I think it is, too. I haven't "bothered with" email, instead I walked into the F&W district office and talked to a couple biologists. For all practical purposes I was laughed out of the building. (Might have been interesting to hear their conversation after I left, huh?) I'm not "done". My next attempt will be to catch them one-on-one in the field where peer pressure won't be a potential issue and they might be more likely to be more open with personal experience rather than regurgitating department party line. Same plan goes for the game cops .. those are a special detail within our state police in my state, not part of the F&W service.
IMHO if there is a conspiracy to cover up bigfoot, going through official channels is not going to uncover it, they've already got that covered. We have to go end-around, find people one-on-one, and do it in ways they're not on record disputing their department's unofficial official policies. Trying to get them on record contradicting policy is akin to asking them to commit professional suicide. We can either get the answer we want, or we can get an answer how we want it, but we're not going to accomplish both at once ... the "deck" is already stacked against us in that regard.
MIB