seems to get left in clear areas like road or trail. Cant tell you about sasquatch, but I have not found bear scat in the bushes or off trail by trees. I scout off-trail a lot, where elk droppings are plentiful, but not bear.
Shape of bear scat is rarely tapered, more often lumpy like small horse apples. Large grizzlies eating sedges in spring will leave big piles of droppings that look like horse-apples.
Bear scat is sometimes puddled, but rarely soupy like a cow pie. If your black bears at this time of year are still grazing on blueberries, that will darken it almost black. Apple seeds, fur, grape and melon seeds, corn kernals, blueberry leaves etc may be also be prominent in bear scat during the fall. All of these foods may at times be contained in sasquatch scat, I suppose, only I would expect lots more of it.
The contents of black bear scat reflect an omnivorous intake, probably similar to sasquatch, only 2x or 3x smaller. There may be bone bits and fur along with seeds and corn kernals in both. I speculate that sasquatch scat might look exactly like scat from a big coastal brown bear if both animals are the same size, while only a small sasquatch would leave scat that looks like Blackie's.
Good luck on your next trip! Seems to me that thermal imaging, where you can see creatures in pitch black, might help you have a more productive encounter. I might not mind flying to Michigan some weekend with my thermal imager, cheap as it is these days to fly.
As for infra-red and night vision, local researchers here in Oregon who have tried game cameras with infrared have reported that sasquatch seems to see infra-red and easily avoids it.
Your experience carrying guns around them is very unusual. Why aren't they afraid of your guns?
Posted on Oct 14, 2002, 5:51 PM from IP address 159.121.9.50