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Bigfoot hunting season plan is starting to work its way through state legislature in Oklahoma
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
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Get ready it’s almost Bigfoot hunting season!
In Oklahoma, that is. And if a long-shot bill makes it through that state’s legislature and onto the governor’s desk.
Oklahoma Rep. Justin Humphrey put forward House Bill 1648 this week, reports Oklahoma City-based KOCO News-5. The proposed legislation would lead to rules and fees for pursuing the ape-like creatures with harsh intent.
Humphrey, a Republican from Oklahoma’s District 19, admits his effort is a ploy to generate attention and thus tourism for his neck of the woods. ABC-7 Chicago reports that theories and beliefs about an Oklahoma Bigfoot “has been big business for Humphrey’s district, which includes Broken Bow, a town of approximately 4,100 nestled near the heavily forested Kiamichi Mountains.”
Humphrey said his intent is to bring more tourism to the state. Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state, he said in a statement.
Officials with agency that would be tasked with establishing the season were not so sure about the proposal. We use science-driven research, and we don t recognize Bigfoot in the state of Oklahoma, Micah Holmes of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation told KOCO-TV.
Bigfoot or sasquatch is an ape-like creature covered in hair that walks on two legs, though most claims of its existence have turned out to be hoaxes. It has been spotted by people for hundreds of years, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, a group of scientists that looks into reported sightings.