Exploring Bigfoot Lore with Lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle

In a recent video from the YouTube channel Nomar Slevik, Robert Michael Pyle, a man of many talents and pursuits, is discussed. Pyle is an author, naturalist, professor, poet, and a proponent of cryptozoology. The video delves into his life and adventures, including his time in the forests of the Dark Divide where he contemplated love, butterflies, and even Sasquatch. Pyle, born in Denver, Colorado in 1947, has had a lifelong passion for nature and conservation. He attended local public schools and received his first grant in high school for wood nymph studies. This early exposure to the field would significantly influence his future studies. He earned a bachelor's in nature perception and protection in 1969 and a master's in nature interpretation in 1973, both from the University of Washington. Pyle's work in butterfly conservation has been groundbreaking. He founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1971, an organization that now has a staff of over 50 people and is the largest pollinator protection team in the world. His published books, such as "Watching Washington Butterflies" and "Handbook for Butterfly Watchers," were the first American books to promote butterfly watching and collecting. The video also touches on Pyle's time in the forests of the Dark Divide, where he contemplated love, butterflies, and Sasquatch. The Dark Divide is a 76,000-acre area in Western Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest, known for its Bigfoot sightings. Pyle's Trek through the Divide formed the basis for the film "The Dark Divide," which was released in 2020. In a 2017 interview, Pyle gave his thoughts on why people want to believe in Bigfoot. He said, "we all seem to need Giants in our lives...one of the major points and purposes of the book is to speak for wildness...if we manage to save a significant portion of the animals' presumed habitat, we have saved one of the greatest green Treasures on Earth." As a Bigfoot believer and a curator for Squatchable, I encourage our readers to watch the video and form their own opinions on Pyle's thoughts and experiences. The video is a fascinating look into the life and adventures of a man who has dedicated his life to the study and conservation of nature.