Yes, chasing a mythical creature is a great use of $200,000!

Bigfoot people make me laugh. Spending that kind of money for something like this is amazing.

Hey ,come on guys I seen this guy in a TV commercial for jerky during the super bowl. Really if he exists he is probably a vegan since there is no evidence it has ever killed anything. Maybe if they catch it we can find dna evidence as to why vegans don't eat tasty animals!

Still can't believe people think Bigfoot exists. Articles like this probably make the hoaxers laugh hysterically.

What a waste of resources. I hope only private money(as stated) is spent on this foolishness, all over the world are found fossil records of prehistoric animals millions of years old, but not one legit artifact from a Bigfoot....common sense just ain't that common!

I've always wondered why that one stupid, unlucky Bigfoot hasn't yet been hit by a car.

Sucker born every minute. The sucker in this case is the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, who, through some misguided morons in Congress, have had to fund this nonsense. If Sasquatch were real, there would be BONES and PELTS all over the place, for the natives prior to Spain, would have collected them as trophies, hung them to dry, made totems for them - much like their "sha-men" collected "pelts" and every egg they could find of the California Condor, and traded them throughout North America as "talismen" - of which there are many in museums around the world, including some in Russia and other former soviet areas. There WOULD likelier than not be MANY such pelts. This is another "golden fleece award" winner.

So where did the $200,000 come from? How much is the professor getting for the "study"?

Bigfoot is great folklore, and there are many traditions worldwide which speak of a similar creature? Was it ever real? Who knows? Does Bigfoot exist today? I doubt it (surely someone would have hit one with a car or the like by now). But it's fun to speculate, and those who investigate at least keep the stories going.

Yes, we know there's no Loch Ness Monster and no Ogopogo and no dinosaur hiding away in the jungle somewhere and most likely no Abominable Snowman. And chances are that the government doesn't have any alien bodies hidden away in secret freezers somewhere. But wouldn't it be a smaller world without the stories? And where would we be if we completely stopped asking "what if....?" even if not entirely seriously at times.

There is DNA evidence of bigfoot. I've read of several cases where dna tests of hair and other biological materials that have come back as being primate but inconclusive meaning the specimen cannot be identified as any known primate we have data on.

That's the result you'd expect for a creature that's described as bigfoot are usually described as being like.

"These woods are squatchy as hell." -Professional Bigfoot Hunter

I hope something good comes out of this monumental waste of time and money. Maybe tweaking a system to find lost hunters and children. The only saving grace it wasn't tax dollars.

Yes bigfoot was and is still real. thousands of years ago there was an ape like man called gigantopithicus they have found a skull and other bones. so he still exists just look it up with that many sightings how could hosting or misidentification account for it all

Bill, you nailed it. Either the American Tax Payer gave a grant to some Hack Professor or the Students or the people of the State will pay for the program, through increased fees, tuition, taxes, etc....
These fools don't care where or who provided the cash for their BS, just so long as they can draw 6 figures for a few years and BS their way through life. All I know is the person or group that gave him this cash in this economy ought to be fired....but they won't.
Two people are never fired, no matter how foolish or incompetent...tenured professors and government hacks.

I grew up north of Salina Kansas hunting Pheasants and Quail and fishing for Bass. I lived outside and never saw anything strange. I didn't see a Turkey or Bald Eagle and now they are abundant there. I have lived in Colorado now for 37 years camping, hunting and fishing way more than most. Folks, the Sasquatch is real. The signs in the forest tell me that. The eat Elk and Deer and hunt at night. All the Native Americans have names for them from long before white men got here. I doubt that was a mass hallucination. Also, we just found 100,000 lowland Gorillas in the Congo. We don't miss much do we. What scares me is those hunting in the same woods as me and they don't know whats in them, although I will say the Sasquatches hide themselves well for self preservation. They are one with their environment. Sadly, most of us have lost that skill. Most have not seen a mountain lion either in Kansas either or Colorado for that matter. My uncle has one on his land as we speak. The division of wildlife in Kansas denied that for years until a picture in the Wichita Eagle Beacon showed 5 at once. Pay attention to what your environment tells you and you will find the truth and stop listening to those behind computers and desks. You will find me in the woods, I leave tommorrow. Mike Johnson-Co founder-Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies