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They're both delicious.

No offense but you have a very simple minded approach as to what concerns the government…… The spotted owl was not a national security threat either. And yet it’s endangered species status destroyed an entire industry. When I was in the oil field? It was sage grouse that was the spotted owl . They used this bird to kick the oil industry in the teeth in Montana. Where the Federal government was strong. It had little effect on drilling in North Dakota where there is little Federal land. Back to the point I was trying to make. The government KNOWS about Bigfoot. And they choose to make fun of it and it’s believers. This is exactly what they did with UFOs as well. This way they don’t need to keep a secret…. they just tar and feather everyone that takes it seriously. Why? This at least in my mind is where we have room to speculate. I have voiced what I feel could be valid concerns of the government. And why they choose to do what they do. None of it has anything to do with a national security risk. But that has never stopped the federal government from doing whatever they want to do anyhow…..

Agreed. Sasquatches are, for all intents and purposes, extinct. If they could be brought back to viability, I don’t see how that would save the world. I’m not a tree hugger or whale savior. I frankly believe they should be left alone.

Agreed. Both Government and Science know that the phenomenon exists, whether that means a physical creature or social psychological belief, recently extinct creature, or whatever. Both also possess a perceived position of authority and responsibility towards society to look into scientific matters for us, and both participate in going as far as to prohibit us from doing such on our own in many matters without permission. But of the two, Science has always taken the back seat in both responsibility and authority to Government, and Government has openly commanded authority in all matters, going as far as to control Science (like everything else) primarily with the power of the purse. If Government has even a clue that a rare and potentially endangered species inhabits federal lands, its responsibility is to investigate the matter. The very reason why the Endangered Species Act was legislated into law was to create a legal framework by which concerned parties could legally petition Government to review the status of other species because Government has proven in th past that it couldn't be trusted to do so in the face of political, economic, or other pressures. That is the very premise of this thread: the combined weights of authority and responsibility, which rests only with Government. They are not to wait for a sasquatch to fall out of the sky into their laps (which has likely already occurred). It is their responsibility to look into the matter, which they have not done in any way, shape, or matter.........at least, that is what we see and (if asked) they will imply. The Endangered Species Act itself did not fall out of the sky. It was preceded by The Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, signed into law on October 15 of that year..........one year and five days before the famous filming of Bluff Creek by Patterson and Gimlin, and some 11 years after Jerry Crew casted the first prints of the area and made the issue famous. The 1966 law was amended in 1969, then finally superseded in 1973 with the current law. How does one defeat the responsibility of managing a rare and endangered species? By ignoring the very existence of that species. That is easily done with simple ignorance, precisely what we have seen since 1967. Because if sasquatches existed up to 1967, that would allow Government (at all levels, local, state, and federal) over two centuries of authority over lands and wildlife to figure it out. Casting aside much of that time to a well recognized period of complete (and admitted) abject irresponsibility (and even happy participation in rendering wildlife extinct), we can say that the past century and a quarter of Government stewardship has given them plenty of time and opportunity to figure it out. So, beginning with the President Theodore Roosevelt administration (interestingly, the one president who told sasquatch stories), the American federal government has shown concern towards wildlife. That means over a century of opportunity to simply stumble upon a carcass. Given that the U.S. Army has owned and operated a major Army post since 1917 smack dab in the U.S. county that has the highest number of sasquatch reports in the BFRO database (and with many of those reports on Army lands there), it's a pretty tall order fir me (a former Army lands official) to believe that the Army hasn't looked into the issue........with the expected official silence. Correct. Unlike extraterrestrial aliens, we know that sasquatch type creatures existed in the distant past in Asia and Africa. Yet look at how much Government has invested in the search for extraterrestrial life........ My theory is that, yes, Government knows. I don't really know what that means, but Government's behavior is the natural fertilizer to theorize further about their motives and reasons for discouraging discovery.