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There have been several sightings of Bigfoot in the past few years near the Missouri River at La Benite Park in Sugar Creek, at the conservation area in Sugar Creek, and in Independence, in that same general area. The Missouri River is 3.66 miles from the recent sighting, and .48 miles from the railroad line, which passes right by the Missouri River. Several people (including me) have heard things that could have been Bigfoot (heavy footsteps on the gravel late at night, loud grunts, and on two occasions, rails being banged against each other, which I doubt a human could do) along the railroad cut that goes directly behind my house, which is 2 miles from the most recent location. The cuts are heavily overgrown with bushes and trees.  I need to write an article about these reports. 

The "Public" involved in the world "Public opinion" would include a large groups of millions of people containing many sub groups. These groups would be expected to have various complicated thoughts on Bigfoot.  Bigfoot is the concern here.  I would have thought the Bigfoot issue as it relates to anyone in the public is a binary choice.  You either believe in Bigfoot or you don't.  Yet it is more complicated than that.    My first thought might be the 3 "Public" camps.   1) Bigfoot doesn't exist 2) Bigfoot might/could exist  3) Bigfoot exists!   If we consider group #3 Bigfoot Exists your post shows me there are further groups in just that group.  That is, some might believe:   -Bigfoot is an Alien riding on space ships. -Bigfoot is an animal known by the government and actively kept hidden from the public for scary reasons. - Bigfoot is real and the government is keeping it quiet until it captures one and can understand it.  Until then they don't want hunters shooting at each other.   -Bigfoot is a form of undiscovered ape man out there in the wilderness more human than ape and more or less human. -Bigfoot is some human like man Ape running around in the wilderness.   -And so on and so on.   If someone thinks the government knows and is actively involved in a secret Bigfoot conspiracy I would contend that is probably a very small number of people.  I say this because it requires not just the belief in bigfoot but a government who can actively cooperate with Bigfoot and work to keep it quiet.   When I say the Jury of Public opinion to me it means group 1 and group 2 can be moved to be more open-minded.  Put another way its moving group 1 to group 2 or 3 to the extent you can.   Does the government know or care?    That is a sub discussion for those in Group 3.  My guess would be only a minority of those in group 3 think that.  Still, such an opinion could very well be true.  I just don't happen to be one of them.  I am open to the idea our government would want to keep important things from the public.  Does Bigfoot reach that level?   Not for me but I am in Group 2 at this time.  Until I moved to group 3, I cannot seriously consider this at the same level as those already in group 3, with all due respect to those who do.                                       

It was around the Toba Inlet if memory serves… and he walked 10 miles to get out. But the Sasquatch did it packing HIM.   I think it’s not much about climate and a whole lot about human management. I read that 6 million sheep were just in the state of Montana in 1900. Now there aren’t that many in the entire country. In my lifetime many mills have shut down. Just had this discussion in Libby Montana. Nary a log truck anywhere. Millions of acres of national forest. If we don’t manage it? Mother Nature will, and she doesn’t care about property lines, houses, livestock, pets, people, etc.    And then on top of it? Several of these fires in the Spokane area were arson. People using red flag warning days to intentionally go start catastrophic fires.    BTW, we didn’t go out on that fire. Because we were on the wrong list. 🙄 We are on the VEPR list and they needed EERA personnel. Even though the VEPR list is supposed to be dispatched before the Emergency list. Bureaucracy!

That comes naturally with all subjects. For example, the U.S. military studied IQ ratios among young men over a century ago and came up with the policy of not accepting any inductees with an IQ under 83. That includes 12% to 13% of the standardized population, and just 3 points above the mean of Koko's IQ.    The current sasquatch industry is perfect for government. Few intellectuals believe they exist (so they reject existence and refuse to invest in searches), but there is a vibrant industry to be taxed selling sasquatch gear and knick-knacks and now numerous sasquatch videos being produced (which also helps with the doubt in existence with ridiculous content), but government still has zero responsibility in management, whether the species is a species of Homo or not. 

I would contend that they don't want an aura of mythology, rather an aura of quackery or idiocracy .  I truly believe they actively promote knuckleheads that make outrageous claims (Bigfoot got me pregnant!!!), to keep the general public snickering at the mere mention of the subject.