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

[norseman]

8 minutes ago, Silverback Sax said:

We're mostly on the same page.  Though I have a hard time describing them as endangered considering their weakest totally out classes our strongest.  Maybe by human derived statistics, but let's be honest, they seem to do as they please ... where they please, by rules we can't quite comprehend. 

Endangered has nothing to do with physical attributes. 
 

What are their total numbers? Offspring survivability? Range shrinking or growing? Individuals healthy? Aging? 

[Pembo]

12 hours ago, norseman said:

Endangered has nothing to do with physical attributes. 
 

What are their total numbers? Offspring survivability? Range shrinking or growing? Individuals healthy? Aging? 

Agreed. “Endangered” as far as I am aware is based on current, provable, population of any animal. Seeing as no-one has yet managed to ‘prove’ the existence of a single Sasquatch, convincing anyone of a sufficient population that they wouldn’t be considered “endangered” seems an impossibility. 

[norseman]

 

[georgerm]

On 9/10/2025 at 8:28 AM, norseman said:

 

 

The video that Norseman attached to this thread is a good one to watch all the way to the end. Three guys were assigned a task that required them to camp out and to collect data about the forest for a month or two. It's quite interesting and you will hear about one of the Foresters leaving camp and going into the deep woods. While in the Deep Woods a large animal crashes through the brush and makes a ruckus he gets a glimpse of the thick fur and the ferociousness of this animal. Watch the video to the end because it's fascinating.

 

About 150th of all public lands are clear-cut once a year. Two agencies, the Forest Service (FS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), conduct timber sales as an authorized use. Together, the FS and the BLM manage 76% of federal forest area. FS manages 144.9 million acres, while BLM manages 37.6 million acres. The lands they manage are covered with forest that they will harvest so we have a wood supply for home builders and others. The land that our government agencies manage amounts is more than 180 million acres.

 

Throughout the forest where there are endangered species animals, potential endangered species, and Bigfoot that that has no endangered species identification. The forest service wildlife biologist will make sure that logging does not further reduce the endangered species animals. As long as the government protects deer and other animal populations by maintaining a constant amount of timber production that is designed so trees are not cut down where endangered species are living.  in other words, about on 1/50th of the forest will be cut each year which allows cut areas to grow back over another 50 year period. Bigfoot will always have plenty of timber to nest in and food to eat providing the sustained yield logging method is kept up yearly. When the government practices sustained yield logging that may take 50 years to make a complete cycle, and the first cycle begins with clear cutting a 36 million acres of forest each year. the first year of cutting Forest will amount to 36 million acres that will be scattered all across the United States throughout the different National Forest. Each plot will be laid out by a Forester on a rotating basis tell all 180 million acres has been cut and replanted over a 50 year about how long it takes a new seedling to grow to maturity.

[Backdoc]

 

On 9/9/2025 at 10:55 AM, Pembo said:

Agreed. “Endangered” as far as I am aware is based on current, provable, population of any animal. Seeing as no-one has yet managed to ‘prove’ the existence of a single Sasquatch, convincing anyone of a sufficient population that they wouldn’t be considered “endangered” seems an impossibility. 

 

 

"The beginning of Wisdom is the definition of terms" -- Socrates.

 

We use terms like Endangered or Extinct. These terms have a general near universal meaning to the public.   

 

No matter what the legal or established definition of an endangered or extinct our government would -IF NEEDED - redefine any term or restrict as they saw fit if the need to do so was great enough.      

 

I don't think Bigfoot rises to that level of concern as I don't think Bigfoot is an established animal to science and our government as a whole.  

 

Once we have one on a slab, who knows what they might try to do and why.   

[Huntster]

9 minutes ago, Backdoc said:

..........We use terms like Endangered or Extinct. These terms have a general near universal meaning to the public...........

 

While I agree that there is a near universal meaning to the public of the word "extinct", I strongly disagree that there is much agreement at all with the word "endangered".,

 

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.........No matter what the legal or established definition of an endangered or extinct our government would -IF NEEDED - redefine any term or restrict as they saw fit if the need to do so was great enough..........

 

Agreed, and I believe that has already occurred with the word "endangered".

 

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.........Once we have one on a slab, who knows what they might try to do and why..........

 

Agreed, and I opine that even getting one on the slab has been "discouraged" by "them".