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Depends upon how worthy the cause and how strong the men.

Go figure indeed. The homo line gave up quadrupedal locomotion millions of years ago.....

For me, personally, directly, "official discovery" is a non-event. As a knower, I ... know. I don't have an agenda of proof. I don't have a list of people to call and say "I told you so." So in the OP's scenario, I guess I'd finish breakfast and go to work same as any other day. I reckon there'd be some talk at the water cooler. I reckon the "bleebers" would be talkin' "told ya so" and the scoftics (yep, we have them, too) would be sayin' "hoax" ... and nothing would have changed. I'm sure a few people would come to me to ask what I thought and I'd have to tell them "yep, they're real, but I'm not sure about that particular piece of evidence, it can stand or fall without affecting the truth." Hopes have been raised and dashed too many times. Nobody but the greenest noob is going to hang their personal belief on the legitimacy of one piece of evidence and ignore all others. In some matter of weeks - months - years, then I suspect it'd be just matter of fact. The scoffers might have even forgot they'd scoffed (and hoped everyone else had, too). Public .. I reckon will be interested, at least 'til something else newsworthy comes along. The news-watching public has the attention span of a gnat. The bigger impacts will come from the lunatic fringe of various religions (both pro and con), political groups who want to adopt the big guys as their poster child for whatever the cause of the moment is, and so on. I don't know what they are. I'm not CERTAIN of what's best so far as protection. I do have some ideas, but that's all they are, ideas. I suspect the very best that could come out of "proof" is if in that moment of shock we change course. I don't think most of the harm we do comes from malice, it comes from ignorance, "not my problem", and "don't give a ****." Perhaps their discovery could motivate us, inspire us to do the things we should be doing anyway. As it is, we can't look past our immediate gratification to consider that's in our own long term best interest and do something about it. If anything good comes from "discover" of the big guys, that would be the best. Maybe we could learn respect. Gotta respect yourself before you can respect others. Look for bigfoot, find yourself. Dare we look in the mirror they show us? MIB

There is nothing to apologize for. You've never seen one and anecdotal evidence doesn't do it for you......I get it, I have many friends like you. With that said with a discovery? We would all get left in the dust........the amateurs would get shoved aside, and scientists would flock to the subject.

Somehow I think Squatchy will slink away and never be heard from again when BF existence is proven now that he has put money on the line. Or he could be like one of the flat earther's and never believe it. If he seems so confident at ignoring evidence suggesting there is some probability of existence that he will bet, then he will probably never accept proof. There are people that claim we never landed on the moon either.

Prove One and I will: -Eat collective crow on the forum and apologize for my stance. -Donate $1000 US to the BFF in member donations. - I will pay for the PMP premium of every Proponent Member who responds to this thread. This is my word. All you have to do is Prove One. Just One. But you can't though. It can't be an errant circus ape. It has to be absolutely unclassified of its own bipedalness. Unkown to both scientists and Carnies alike. It should look and move like the PGF and it has to be Very Squatchy. That day that OP speaks of won't happen though.

lightheart: Sorry about the delay in responding. Been a lot of stuff going on in the bottoms. The lodge was huge as described by the photographer. Grassy Lake is more like a swamp than a lake. The trees are very thick. The photographer has been on the lake many times in a kayak to film wildlife; his favorite subjects are Cottonmouth Moccasins. (To each his own I suppose.) No, I don't think they stand to eat on the lodge. Everyone I know who have seen them eating anything, say they always squat to eat. That one most likely slept on the lodge during the warm months when the leaves were on the trees. "cal34" wrote that the trees were so thick around the lodge that he could not even maneuver the kayak around to the back side to get a good photograph of the side with the most bones and hair. I became interested in that general area about 25 years ago after I visited a business in a small town a few miles from Grassy Lake. The owner had a few acres and fenced in with 8 or 10 feet high chain link. Immediately adjoining the back side of the property was basically a swamp with some high ground along the outside of the fence. The owner had to be gone for an appointment shortly after I got there and asked that I stick around until he got back. I asked if I could look around outside while he was gone and he readily agreed. I went straight to that back fence. Just outside that fence was the most well used game trail I had ever seen. The trail was only about three feet wide and was overhung with tree limbs and vines. The first eye-opener was that the limbs that had drooped above the trail had been broken off and shoved back out of the way into the standing trees and vines. Then I looked closely at the soft dirt trail. It was covered with tracks of deer, coyote, raccoon, swamp rabbit, opossum, some bob cat and, shining like a new moon were a set of fresh Bigfoot tracks headed east. Amid all the other old tracks there were some weathered BF tracks. When the owner came back, we discussed business and had a chat. He already knew, as did other local residents. I started talking to the older folks who owned property along the major creeks in the general area. Many of them had heard or seen BF, or had lost livestock to them and found the tracks to confirm the animal(s) that killed and carried off their stock. After about three years of prowling around along the creeks, lakes, bayous and wetlands of Conway, Faulkner, and northern Pulaski counties, talking to area residents, and playing recorded BF calls at night, it became obvious that at least some of the BF were using the area from the Cadron Creek bottoms along the Conway/Faulkner county line to the Air Force Base in Jacksonville in Pulaski County as their primary foraging area. During the past two years or so, I began receiving reports directly from folks who live, hunt, fish or routinely drive through that general area of central Arkansas. Some of the reports received were raw data reports from the BFRO which have not been published. When all of the reports and field data were mapped, it clearly showed a somewhat circular area, about thirty miles in diameter with the central area being in the general vicinity of Bell Slough WMA, Palarm Creek, Lake Conway, White Oak Bayou and Grassy Lake near the Pulaski/Faulkner County line. The two BFRO reports that I investigated recently pretty well cinched it for me. The bow hunter’s experience in the portion of Camp Robinson that was given to the Arkansas G & F Commission was the last layer of cake: the sounds he heard came from the upper end of Grassy Lake. The photo “cal34†made was the icing. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_county_reports.asp?state=ar&county=Faulkner http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=10919 http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=39922 http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=40101 As a side note; this area was in the path of the bad killer tornado which hit earlier this month. Clean-up is still underway up there. According to local residents, Grassy Lake was grazed by the twister but not heavily damaged. I understand the AR G & F Commission’s Training Center was heavily damaged by the tornado. It is 3.5 miles from the beaver lodge.