What do you think will really happen if a bf body is brought in? Will it satisfy science? Will new laws be passed to protect the bf? Will the timber companies go bankrupt. Will the general public accept there is more than just a few bf ? I, personally, have a lot of fear for the bf population when one is brought in. Would like to hear your thoughts.
Peg

Hi Peg.
I am afraid that a lot will depend on how the information (body) is produced. If its kept on ice and displayed at carnivals I don't think it will make any difference. If its in someones basement and they insist on 1 millon $$$ per peek nothing will happen.
If BF exists and is captured dead or alive then it must be introduced to the general public by an acknowledged scientific organization or museum.
Oh, and forget the conspiracy theorists. Once found and acknowledged it will not disappear. I do share the belief that the remaining BF population will be in serious trouble.
Personally I think new clear film footage will also serve to bring BF to the serious attention of science.
J.

I think about this sometimes too.....

I know one thing! Alot of people will stop camping!

I think if a body is ever brought to the attention of science it will be very hard for the general public to accept. This will be huge. HUGE. Lots of questions, lots of panicky people and years of debate and study. It'll freak everyone out bigtime. Science will not accept it for years.....its just too BIZARRE!

I think your right MsFit.

In My Humble Opinion *ahem* i think that if/when a body is produced, IF science doesnt declare it a single abnormal being, with no others to reproduce, then people will freak out. The general public may even insist the government round up all these big dangerous hairy beings and lock them up ! That would cost an enormous sum of tax dollars. Not to mention, the lost revenue to the States, from things ranging from taxes, (sales tax, gasoline) , revenue generated from the outdoor industy , camping, canoeing, rafting, fishing, hunting, guide services, hiking, all would suffer to an extent, not to mention all the support industies, motels, food and supply stores, restaurants, campgrounds. But ammo sales would go thru the roof !!! Sadly, thats what i think will happen for awhile, until people settle down, and learn that they are NOT in any danger from the Sasquatches.

I dont think they are endangered, so i dont think the timber industry would suffer for long. The american demand for wood products is too great, we are eating our forests by the thousand-acre minutes.

But thats just me, i'm warped and see conspirosy behind every open political oral orafice (they DO lie, dont tell me they dont LOL )

What will happen if one is killed in Okla.? Will there have to be one killed in tx. so they can say they have bf too? Will all the bubbas come out of the woodwork and want to kill them a bigfeets. Will there be a black market for a bigfoot ashtray like they did the gorilla?
Peg

I don't think camping will go down I think it will rise or stay the same because while some people will be scared some will want to try to go see them. There will be thrill seekers and we will all go into business as guides like they do in Africa with safaris. I think that the likes of Jon Larson, Jeff Meldrum, E.C. Wool, etc etc. will be appearing on Fox news and the Today show telling about how they have not been proven to attack but just to try to chase you off. And so people will get a crash course on bigfoot through news media. I think they will be instantly protected.

Peg I like your point,I think it would be very bad for those poor ole bigfeets,everyone would go trigger happy,it couldnt be good for bigfoot.My grandmother would say their not being found for a reason,and maybe thats it. tennessee hills

I've thought about this quite a bit. It's really hard to say how proven existence of these critters will be accepted. I can see most of the scenarios which have already been stated happening. But it's the scenarios I can't see that bother me.

Initially fear, I think, then later, amazement on the part of the general public. Then hordes of new BF enthusiasts searching (hunting?) for them.

Government reactions (assuming they don't swoop down in their black helicopters)? Business reaction? Who can say? But based on our past history where wildlife species are concerned, I'm not really optimistic. Especially if it turns out that the critters live closer to us than we ever imagined.



And I tend to agree with Jan, much as the thought troubles me. Something to be said for considering the consequences of our own actions.

