Michael Rugg and Paula Yarr are co-founders of the Bigfoot Discovery Project (BDP). The BDP accepts the subject of the Patterson/Gimlin Film as the type specimen for the Pacific Coast Bigfoot or Sasquatch and seeks to create a dialogue about the implications of the impending “discovery of Bigfoot” by conventional Western science. The Museum opened in June of 2006 with the purpose of educating the public about the probability of Bigfoot and the current thoughts as to its habits and its place in the natural world.