Anon, Inside USFS says, "...come clean about the evidence on Bigfoot."

Anon has left a new comment on your post "Bill Emery Comments":


The shame of this thing is many of us inside USFS want to come clean about the evidence on Bigfoot. I am fully aware of the law that is supposed to protect me from termination if I speak about the subject. I along with others have known the area described by Emery had some yet unidentified animal or biped type creature somewhere around the separator between Powers and Illahee quads. I took reports from 2004 and 2008 on the creature said to be Bigfoot up there. It was USFS practice and still is not to file these reports because of the FOIA* now used by many to obtain information on Bigfoot sightings. The reports are generally taken down on paper and after a quick summation the reports are discarded. Our D..R operates this same way. If the report file cannot be tracked,thus no report. Some have felt it wouldn't be harmful to tell campers that we have had reports without admitting to Bigfoot. It would be a double edge sword says some others. So in the meantime the debate continues because we are all tagged as dishonest and non caring. This is not the truth. Many of us feel the practice should be honesty not deception. As any government entity we have to follow protocol. Not liking it is one thing but we still must continue it.

*Freedom of Information Act

ESP Team Members, Emery and Parchell Comment:

Bill Emery of ESP Team comments:

I have thought long and hard on this complex issue about bigfoot. As some might know I'm a logger with a business. I don't want anymore area in this state to be closed because of bogus claims by environmental groups that bigfoot needs more land protected. As some might know Oregon is literally overgrown with forest. Many of the areas that bigfoot inhabit are now closed to all logging such as the Siskiyous here in Coos and Curry counties because of the Northern Spotted Owl.

 I am very aware that some will try to use bigfoot as a tool for even more closures. The bigfoot has lived here for untold years and I find no reason why they should be harmed by the logging industry if common good sense practices are used. What it comes down to is bigfoot doesn't want anything to do with people. They are simply out there like they always were. People need to understand these beings are very rare and do not pose a threat to humans if understood and left alone in their natural habitat.

When we get one creature that doesn't behave, and most of them seem to, we need to put in place safeguards to protect the animal and people from each other. It's a no-brainer that we all need to respect these bigfoot--like the grizzly bear and other animals in the wild.

What I want is for the government to quit lying to the public about bigfoot. When these beings are seen it's always the same with the way folks are treated. The laughs and jokes need to stop when people report this strange animal. People deserve the respect do them and government needs to get the message that people will no longer put up with the lies. Just think how many people in the past have reported bigfoot and found themselves at the end of the rope. It must stop.

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Hank Parchell of ESP Team comments:

Bill has asked me to respond to the comment about the impact Bigfoot might have on logging and other outdoor work. We think we can have Bigfoot and logging together. Bill, Cole and I do worry that some groups might want to use Bigfoot for land closure.

I've been a forester all my life and never saw a Bigfoot till that morning. So the idea that they need more land closed doesn't hold water. More of out forest is burned up each year by wildfires than we log in 10 years. The restrictions are firm and complex now when logging. Most of the old growth forest in Oregon is protected from all forest logging.

The environs don't take into consideration about the disease now present all through BC,Washington,Oregon and California in the timber. Yes, some will move to have everything shut down but isn't that the way we're currently headed now? It seems these days nothing resembling common sense is used by those groups that want everything to come to a halt. We need to know that people will always use something for their gain and our loss.

One Month Anniversary

Bigfoot After He's "Discovered"

It seems to me, bigfoot, is equipped to take care of himself. After all, he keeps to himself so well, most people do not even believe he exists! Why make a big deal out of "discovering" him. I think people should be aware of his existence no matter what the outcome.  We will just have to deal with it. ... My humble
opinion... Linda Newton-Perry
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Diann E

The concerns of Sierra Tahoe of the impact the acknowledgement of bigfoot could potentially have on Oregon are very real but I truly believe from the minute ESP Team's evidence is released the focus and concentration should be, not local, but absolutely national. There are footprints casts and sightings, and scat analysis from Ohio, Florida, Texas, etc. etc. By focusing national they're going to have to shut down beef ranches and oil fields in Texas, orange groves and seasonal farms in Florida, and farming in Ohio. Actually the list is longer but that's just an example. Always look at the overall picture and not localize. In other words you can't have Oregon without all the others. Just my humble opinion.

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Sierra Tahoe Bigfoot Research

Mr. Emery, I appreciate all that you guys are doing up there. I'm confident you have gathered some amazing evidence.

I just worry about possible repercussions toward you if BF is proclaimed real by science and the Feds. I'm thinking a lot of people in the logging business will be upset. What do you think the impact of proving Bigfoot will have on the logging industry? I think it will restrict work up there a thousand times more than the spotted owl ever did.

I'm on your side..... squatches need protection.... we are encroaching on them at a scary pace. I think that is why so many more people are reporting seeing them.

Thanks again for all you are doing for the squatches Bill.

A Question About Sru Lake

Anonymous comments, regarding Sru Lake.

After reading all of the posted messages regarding the sighting location by the Emery team. I hope that someone can please take a moment and clear up some confusion I'm having in regard to the association of Sru Lake and Squaw Lake. From my research I am finding that these are in fact two different lakes located in southern Oregon, both in the Rogue River National Forest.


From what I know Sru Lake is located in Coos County, OR in the northern quadrant of the Rogue River National Forest (approximately 21 miles southeast of Powers,OR). Roughly 70 miles southeast of Sru Lake is Squaw Lake (approximately 15 miles southwest of Ashland,OR) in the southern quadrant of the Rogue River National Forest.

I cannot find any history online identifying where the Sru Lake was previously known as Squaw Lake as identified in the Emery reports. I'm attempting to tag the Emery sighting location for my research records and would appreciate very much if someone could please comment on which of these two lakes that the report originated.

Thank you

Early Fall Poem

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An Early Fall?

There is a wind today in the valley,

A wind that blows down fences and old trees.

A cruel wind scrubs the valley and blows away the leaves.

Fall, I heard you come on the night wind,

Under the clouds shielding the starry sky--

You've come, and now a cruel wind

Blows the valley, from end to end.

Linda Newton-Perry

Guest Editor

British Bigfoot


In 2006, there was a rash of Bigfoot sightings—but not in California, Oregon, or the woods of Minnesota. These sightings were in a British forested area called the Cannock Chase. Mainstream media reported on the sightings, and a lot of attention was focused on the area for a time.

It seems that the earliest reports of a Bigfoot creature in the area came in 1879, when some people reported a ‘man-beast that seemed to be half-man and half-monkey’ in the same general vicinity. Then further reports of a huge, hair-covered creature in 1995, and another when an entire car full of people saw this man-like figure with a black/brown coat in 1998. Still more sightings came in 2003 and 2004, all within the same area of the Cannock Chase. Of course, like in the United States, researchers are somewhat reluctant to get involved; fearing damage to their professional reputation and witnesses often won’t come forward because they fear ridicule.

With the descriptions of the creatures in the Cannock Chase so similar to the United States Bigfoot sightings, including the type of areas, it seems that Bigfoot might have originated in the old country. Seems like it is well past time to dig into those woods and see what, or who, is found.

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