Adrian grew up on a small farm in the bush of northern Alberta, Canada, hunting and trapping with his father at an early age to augment the meager income from farming. His first encounter with a Sasquatch was in 1959 when he was seven years old. By the age of 16, while still in high school, he was guiding American moose hunters, and had his second encounter with a sasquatch. After graduation Adrian expanded his guiding and outfitting business into reclamation work for the oil and gas industry.

Adrian's first love was hunting, and by age 26 he had switched strictly to bow hunting. Much of his hunting at the time took him to remote locations in Alberta and British Columbia where he had other sasquatch encounters. While in his forties, Adrian's companies (including drilling, construction and helicopters) had grown to a large international group generally working in seismic exploration for the oil and gas industry in many countries around the world. During this period his bow hunting took him to many countries in Africa where he successfully hunted all the dangerous game with only a bow and arrow.

In 2001 an encounter with a sasquatch crossing the road in front of him was the catalyst that drove him to find out everything he could about this elusive creature. Adrian’s research lead him to becoming an investigator for the BFRO in 2003 and by 2005 had literally talked to hundreds of witnesses who were relieved to finally speak about sasquatches to someone who took them seriously and who had seen them himself.

In the same year, Adrian had a vision of secluded estates set in nature, and created Regal Ridge, a world class acreage development in Osoyoos British Columbia, Canada, where his two sons Jason and Ryan work with him today.

In 2005 Adrian started The Erickson Project, the first multi-site field study of the sasquatch in both Canada and the USA with the goal to have the sasquatch recognized as a species.

 

  
 
   
Dennis Pfohl is an active outdoorsman who has lived in Northern Colorado most of the last 23 years. He is married to Shannon Pfohl and has four children, Jeremy, Cory, Daniel and Emma.

Dennis has pursued a number of professions over the years beginning at 17 with obtaining his C.N.A. Certification and working in the medical field, and in the most recent past starting and maintaining his own professional window cleaning business. His many years of wilderness camping and hiking have honed his tracking and outdoor skills.

Dennis became interested in bigfoot and started researching the subject in 2000 after finding a track near a mountain lake in Colorado. In 2004, he joined the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization as an investigator and has since become the lead investigator for the state of Colorado. This responsibility requires him to manage the other Colorado investigators, coordinate local expeditions and investigate reports to the database.

For the past six years as Project Manager for the Erickson Project, Dennis travels to research locations in United States and Canada regularly to coordinate efforts in the collection of evidence by working in the field with the locals. This evidence has come in the form of audio, video and physical evidence such as tracks and DNA. Other responsibilities include procuring audio and video equipment and using the latest technology, analyzing new potential locations, determining credibility of eyewitnesses and working closely with the relevant scientists in order to identify and validate evidence. The goal of this project is to bring forth enough evidence for the recognition of this species and the protection of it by the scientific community, and governments.

 

  
 
   

Dr. Leila Hadj-Chikh earned a B.S. in Biology from Wilkes University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University in 2003. After completing fieldwork for her dissertation, she moved to California in 2002 to pursue her interest in conservation biology, by working on a forest-disease project for the Wildlife Conservation Society. In 2005, her interest in the sasquatch phenomenon led her to attend an expedition with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in northern California.

After talking to several witnesses who were also attending the expedition, she decided to pursue an active role in sasquatch investigations. In the fall of 2005, she became the Project Scientist for the Erickson Project, teaching proper methods of evidence collection to other project participants, and collecting evidence for evaluation by fellow scientists. She is now working on websites for conducting a quantitative study of sasquatch sightings, and for developing the capacity for citizen scientists to contribute to sasquatch research through DNA collection.

  
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Randy Brisson, is 52 years old, lives in Vancouver B.C. and works in Construction. For 42 years a love of  hiking and camping led him into the local Mountains where he had his first Sasquatch sighting in 2006. After this sighting Randy decided to find out more about them and began actively looking for them.

Now after 5 years of interacting with sasquatch, he has collected the evidence needed to prove the Sasquatch exists. In 2009 he got together with Adrian Erickson along with son Ray and Zoli  Bartha, and had subsequent encounters with sasquatch, which produced great results including DNA samples.  To this day, Randy continues his interaction and study the Sasquatch in B.C.

 
 
   

Zoltan Bartha resides in the beautiful Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. He has been researching Sasquatch since 2005. He is an outdoorsman specializing in tracking, field audio and video recording. Zoltan is part of the B.C. team which have found numerous confirmed DNA samples and has been working with the Erickson Project since 2009. He is the Owner of a Renovation & Construction business and married for 30 years.

  
 
   

Raymond Brisson, Lives in Vancouver B.C. is 17 Years old and is in Grade 12,  Ray has been hiking and camping with his Dad since 1 year old, and by accompanying him, had many encounters with Sasquatch, including sightings. Ray is still active in sasquatch research with his Dad and Mom.