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human
I would not describe most of those as good or likely reasons for a cover up
The most plausible one is the loss of revenue by shutting down logging operations but even that one is a little sensationalist. If such an animal did become known to science then there ain't no way the government would allow logging to stop. At worst there would be a protection zone/ conservation area established and logging would continue.

>>national parks and forests shut down
Not likely. These things are so rare that it would make no sense. Even if they're dangerous there are a lot of dangerous animals living in the woods and national parks aren't getting shut down.

>>massive rise of illegal hunting & tourism
Um maybe? But much larger rise in LEGAL tourism and hunting generating more revenue so this is kind of a point against.

>flood of amateurs into the wilderness, sharp rise in Search & Rescue expenses
>re-examination of missing persons cases, storm of FOIA requests
>Park Services, Scheriff Departments, Local governments under scrutiny

A sharp enough rise to keep spending all this time and energy keeping proof of bigfoot a hidden? Doubt it. And why would it cause the re-examination of missing person cases? If a person disappeared then maybe maybe a bigfoot got them, maybe a bear got them, maybe they fell in a hole. Disappeared is disappeared.

>>loss of trust in Federal Government

lol come on...

>>re-evaluation of human origin theories
>re-evaluation of human definition

Why? Finding another extant hominid would not significantly alter what we know about human evolution and if it did...so what? As for having to re-evaluate the definition of human...why? I mean maybe if they had human intelligence but chimps and dolphins have near human intelligence and that hasn't caused us to evaluate them as people.


tl;dr this still sounds like reaching when we take into account how much effort it would take over the course of decades to keep this covered up.
gpt
>tl;dr this still sounds like reaching when we take into account how much effort it would take over the course of decades to keep this covered up.
Also note that some of it is preventing problems that would be caused by stopping the cover-up. If you never start the cover up, those issues disappear, so they are not a reason to START the cover-up.
Other points are deakling with modern conditions that did not exist when the coverup would have to have started. I guess the original conspirators knew that some day logging in Alaska would be a big thing, and there would be a park service, and that tourists would someday swarm into national parks where bogfoot sould kidnap them Because Reasons and that might upset people if they knew, so best start a cover-up NOW to be ready.
human

lol good point. It's good to be proactive when starting a coverup.