Bigfoot fan Peter Wiemer totally understands why the state Department of
Environmental Conservation claims it doesn’t believe in Bigfoot.“Obviously the DEC wants to play it safe,” he said Wednesday, a day after YNN’s Nick Reisman reported on a letter sent to Wiemer by DEC’s Chief Wildlife Biologist Gordon R. Batcheller. “They don’t want to get ridiculed by their own people or by politicians.”
Wiemer is the organizer of the Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo (“It’s the only Bigfoot convention in New York State”), which will hold its second annual gathering in April.
“This mythical animal does not exist in nature or otherwise,” Batcheller wrote in his Nov. 6 letter to Wiemer, who had asked DEC to provide endangered species protection to the creature.
“I understand … that some well organized hoaxes or pranks have occurred leading some people to believe that such an animal does live,” the biologist wrote in the letter, sent at the behest of DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. “However, the simple truth of the matter is that there is no such animal anywhere in the World. I am sorry to disappoint you.”
Batcheller ends his letter on a positive note, pointing out the “great richness of naturally occurring wildlife” in New York, and the DEC’s work to manage it properly, “including highly regulated hunting and trapping opportunities.”
“It’s all good mambo,” Wiemer said Wednesday in a phone interview, referring to the media attention that had resulted from the agency’s determination.
Bigfoot sightings have occurred in almost every heavily wooded region of the nation, from the Pacific Northwest to Florida.
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