North American Ape Project
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The North American Ape Project (NAAP) is a grant-funded, multi-year sasquatch research initiative founded about 2001 and directed by Dr.Jeff Meldrum, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University (ISU). The NAAP has received funding from Dr.Richard Stepp/Fidelity Investments and the Mayfield Foundation.
The Acknowledgments section of Meldrum's book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2006), lists participating members of the North American Ape Project as Ron Brown, LeRoy Fish, Derek Randles, John Pickering, Rick Noll, Owen Caddy, Brian Smith, John Mionczynski, and Julie Davis.
The largest single award in support of the NAAP, a grant of $130,000, was submitted to the university from the Mayfield Foundation in 2008. According to an ISU announcement at the time, "The North American Ape Project (NAAP) seeks to detect and collect evidence through support from the Mayfield Foundation. This will be undertaken primarily by means of hair snags monitored by camera traps. In addition, fieldworkers will record vocalizations, document tracks and sample associated scat. Habitats will be analyzed for availability and distribution of food resources."
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2001 - North American Ape Project (NAAP) proposed a research permit for 2002 on the Olympic National Forest "to study the movement of Sasquatch".
2004- Jeff Meldrum received a $23,000 grant from Fidelity Investments (with a University Research Committee match) for the project, "Field Investigation of Sasquatch in Southern Colorado".
2005 - Jeff Meldrum received a $12,000 grant from Fidelity Investments and $5,000 in matching funds and equipment from Whitewolf Productions and other sponsors for the project, "Sasquatch in the North Cascades" featuring collaborative fieldwork with WY wildlife biologist John Mionczynski.
2005 - Jeff Meldrum and members of the "North American Ape Project 2005" field research team were featured in the History Channel documentary entitled, "Gigantopithecus: The Real King Kong".
2006 - Jeff Meldrum received an $11,900 award from Dr. Richard Stepp/Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund for the project, "Sasquatch in the Central Rockies".
2007 - Jeff Meldrum received an award of $7,125 from Fidelity Investment (Richard Stepp) for the project, "North American Ape Project (NAAP) 2007: Sasquatch in the Central Rockies and the Colorado Plateau".
2007 - Jeff Meldrum gave a presentation on the NAAP to personnel from the U.S. Forest Service and Wyoming Game & Fish.
2007 - NAAP co-sponsored an address at Idaho State University by author Peter Matthiessen entitled "A Naturalist's Impressions of the Wildman".
2008 - Jeff Meldrum received a $130,000 grant from the Mayfield Foundation in support of the project, "North American Ape Project (NAAP): 2008".
2009 - Jeff Meldrum received a $4,000 award from Dr. Richard Stepp via Fidelity Investments for "continuing fieldwork under the North American Ape Project".
2009 - NAAP placed an ad, "Seen Sasquatch?", in the Fall course catalog of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) headquartered in Lander, WY.
2010 - Jeff Meldrum received a $5,000 grant from Fidelity Investments (Stepp) for the project, "Further Documentation of the Ichnotaxon Antrhopoidipes ameriborealis.
