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    • Backdoc
      If we had such a population, we should expect to have a new PGF-level film on a regular basis.  These would occur often (more than 1 time in 50 years) by regular people out there with cell phones.   Assuming Bigfoot is real, I account for this lack of Patterson-level video by the small number of Bigfoot out there.   Bigfoot country makes it harder as well but even in a thick wilderness we can find about anything and film it if there is enough of them.   Lack of many new PGF-level films simply supports/reinforces the notion by the scientific community Bigfoot is not likely out there.     Deer, Bob Cats, or even the rare Wolverine are caught on video.   The more common the animal, the increased ease of capturing it on video.     Some parts of our government involved in an area of expertise are generally sitting on their hands until such time they are forced to become reactionary.   They are not likely to be pre-emptive.             Probably about the same reason about anyone else doesn't know they exist.   I was confident- prior to AI fake stuff- if we had a home run clear PGF 2.0 it would prove to most people Bigfoot exists.  Now if we had such a film there would be a big "It's got to be fake" feeling out there about Bigfoot or anything else extraordinary.  Yet, if we truly had a new, Provable, Home-Run level PGF video or better (and esp. a Body on a slab) Government, non-government and so on would all respond on their own level to these new circumstances.  They would react then.   Not until then.   BTW most people care very little about much outside their own reality until it comes into their life and affects them directly.             If CNN, Fox, and so on had 50 reporters with cameras interviewing a hunter who shot a Bigfoot the public would react.  Government would react.  The public would pressure the government to further act.   Science skeptics would react.  Some might even apologize to Jeff Meldrum, and so on.   Sure, the tree huggers would want Bigfoot protected and some hunter might want to shoot one for their wall but shoot their neighbor by accident.     But....   The first thing- Provable Bigfoot-has to occur for any and all those things and more to occur.   IF PROOF then REACTION.        
    • norseman
      If a viable population of Ape men is roaming the hinterlands of north America today?   Can you give me any good reasons as to why the federal government wouldn’t know it exists?   Why is the Smithsonian exempt from the Indian Graves Act?   It’s a simple formula for the government to be clear of conspiracy. Just be transparent.   They wont be.
    • Huntster
      Your horse is not dead, it lives in myth. And it's not a horse. It's a unicorn, which doesn't exist. If it was a horse, people would petition for it to be saved. Since it's a unicorn, and everybody knows that unicorns don't exist, nobody knows or cares about it.
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    • Huntster
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service     The department has existed at least as a management agency for 150 years. How long has the department have timber cruisers out running around in virgin, old growth forests in primary Sasquatch habitat in the Pacific Northwest where they would run across sasquatch footprints, howls, sightings, etc? The earliest references to "rangers" and government timber sales surveys are right about the turn of the 20th century (or about 120 years). But there is an even more critical example of government knowing about sasquatchery:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lewis_(Washington)     From the beginning of the existence of Ft. Lewis (109 years ago), situated in prime sasquatch territory and in Pierce County, WA, which features one of the highest densities of sasquatch reports in the nation, there have been soldiers (thousands of them) running around, camping, conducting nighttime training, and generally living in the woods there. There is absolutely, positively no way (no how) that sasquatch reports have not been regularly reported to the post commanders (and thus to commanding generals, almost certainly "unofficially") over the past 109 years.    If sasquatches exist (or existed), Pierce County WA was one of the most densely inhabited  areas of their range (according to report densities), and the Army knew it. Guaranteed.    The Army operates (and always has, since before the founding of our nation and when it was under the Union Jack) under a "need to know" basis. It's institutional. No, every soldier in the Army, or even every soldier who was posted at Ft. Lewis doesn't know, so the "conspiracy" isn't "giant".     I know of few to no reports of thunderbirds, and such reports would likely be most interesting to the USFWS, not the USFS. Currently, there is quite a big issue with giant snakes in Florida, and the reason why the USFS is not directly involved with it is because the USFS isn't managing forests there, but the USFWS and NPS are deeply involved, and there is no secrecy because every agency involved (both state and federal) have determined that killing the snakes are in the best interests of everybody, so they encourage that. If the USFS and Army determined that the killing of sasquatches was desired, I can assure you that they'd let you know about them..........and my suspicion is that they keep their existence completely unofficial specifically in order to discourage the harassment, disturbing, hunting, bothering, and killing of sasquatches to a minimum. The best way to do that with the public is to keep them a myth. That was incredibly easy to do prior to 1967. The PGF made it a bit more difficult. So, essentially, sasquatches have been publicly "out-of-the-bag" for 59 years.     One doesn't keep secrets by recording them on paper..........or now in emails, even if you hide them in your bathroom at home. These kinds of secrets are word of mouth, and kept among few trusted persons.
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