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I find some of them THINK it is their goal, but ultimately are not digging into their desire to kill one deep enough. I think the idea of killing one or just having to prove their existence to save them is naive to start with. If you kill one I am pretty sure it is certainly a illegal thing to do, seeing as how they are at least a undocumented species and possibly even a sort of human(which would be murder). You aren't going to be famous for it, you are going to be infamous, you aren't going to get rich, you wont even get to keep the things body. The body will not be the killer's property, but the US Governments for sure, and the situation will go from there. Considering the damage their discovery WILL do to the lumber industry(If not numerous others), it will likely be considered a issue of national security. Could ruin alot of lives, not to mention the bigfoots once we start trying to control and fidget around with them like we do everything else. That same impulse to control, manipulate, and fidget with everything is the same impulse people have to kill a *Insert mysterious/new species name here*.

It should be also noted that this and almost every other primate discovery was made by fully funded researchers and scientists who spent long periods of time in these areas with top notch equipment. In Sasquatchery we have a small select group of people who take the subject as serious, and only have a very limited { self funded } amount of money and time to put into research efforts. For most Bigfootery is a hobby and not a serious pursuit, they would much rather have a dirt bike, go on five star vacation or have a awesome cellphone and plan every time a new phone comes out. It is no mystery as to why we have not found Bigfoot yet.

Powell purposely selected the most primitive Native American cultural artifacts available and stated that there was no reason to expect anything more advanced anywhere else in America, then concluded that it was futile to continue down paths of research investigating European contact and origins. My family has had several run ins with Reid, including a 5 am call from him personally to my parents' home making a certain demand. He declined to participate in a public event involving a charity my parents founded to support the family members of deployed servicemen during the Gulf War in the 90's, then started showing up when he realized that the crowds, and donors, were in the thousands, and then he attempted to redirect the effort away from its intended purpose. He is consistently self-serving. Hellbilly, I missed your post, was it on this thread? All we know is that the Smithsonian took possession of certain artifacts and nobody's heard about them since. Two-fold effect. Taken out of circulation, remains cannot be examined by a third party and, relegated to a closet someplace, you can usually count on remains being forgotten for the most part.

Really? It was stated as if was a fact. Here's your statement: Without some sort of substantiation, this would appear to be opinion.

Yet again, this book. It is very well documented http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Giants-Who-Ruled-America-ebook/dp/B00HDGKYS2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397312622&sr=8-1&keywords=giants+america I fail to see what this has to do with von Daniken. I do not ascribe to any connection between Bigfoot and UFO's or Ancient Aliens. You may feel free to associate the topics, but I have never seen anything that would compel me to do so. In my opinion, the use of the word "giant" to describe remains is problematic because it is both non-specific and has taken on a sensationalist connotation. Actual size should be used instead. Logic: 1. Three mummified Si-Teh-Cah skeletons from a Cave near Walker Lake, Nevada were on display in Virginia City, Nevada for decades. 2. I personally viewed them multiple times. 3. Other mummified skeletons of the same people were found in Lovelock Cave, Nevada. 4. It is highly unlikely that this tall race of Native Americans was confined to a few dozen individuals living in two caves in Nevada. 5. One would expect to find such remains in other areas of America. 6. Large remains of similar description have been reported to be found throughout America. 7. The Smithsonian has been connected to several of these finds. 8. Thomas Powell, the head of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology is on record setting a policy "On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data". This is the actual title he gave it and is in direct contradiction to the stated objective of the Smithsonian to broaden the diffusion of knowledge among men. 9. Thomas Powell was concerned that Native American anthropological finds would be used "unwisely", in his view, to connect Native American culture to "...so-called races of antiquity in other portions of the world". Powell's words again. 10. Powell was specifically concerned about anything that might link Native Americans to popular theological origins, which might engender positive public perception. Evidence of "giants in the earth" in America, qualified, and worse, the commonly accepted theological origin of such giants was also problematic to him. 11. Sensational title aside, the book referenced above documents the collection of such remains by the Smithsonian. 12. There is no accounting regarding the large remains that the Smithsonian collected, and the Powell Doctrine specifies that the use of such remains should be "limited". 13. It is reasonable to conclude that use of any such remains in the possession of the Smithsonian has indeed been "limited". They probably have not actually been destroyed, but they are probably deeply buried within the Smithsonian. 14. It is possible that the large remains collected include both Bigfoot and members of the race of exceptionally tall humans. Where is my logic flawed here?

There is no science. This is a Sasquatch forum and Sasquatch doesn't exist in the eyes of science. This entire forum is based on assumption, eyewitness testimony and experiences and ideas that have no science related to them whatsoever. Until one is nailed and there is a body on a slab, I see no reason whatsoever to talk about any of the ideas and assumptions on this forum and continue to try and bring science or scientific thinking into it at all as science simply does not acknowledge this subject full stop. So it's no wonder that people on this forum, especially witnesses, do not see science as the be all and end all, unlike skeptics of course. It's a double edged sword on both sides of the fence.