, the discovery of the remains of a naturally dead sasquatch is about the least likely possibility of demonstrating their existence. If someone could devise a method to locate the remains of large numbers of dead bears, then perhaps some sasquatch remains will eventually be found as well.” [Big Footprints, pp 9-11]
If he’s right about dead bears, this is a very good answer to the complaint that no remains have been found. Bottom line, they’re too damned rare.
Also, sasquatches, if they exist, are not killed abruptly;
Only a lion or possibly a bear could kill one, and lions aren’t likely to be found in heavily forested areas. Bears are slower. And if there’s a sasquatch, it’s clearly smarter than any other animal at least in North America.
Perhaps not in New York City or San Francisco -- but there are THOUSANDS of "dead bears" registered annually by hunters, and bones of bears are found in caves, sink holes, after forest fires and as road kill.
With most of America covered by hunters, fishermen, hikers, climbers, trail bikes, ATVs and whatever -- not ONE one has ever come out of the boondocks with ANY physical evidence or photograph that was credible to scientists".
The writer of the article you quoted - could have answered his own question about the absence of Bison bones on the plains with just a little research..
http://www.kshs.org/research/topics/business/essay.htm
Collecting bones was a BIG business in the 1800s....
"Another industry sprang from the slaughter of buffalo. Bone pickers were paid $4 to $6 a ton for the dried buffalo bones. Shipped east, the bones were then ground and used in the manufacture of fertilizer, combs, dice, buttons, and bone china dishes. Some homesteaders used this business to supplement their farm income."
You need to stay out of Grizzly country...
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/yell/vol14-1-2a.htm
"Ernest Thompson Seton, in his "Lives of Game Animals," has the following to say regarding the speed of the grizzly.
"Swift too, is he, in amazing measure for his build. Those who form their idea of a bear's speed from watching a hulking, slouching prisoner, are sure to be amazed at the real thing. For 50 or 100 yards a Grizzly can go faster than any horse, and keep it up indefinitely. It is well known that in the spring of the year, the Indian ponies that have wintered out and are poor, very commonly become the prey of the Grizzly, who can now catch them on the open plain. Townsend tells of a wounded Grizzly that pursued closely a man on horseback for half a mile, snapping at the horse's heels, and apparently would have captured the object of his wrath but for a timely volley from the man's comrades.
"J. M. Mackenzie describes the famous Grizzly, Clubfoot, as able to keep pace with a horse going downhill, but not uphill.
"In view of this, it will be seen how absurd it is for any man to think that he may escape from a Grizzly by simply running.
"Wright says, 'The Grizzly can outrun the Black Bear by nearly half, no man can match him in speed, and it takes a pretty good horse to catch him.'"
"Rare" implies seldom or not often found.
In the case of "Big Foot", since it has NEVER been found - the term "rare" is inappropriate...
Never found, unproved or nonexistent is more appropriate..
I thought they were all working for Geico?
--that of course, being why you always should have a partner in grizzly country--you don't need to outrun the bear--you need only to outrun the partner--
Any question on that look at the results of any election...
I agree with you, big game hunters would have found tracks if this thing did exist. Period. End of Story.
Let’s assume they run across Ol’ Satchie, other than needing an immediate change of underwear... what are they going to do?
Will they all charge after this hairy, 7’ tall, smelly beast and wrestle him to the ground?
Will they just say “We come in peace” and offer him their lunch and some Kool Aide?
Or will Ol’ Satchie just look at them and say “All right, I’ve about had it up to here with you people, I’m filing a restraining order against all of you for stalking”
In any case, this inquiring mind wants to know
"Another industry sprang from the slaughter of buffalo. Bone pickers were paid $4 to $6 a ton for the dried buffalo bones. Shipped east, the bones were then ground and used in the manufacture of fertilizer, combs, dice, buttons, and bone china dishes. Some homesteaders used this business to supplement their farm income."
You missed the point, the late Dr. said animals "not killed by man." All of those Bison bones you are speaking of were from animals killed by man in a short period of time during the great slaughter of the Buffalo in the 1870s. He was speaking of the millions of bones that should have been there collecting on the plains during the last 40,000 years but weren't.
I didn't know Janet Reno (Sasquatch) had moved to Utah
Vanishingly rare. Glad to see someone with some reading comprehension, it’s refreshing. Shortly before his death, Krantz had a revised edition of his book, I recommend the first edition because I’ve read it, but the revised edition is probably also good.
Exactly.
Thanks.
We really don’t grasp the resurgance of wild life into very urban areas. Coons and possums and other such nocturnal creatures live comfortably is suburban neighborhoods.
Beaver, gone for decades, now inhabit eastern streams and lakes.
Bigfoot in Ohio is not too much of a stretch.
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