There is news of a considered and thoughtful educational effort to do “black squirrel” research. Due to a growing population on Long Island, New York, a new “Black Squirrel Headquarters” has sprung up in the Lake Grove neighborhood.

Noting the black squirrels have also “colonized suburban Washington D.C.; Reedsburg, Wis., and Princeton, N.J.,” Bill Roe’s organization gave out a research award.

They just announced a “$3,000 grant to Michele Miller and April Mindlin, fifth-grade teachers at the Eugene Auer Memorial Elementary School in Lake Grove, whose students are combining scientific methods and high-tech gadgets to study the area’s black squirrel population.”

Good for Mr. Roe, but it does point up a great gap in funding for unusual natural history research, doesn’t it?

Read more here.

Not surprisingly, therefore, Cryptomundians must ponder the fact that more research money has been given to study melanistic squirrels than has been granted to research Bigfoot, to date, in 2008.

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What is it going to take to advance cryptid research? Money, of course!

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