n March of 2010 NABS was contacted by a fellow researcher and notified that the State of Washington has a law that requires public disclosure of documents held by the state, most states don’t have such a law. The Washington law mimics the Freedom of Information Act that governs U.S. government documents. The researcher asked if NABS would file a FOIA request against the Washington Department of Fish and Game for documents related to bigfoot, sasquatch and wild man. NABS did file the request.
On April 12 NABS received their first response from Washington. We were notified in the first letter that there may be additional documents held by the enforcement branch and they were attempting to retrieve those. The following list and summary represents what we retrieved from Washington Fish and Game.
1. Letter to NABS from Washington Fish and Game Dated 4/12/10 and a second letter dated 4/23/10.
2. Email from Skip Frombach to Dr. Briggs Hall explaining a possible bigfoot research site.
3. Email sent to Skip Frombach from Mike Day advising him that no research funds were available.
4. Email advising that the employees in the Department of Fish and Game have no reported sightings of bigfoot, dated 4/14/08.
5. Letter from Robert Campos to the Washington State Governor asking for the establishment of a task force to conduct an expedition.
6. The front page of “The Bigfoot Casebook” with an attached map of California presumably outlining sightings and tracks. It's unclear why this was in the packet.
7. Letter to George Tsukamoto from Jeff Meldrum, dated 1/16/01 on Idaho State Letterhead. He isn’t happy with the information he was provided by the department, a Campos document. He asks for more in depth information on how their department handles sightings, etc. NABS spoke to the Fish and Game and found that George Tsukamoto has since retired and they do not possess the letter that he sent to Mr. Meldrum. Mr. Meldrum then sent the department a copy of his poster a theories associated with the Midtarsal break and his report “The Science of Sasquatch” by Meldrum and Greenwell.
8. Email from enforcement agent Carl Klein stating that he has received a few calls regarding bigfoot but does not have any records.
9. Email from enforcement agent Troy McCormick stating that we should contact the Lummi Tribe and he describes behavior that has been explained to him.
