Abominable Open Season
May 27, 1960, Oakland
Oakland , Calif. , USA
Is an "Abominable Snowman" fair game in
“We'll have to cross that bridge when somebody finds one, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk decided yesterday.
Mosk and his aides have been delving into the subject since receiving a query from J. M. Etchart of Oroville.
"If I am able to get one of these animals," he asked, "will I be able to keep him or will it be taken away?”
Mosk's task was made more difficult because whoever composed the Fish and Game regulations lacked the foresight to make a provision for any kind of snowmen, let alone abominable ones.
Nor do the regulations have anything to say about the snow man's aliases — such as "Bigfoot" in the
Humboldt mountain area, "Sasquatch" in
"You'll have to catch him first," Mosk wrote to Etchart, ''then we can see what section of the code he comes under."
If it was any consolation, Mosk added, Etchart can catch all of the moles, opossums, rats, mice, gophers, muskrats, beavers, coyotes, weasels, skunks, cougars, and bobcats that he stumbles on while looking for the snow man.
The Fish and Game people won't give it a thought.