If a body is brought in....
Science will not declare it a freak...it will be to different from anything else to be a freak.
There will be a media circus for some time.. a month or so.
It will immediatly be declared endangered...but, with little or no effect on economic or environmental status, due to a lack of population information or habitat/current distribution info. It will be accepted as being "out there", but like such scattered and widespread formerly endangered species such as eagles, only a very few, identified core areas MIGHT be set aside.
Some people will become will get rich(speaking engagements), some will get nothing, even more fighting between the major groups, as they compete for precious "expert opinion" tv time.......BFRO will come out on top
It will prove to be both less, and more, amazing in ways then we imagine.
It will prove to be very intelligent, but, in another way then we are. More dolphin like, in that tool use will not prove to be a major part of it's lifestyle.
Freaks like EB will fall by the wayside...MG, on the other hand, will milk the book for all she's worth, and will manage a bit of fleeting fame via the tabloit route.
Loren Coleman will write a book.
Several undisclosed, long term research and observation endeavors will surface.
The patterson film will prove to be authentic.
After the initial shock, and excitement dies down, long term studies will eventualy disclose that the population is shrinking slowy due to encroachment and habitat destruction. Population at time of "discovery" will be estimated in the low thousands over all of north america. Lots of government and Educational establishemts will set up observational studies...which will prove to be extraordinarily difficult...
Both Russia and China will announce similar discoveries...regardless of proof.
Bat boy will marry sasquatch's daubter, you saw it here first.

Probably not much ! - there will be a little excitement in the field of anthropology, but there will not be much re-writing of text books - they wont be embarrassed.

Friends of the Earth will start a new campaign to save the forests, and will receive a donation from me.

the US government (whichever flavour of party is in power at the time) will do nothing.

There will be all sorts of magazine and TV crews doing documentaries on the subject, but that will die down after a year or two.

One of the Sasquatch will set up a website claiming that Erik Beckjord is made out of titanium and will return to the mothership soon.

I think that people will take it as they do bears and cougars. They know they are out there but they will take it as if they know they are ok unless they bother them in some way. As far as them taking cattle and live stock that might change. It might become necessary to have some laws to protect your cattle and chickens or something like that. I think that is about all that it will cause as far as them being proven. They might even have to regulate a law to protect them from being hunted.

I wonder how many BF encounters will be reported after it has been discovered and declared endangered?
How many people will make sure that no USG official comes around taking a BF census by simply neglecting to report a sighting?

I am presently a member of a private association that owns 1,000's of acres of land (used for outdoor recreational purposes by it's members) in Norhern Michigan. I would think twice about reporting a sighting on our property if it ran the risk of bringing more Idiot Bureaucracy to our membership.

You can be sure many owners of private property simply do not want publicity that will draw unwanted intrusion.

My two cents,
Ken

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Peg (not that that's necessarily bad LOL)....but BF is going to have a big bulls eye painted on it. We can pass all the laws we want, it is not going to stop a more organized poaching effort to bag more of them (look at how many grizzlies and black bears have already been poached in Alberta and B.C. this year despite increases in fines, etc).

Frankly, sometimes I am not even sure I would turn over proof of BF's existence to the authorities even if I came across it. Fortunately, the odds are that I will never have to make that decision.

Bottom line, I simply do not trust the human race as a whole to do the right thing (now...if we could declare open season on poachers, then even I would be pro-kill)..

James

This is pretty much how I feel. If I had proof that no one could argue with, I'm not sure I would make it known, it would mean a lot of soul-searching.

I'd like to see Sasquatch accepted by science and the public alike but I think that would require a significant period of time. After the initial period of surprise and succumbing to unwarranted hysteria, I fear public reaction would lapse into apathy, turning instead to fixate on the next media frenzy de jour.

Naturally the government would step up to do something on a subject it is ill-prepared to deal with - it won't be able to resist. Then will come the inevitable skirmishing between environmentalists and timber interests. Regulations left and right, law suits, I can see it now. And this isn't counting the idiots who will rush out to put one in their crosshairs, not for the very legitamate aim of proving something to science, just so they can bag a Bigfoot (although the Sas will have something to say about that for sure).

Maybe I'd be wrong, perhaps the discovery of an intelligent, primate on our doorstep would lead to acceptance of Sasquatch with more widespread regard than the discovery of a new fish or bird species. We can only hope society as a whole will sense the humanity numerous witnesses, including many hunters, have reported in their encounters and embrace the existence of these creatures. We can only hope.

I don't think too much will change in the long run. There is only one way to slow down logging and that is for everyone to use less wood. But that won't happen. When one is brought in then all that can prove at that moment is that Bigfoot exists and not how many there are in the wild. (Unless bigfoot really do speak and are wwilling to tell us.

I don't think that real serious hunters will be that interested in a Bigfoot. I also don't think that non-serious hunters (if you know what I mean.) will have enough patience or skill to ever catch one.

Hopefully the government will put the one I am sure they have stuck somewhere in the Smithsonian on display.

But I do think that after one is collected somehow that other Sasquatches, in the area will become more elusive.