What do you think of the US Forest Service's view on bigfoot?

[georgerm]

This is what Google says: "The US Forest Service's official stance on Bigfoot is that it's a creature of folklore and urban legend, though they have engaged in some playful acknowledgements of the creature. While they don't formally confirm Bigfoot's existence, they maintain open spaces and wildlife habitat on their lands, which could potentially include habitat for such a creature. In fact, the US Forest Service even has a "Mythical Wildlife Division" and has issued tongue-in-cheek "confirmations" of Bigfoot's existence on April Fool's Day." 

[norseman]

They make fun of the subject. Which I find irksome. I do like to deal with the forest service better than the park service. Other than electric bicycles.

[bipedalist]

Don't really care about USFS view (but do care abt USFS because I teamed to do trail maintenance/rehab/bldg with some of their interagency groups), but US Fish and Wildlife Service gave the late Larry Batson a pulpit and interview as well as presentation space in West Virginia twenty some years ago and did not make a farce out of his efforts. His cred as a wildlife educator and rehabilitator gave him entre apparently as well as being geographically situated to the venue.

 

PS Remember the late  William Dranginis had a sighting around Culpeper or Quantico, Virginia with  off duty FBI agents that was detailed to the nth degree, nobody made fun about that at the FBI. 

 

Edited 20 hours ago by bipedalist

[Huntster]

6 hours ago, georgerm said:

........While they don't formally confirm Bigfoot's existence, they maintain open spaces and wildlife habitat on their lands, which could potentially include habitat for such a creature.........

 

This is an interesting statement. In short, they disregard potential existence (notice the wording "don't formally confirm"), yet still point out that an ideology of preservation would benefit such creatures should they actually exist.

 

Enjoying everybody's cake while discouraging (not denying) the possibility that cake actually exists?