I have viewed numerous photographs of things attributed to Sasquatch's. There is much as yet unknown about this, but from historical references we know that the Sasquatch will mangle young tree's from time to time. I have not seen things like them arranging tree's in any particular fashion, and wonder what use this would be to them. However I do find young tree's that have been mangled as described in historical references, and associated with other evidence of their presence in areas.
The photograph above is one of the first I found of this sort of damaged caused by a Sasquatch. This and six others just like it we found in the Washougal River watershed in 1991. Once inside the upper watershed area, we climbed 2200 feet up the northern boundary and inside the closed canopy, we found Douglas fir trees like the one here photographed broken at 90 degree angles, which measured 8 feet above the ground and the tree where broken measured three inches thick. We followed this sub-ridge horizontally finding more of the same kind of trees broken approximately 100 yards apart. I am sure we would have found more, but the terrain was very difficult to navigate, and I took enough photographs and measurements for my files. This area had a long history of Sasquatch activity, I myself saw one of the creatures near this place in March 1988. I have many reports and associated footprint and feeding behavior from this watershed also. Native American friends told me that the Sasquatch does this for territorial marking.
The photograph above is a close up of the kind of breaks we found in the Washougal watershed. I began watching for this in other regions where I conduct my field work, it is not something found often and can easily be mistaken for weather breaks. Many people are enthusiastic today and think they have found vegetation that a Sasquatch has done something to, but unfortunately they are mistaken and photographs I have viewed are nothing more that weather related. However, one should not get discouraged because this evidence can be located but the searcher must be critical about evidence.
The photograph above is of a tree that measured also three inches thick, it was twisted as someone would wring out a wet towel, tremendous force was used to do this. I measured this at 7 feet above the ground and was otherwise undamaged except this portion of the trunk.
All of the trees I photographed here I found in mid summer and were damaged less than two weeks prior to my finding them. Weather was not an issue as it had been sunny and nice for weeks before I went to the locations. Many times I found such things inside a closed canopy. There were always trees close by of the same age, and none were damaged in any way. They were always in places difficult to get to, and not where people would easily find them if they were faked, reason would have it that a hoaxer would want them found?
I have seen numerous groups that have been created to look for evidence of the Sasquatch. I wanted to post something about the group I originally created in 1975. After meeting John Green and Rene Dahinden that summer, and being part of their investigation into the "Puyallup Screamer" incidents they asked me to assist them in my area. My friends and I had been searching the forests near our homes since the winter of 1972 after finding dozens of footprints made by three Sasquatch's.
I thought we should organize to better search for evidence, I wanted to help Dahinden and Green as much as possible. I called our first group the "Pierce County Sasquatch Investigation Team". The name was simple, it denoted where we were generally looking, it said what we were looking for, and what we were. After graduating high school, the ten of us who were involved in the original group went on to our adult persuits, and we dissolved the group. In the mid 1980's after I moved to Vancouver Washington, many friends expressed interest in becoming involved in my work after I was involved in a project by Knott's Berry Fram regarding the Sasquatch. One friend worked out of the Washington State governors office as an advocate for handicapped children, and had extensive knowledge about creating organizations. We created a mission statement that our goal was to collect credible evidence to prove the existence of the Sasquatch.
We established a board of directors, and constitution to govern the activities of the organization. We filed and became registered as a non-profit corporation dedicated to proving the existence of the Sasquatch, and to this day remain the only group to ever be stated and registered as such.
The photograph above was taken in 1990 in Vancouver Washington, and is of some of the senior staff of the PCSIT. The PCSIT varied over the years of its existence of the numbers of members, but averaged 100 at any given time. By 1998 I moved back to the Puget Sound region of Washington, and other members had similarly moved away, and we dissolved the organization. The PCSIT constitution states clearly in article 2, section 1 that it was organized exclusively for the scientific purposes within the meaning of publication 557 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1987 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law.
The only group I am aware of that was created prior to the PCSIT was the Bay Area Group based out of San Francisco in the early 1970's. The PCSIT existed from 1975 with a break to 1998, and was the first organization created to gather evidence to scientifically support the existence of the Sasquatch.
There exists today two groups of people who believe that the Sasquatch is human, while the other believes it is an ape. No one will know for sure until one can be observed and thoroughly studied in the physical context. Here are some interesting feet and hand comparisons I wanted to show, it is apparent in these comparisons that the characteristics of hands and feet that the Sasquatch would be closer in relation to humans than the apes. The images of ape hands and feet are castings of hands and feet, and are not from deceased animals but molded from living apes.
The photographs above show the hand and foot of an adult Chimpanzee.
The photograph above here show a hand and foot of an adult Gorilla.
The above photograph here shows the hand and foot of an adult Orangutan.
The photograph above shows two different adult Sasquatch footprint casts, the top is one of the footprints cast by Roger Patterson and the bottom one was a 17 inch track cast in 1963 on Liard Mountain road above Bluff Creek, CA.
The photograph above shows from left to right an adult black bear hind foot, an adult human foot, an adult Sasquatch foot cast in 1963 by Al Hodgson at Bluff Creek, and the left and right Patterson Sasquatch feet cast at Bluff Creek in 1967.
The photograph above shows on the left an adult human hand, and on the right an adult Sasquatch hand print cast in 1972.
The morphological similarities between the Sasquatch and human is apparent, and quite different from the Great apes. I would not say that the Sasquatch is human, but likely much closer to humans than apes.
There exist large gaps in the hominid fossil record, perhaps the Sasquatch is one species that fills one of those gaps? Creatures like the Gigantopithecus certainly make the existence of the Sasquatch likely since they were similar, and prove that giant hominid creatures did actually exist. The Gigantopithecus was larger than the Sasquatch, so why couldn't the Sasquatch exist as well?
The photograph above is Bill Munns with his reconstruction of a Gigantopithecus.
