During the summer of 2000 members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization deliberately constructed a fruit-baited “mud trap”, with the intent of collecting tracks; instead the researchers have claimed to have recovered a partial body impression of a “skookum” (sasquatch in the Chinook language) as it laid in the mud to eat. Collected was the impression of the animal’s hindquarters, ankles, and left arm, in addition to hair impressions. Critics, including several members of BFRO, stated what was recovered was the impression of an elk. | During the summer of 2000 members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization deliberately constructed a fruit-baited “mud trap”, with the intent of collecting tracks; instead the researchers have claimed to have recovered a partial body impression of a “skookum” (sasquatch in the Chinook language) as it laid in the mud to eat. Collected was the impression of the animal’s hindquarters, ankles, and left arm, in addition to hair impressions. Critics, including several members of BFRO, stated what was recovered was the impression of an elk. |