Since the above mentioned information has hit the public via newspapers, radios, TVs, a magazine and various web sites, I have received quite a few encounter and sighting reports, all dating back from the 80s, 90s and 2000 +, none for 2006, yet.

I would like to acknowledge what this site has done to help us here at Sasquatch Yukon and I would also request that if any other person believe that they may have had a Sasquatch encounter of some sort while in the Yukon, or a close location such as Alaska, BC or NWT, please do contact me.

Every bit of information helps.

Thanks again for the “Beaver Eater” story.

When you have time could you send me the report from Mr Eugene Field?

cho01 and I are now in contact, lots of work ahead.

Have a good one, Red

First, I would like to forward my appreciation to John for bringing this subject to the attention of the readers.

Secondly, CBC Yukon has done us a favor by informing the public of our existence.

One has to understand that the Yukon is a small place, people wise, with only some 32,000 or so, of us up here in a fairly large part of Canada. Only a few communities with very few roads, which adds up to plenty of empty spaces, room to roam for any creature that wishes to remain unseen.

The reason that a group of us interested Yukoners have started this, is simply to have our very own Yukon team of local investigators, to add a home flavour so to speak.

We are members of the Western Canadian Sasquatch Reasearch Organization (WCSRO), which conducts research and investigations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Yukon.

Prior to us getting more involved and so informing the public, there was only one member of WCSRO up here and he was not able to spend the time required to conduct appropriate field research.

So this is not really news of something NEW. Its more like a revival, a given of a new breath, a kick re-start.

With today’s high cost of gas, for ever increasing cost of food and lodging, it only make sense that a home group will do the work, under the guidance of more experienced researchers such as those at the WCSRO.

And it has produced results, as since the CBC reports I have received ten encounter reports, from sightings, to footprints, to odors, to hair samples. All of which have investigated or being in the process of investigating. Results of which have been or will be sent to the WCSRO.

Reader tim_hendrix was asking what do researchers do actually do, if you will allow me I would like to walk through an investigation and I will use a recent footprint investigation that I recently conducted as an example.

I received a report of someone finding extremely large human looking footprints. First I called the reporter and she confirmed that they were large and looking like a bare human foot, then she explained the details of how it was found, date, time, location, etc… I then set a date for visit, which actually was the day after she called me, the key is to investigate ASAP. I then told her to use a rope and encircle the site so that people would not destroy it by walking over the prints.

This community is six hours drive away from Whitehorse, when I got there I met the lady in question and she took me over to the site. It was secured with a rope but I added red surveyor tape just to make the site more evident.

As prints were pointed out to me I marked each one of them with a blue flag at mid foot, in sequence. At the same time I checked them to see if any were good for casting. Unfortunately none were.

I then took photos and a video of the entire scene and of each print from various angles.

Then I started measurements, first each print was measured in sequence, length followed by width at the toes, mid foot and heel.

While so doing, photos were taken with the measuring tape in situ with a “loonie”" on the tape for comparison.

I then took more photos with a measuring graph on each print.

Following that I took measurement of the distance in between each footprint, from the flag marker that I had placed at mid foot of each.

GPS reading was then taken and all the above recorded in my field note book as measurements were taken.

If prints would have been good enough for casting I would then have taken casts of them. But this was not the case.

When casts are taken, the caster must at least write the location, date, time and his/her name in the cast using a sharp instrument.

If there are two team members doing the investigation, one of them should video the entire investigation.

Once the measurement was done, I then conducted an in depth interview of the reporter. This should be recorded as well.

I then double checked my notes and all other records before calling it a day.

I returned to Whitehorse the following day and after checking everything again sent the whole bit to our lab and analyses facilities.

One has to keep in mind that since each encounter is different the investigation and follow up research will be different.

Good investigation teams should have written procedures as to what to do during field investigations.

Hope this helps.

Now a note for chi01 from Carmacks, Yukon, would you please get hold of me at sasquatchyukon@hotmail.com

Thank you , Yukon Red

Money? Or lack of it for a real concerted effort? Hard for a few people in a few spare weekends to make a dent in the possibilities.