"Flashback:  One year ago, Bigfoot was still all the rage in the media.  On
July 7th, the newspapers were talking about the thoughts of Dr. Meldrum and Cliff Crook:"     Sent to me by Loren Coleman

This was right on the heels of Dr. Matthew Johnson's Infamous sighting at the Oregon Caves July 1st.   Excitement was intense.

Christine/Sasquatch Watch
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Associated Press

7 July 2000

Well, is it Bigfoot or isn't it?

Professor says no, but tracker sets off to northwest corner
Associated Press

PORT ANGELES -- Two researchers looking into reports of curious tracks on
the Lower Hoh Indian Reservation have come to different conclusions about
whether they might have been caused by Bigfoot.

Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, assistant professor of anatomy and biology at Idaho
State University, concluded there was not enough factual evidence to
continue an investigation. The other, self-proclaimed Bigfoot tracker Cliff
Crook, believes the evidence is so great he is headed back to gather more
data.

Crook, who was on the scene a day before Meldrum, said he found many clues
leading him to believe the tracks were created by a Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, a
large, hairy creature that has been reported around the world but is most
closely identified with the Pacific Northwest.

"I went expecting to find bear tracks, but on June 30, my initial
investigation led me to believe this was not a bear or a human prankster.
This was for sure a Bigfoot," Crook told the Peninsula Daily News.

On June 30, he added one more track from the Lower Hoh Reservation, along
the coast in the extreme northwest section of the state.

"This year, we already have had 19 reports from the Pacific Northwest alone.
Of those we have thoroughly investigated nine of them and learned a lot,"
Crook said.

Crook estimates the animal on the Hoh Indian Reservation stands about 8
feet, with feet 17 inches long and 7 inches wide. With the imprint that was
left in the ground, he estimates its weight to be about 600 pounds.

Crook, 59, is a co-editor of the journal Bigfoot Trails. He's a Bigfoot
tracker, a Sasquatch detective, an assembler of some 400 plaster footprints.
He and his wife, Carol, teamed as technical advisers for the Bigfoot film,
"Harry and the Hendersons."

Meldrum, who has studied the Bigfoot phenomenon for four years, sent a
researcher out to investigate the area where Gene Sampson and Steven Penn
first reported seeing tracks. Meldrum's crew did a thorough search of the
land, looking for any physical signs of Bigfoot such as hair and footprints.

"Our general take was that there was something going on on their properties,
but it was not attributable to research of Bigfoot we have seen in the
past," Meldrum said.

Crook is setting up a base camp outside of the Hoh reservation in hopes of gathering more information.

"I have been in this for 44 years, longer than anyone else, and I think that
this is one of the most interesting discoveries. It involves hundreds of
footprints and trails," Crook said.
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Found in many sources, e.g.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/bigfoot000706.html

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/00/7/7/12759493.HTM



"Whatever the footprints found in the snowfields of the Himalayas or on the dirt roads of Northern California turn out to be, they are not the footprints of modern man, Homo sapiens." John Napier (1972)

This item has already taken place.  It has been left here for informational purposes only.  The Art Bell show has not proven to be a credible source of information, however, it would be easy to check the facts by tracking down Mr. Morgan