Historicaly the us government has shown no interest in BF

The old Soviet govt, however, was involved in searching for almas…

make of that what you will

There are conspiracies, but they are small, of shorter term duration and usually get discovered and outed somewhere along the way. Nixon and Watergate is a perfect example of a conspiracy, and what usually happens to them. I’ve worked for a “outdoors” state agency for 20+ years and interact regularly with the National Park Service, the Forest Service and US Fish & Wildlife as well as various other state agencies. To get everyone on the same page on mundane issues is extremely difficult and usually frustrating. But for everyone to cooperate on a massive secret that eventually requires you to bring in private entities as well? Forget it Gee, some folks really don’t understand how laborious and inefficient bureaucracy can be. Massive, long-term conspiracies are only easy to carry out on the ‘X-Files.’

Without diverging too far, someone pointed to “globalism” as if it were a conspiracy. Actually, it is more a mindset or consensus that many politicians and bureaucrats have gradually accepted over time, in part due to our rapidly advancing communications and travel technology that “shrink” the planet. Documents are out and not that secretive that reveal the opinions of politicians, corporate heads and financial insitutions. Will your government lie and omit details? You bet. The decrease of nationalism and rise of globalism doesn’t get much press because most journalists and news organizations see nothing wrong with it. Our society also has information overload and sometimes when such a story does run, it doesn’t get noticed or simply fails to create groundswell of public opinion. Politicians often count on public apathy!

But my point is, globalism is not a deep, dark secret, orchestrated by a handful of elites who have managed to pull the wool over hundreds of millions of peoples’ eyes for decades or centuries (depending on the conspiracy you subscribe too).

Let me use a few examples from personal experience. In the 1965, there were perhaps a dozen black bears in our state. The bear population has increased gradually , now up to maybe 500. However our state wildlife agency officially said very, very little about bears. They do put out a pamplet now what to do when you meet a bear or one raids your property. But again, all low-key. I really can’t recall any major news releases about bears unless one showed up in the Wal Mart dumpster and such. Some would say the game folks engaged in a conspiracy. Nope, it was a consensus – let the bears do their thing naturally and we will neither encourage or discourage it. The population is reaching a point now where management will become more active.

I think the same thing is happening with mountain lions. They are showing up where they were extirpated a hundred or so years earlier. At first they were all “misidentification” or “escaped pets.” However, photographs combined with DNA and stomach content analysis reveals otherwise in many cases. The evidence could not be denied. Again the approach is low-key and by consensus, not conspiracy. Let nature take its course and neither hinder or help the lions. I believe that in the next 10-15 years, you see see viable breeding populations in areas where they’ve extirpated for decades.

On a humorous note, many years ago, our agency was accused of stocking rattlesnakes on public lands and hiding the fact This conspiracy even got picked up in a few papers. I was even personally confronted about it. I asked the person how we were doing this. He replied that we were “seeding them from helicopters.” I then told him he was right and that we paying people to help us. This drew a reaction from the group. I said “We need someone to put those tiny parachutes on the snakes before we drop them. A snake will still splat and die if you drop it from tree top level.” LOL Once everyone knew how foolish their seeding conspiracy sounded, I said rattlesnakes were already part of the natural environment – why would need to spend money to introduce more? One thing that triggered this was sightings of black helicopters. Yes, and there were black helicopters buzzing public lands! Unmarked (for camouflage) state patrol copters looking for pot fields and meth labs in the woods.

Moving on to Sasquatch, the problem is not a government conspiracy. The problem is the lack of the irrefutable smoking-gun evidence that nobody could deny. Based on a couple of first hand accounts from friends of mine and the fact they have stuck to the same story for many years, I have to hold the door open to the possibility. I know some of the northern and mountain Indian nations take these things very seriously. I don’t know Jeff Meldrum but his credentials make me take pause that he is taking these things seriously. At the very least, there is a phenomena here that is part of our culture and collective folklore and that alone makes the subject of Bigfoot worthy of the study. But the burden of proof rests with Crypto seekers and looking for or fighting a grand “government conspiracy” will only deflect attention from the effort to find the hard proof of Sasquatch.

Not trying to be overly skeptical with my blathering. Just trying to make sure that people apply some critical thinking in these issues.

When I went through, I can’t remember who it was, but while out in the field, one of the guys in our element happened to ask one of our instructors about bigfoot sightings. I remember distinctly that he mentioned one particular sighting by a trainee while out in the field in SERE training. He also talked about a few other sightings. We were a little spooked about it at the time, since we all slept well away from each other in parachute lean-tos. (It averaged about 0 degrees fahrenheit, and there were several feet of snow on the ground during my balmy stay there near Fairchild AFB, Washington. We had to escape, evade and do everything in snowshoes).

In a way I guess Mr. Coyler is right. The U.S. Air Force’s Survival School he attended during his stay in the military decided in 2003 (after his attendance at that particular school) that since the training areas were known to be within in the well documented range of some of these animal, they would actually show depictions of, and include them in the descriptions of the animals on a “survival” map the trainees were given. The map info included a list of animals the trainees might encounter during their training. Since all that info was contained on the map, there does not appear to be a conspiracy as far as the USAF is concerned.

It’s not a conspiracy “thing” with the various federal and state agencies that are well aware of these creatures; its just that they don’t want to deal with them. What the heck can they do except set aside “Wilderness Areas”, and special “walk-in” hunting areas where there are known populations of them, and just hope to heck they stay in them. What are they going to do with them if the public is fully aware of them? No one can control their movements, they can’t catch them to relocate them, and they very well may be relic humans which no federal or state agency has the authority or the means to deal with.

Just think about it.

My point is this- yes, there are conspiracies, lots of them, all around us, all the time. But most are quite limited in scope and power, and (Hopefully) most are exposed, in time.

If a BF conspiracy exists, it must be on a small scale, possibly several small, bureaucratic cabals operating independent and unknowingly of each other, with a good deal of fortuitous happenstance added into the mix. To be anything else would require much more time and effort than it would be worth to anybody, and that’s what it almost always boils down to- money.

I believe if there is any sort of cover-up going on, it’s not concerted; it’s at the local level as a result of Joe Bureaucrat keeping his mouth shut and his head in the sand.

Also, I will also talk a little about how to many people, the Endangered Species Act and the Northern Spotted Owl are synonymous with lost jobs, lost income and lost opportunities.

But remember, the Endangered Species Act pitted the federal government against the timber industry in the case of the Northern Spotted Owl.

Would not the same thing happen if the sasquatch were to be officially discovered tomorrow? The government would, hopefully, declare it to be an endangered species. (The Endangered Species Act is designed to restrict use of land where endangered species reside). At that point, perhaps millions of acres of land would suddenly be unavailable to logging. This is exactly what happened with the Northern Spotted Owl.

Now with that point, I’ve only established that some may actually have the motive to see that bigfoot remains undiscovered. However, as my piece tomorrow will say, I doubt seriously that any group has the ability to suppress such a discovery in an organized concerted manner.