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It's taken heroic means to save the Condor. It remains to be seen if we can save it long term or increase the population in future decades. It's a lot easier to trap or grab those last few condors in the wild and try to get them help they needed when they were almost extinct. This has helped. Moving on to Bigfoot: If Bigfoot exists, we have two types of pathways to try to save Bigfoot. 1) Save it because we would try to save any animal, snake, bunny rabbit or whatever. 2) Save it because it is some human like ape of a higher order so it's less moral to kill it or allow it to be killed off. Under either circumstance, I am of the opinion of Grover Kranz where he basically said science will only accept a body. If it is the last one, it was the last one anyway. I can see a scenario where someone shoots Bigfoot. After the news hype calms there is quick movement to save Bigfoot from killing as an assumed endangered species. In this way the death of one Bigfoot (Body on a slab) results in efforts to help the population and understanding long term.

sketch from Google ..........logging regulations in Montana have been so severe that the mills have closed and profits from timber production are minimal. In their words the forest are shanked," waitress. Are shanked forest good for bigfoots to reproduce and raise young? This biological enigma should be included in timber production plans. Do the federal foresters/biologist even recognize Bigfoot? "While the Bitterroot National Forest is mentioned, Montana has several other national forests, including the Kootenai, Helena-Lewis and Clark, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge, all of which likely have areas that could be described as "shanked" due to forest management practices," Google. Trump wants logging to increase by "unshanking" the forest so clear cutting, stream protection and logging road building can happen efficiently. "Decline in Timber Harvest: The amount of timber harvested in Montana has declined significantly since the late 1980s. This is partly due to factors such as federal regulations, environmental concerns, and the decline of the traditional logging industry," Google.

Which is why the argument that they are too rare or threatened to be harvested in the name of science is null and void. If a population cannot suffer the loss of one or two individuals? It’s on its way out anyway, so why would science not want to document it? And it would appear that genetic labs are bringing back a whole host of extinct animals. So why not preserve the genetic legacy in the hopes that in the future it can be reintroduced?

Logging and burns are good for ungulate populations. Creating browse for Moose, Elk and Deer. If Bigfoot hunts ungulates? Then it would benefit them as well. These elk are hanging out in a burn area a couple of weeks ago in the CDA Nat Forest.