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Arent we at a point that anything to do with Melba Ketchum is just Comedy fodder

This seems to be the case. I wish we could find a military guy that was present at the Mt. Saint Helens bigfoot cover up. The whole story is strange. Agree, and is there any proof?

But it hasn't been that way for all of the last 60 years. I mean think about it. Some discovers a Denisovan pinky bone and the archaeological landscape erupts and funding comes out of the woodwork. This is for something that has been laying in a cave in Siberia dead for 40,000 years or so. Sasquatch however is supposedly alive and still kicking in our own back yards and........and nothing. We need to stop making excuses for why the situation with Sasquatch persists to this day. Let's take the media for example. Broadcasting time and paying anchor people and audio/visual engineers to run a story about some sighting isn't cheap even when it's covered by advertising dollars. Either way one looks at it, it's a chunk o' change just so that the anchor people can snicker and do a bit of eye rolling. Advertisers will pay for that but won't cough up a dime for research? Sorry but, again, the excuses we make for everyone from agencies to the private sector for why discovery of an 800 lbs. two-legged, hairy biped hasn't happened just isn't cutting it. After a while none of that makes ay sense whatsoever including academic funding. Especially when one sees what DOES get funded. Some of the things academic monies go to can't hold a candle to what finding a large novel primate would mean. There's just no comparing a Sasquatch to salamanders in a pond, or a study that results in putting up a Marmot crossing sign on a national park road. The discovery of a large North American primate beats everything else hands down by a mile. And not one official dollar goes toward that discovery? There is something really wrong with that.

The national debt takes away from the GDP for our country ( 77% of the GDP last time I looked), we are no longer THE most influential country in the world. I certainly can't see the government spending federal dollars on bigfoot, for good or bad, when they can't fix their own internal problems that affect the humans occupying this country.

Thanks, ShadowBorn, I truly love living here in BC, and miss the mountains when I travel to the "flatlands" of the Prairies, but every place has it's own special beauty. I've been in the high desert country of eastern Wa., and NV., and the boreal forest of northern Alberta in Feb., at -20, and found them all to have a unique charm.

Thanks for the information. I went with the Flir Scout TK, mainly for the ability to record video without having to rely on an external recorder. I get it in tomorrow, so I hope to get it into the field this weekend. For those of you who are looking for a Flir TK, pay attention to eBay. Authorized Flir dealers will run specials on eBay that they do not offer on their own websites. I was able to get one if these units for under $500 shipped....no tax.

They do not care what a rifle or a shotgun is . What they care about is when they here the shot go off . For them it means easy game if they find it first. That's what matters to them since it's easy pickings . They might even watch those hunters and wait. The same goes with bow hunters . It does kind a of make you wonder about those missing hunters though and why they never come back. Some day some person might walk into an undiscovered cave that has been well hidden and find human remains and lots of them . What a surprise that will be for that person. I can just imagine how the Gov might stop that person from opening their mouths from spilling the beans. Can you imagine cannibals out there snatching people and being eaten and finding out that it is being done by these giant hairy red hair beast. ( oops ) That would give a good reason why the Gov would want to have these creatures go extinct. Also why they would do it as quietly as possible and might be why sightings are so few. But this is just my opinion.