Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher. He weighed in on some of the best-known footprint and cast evidence in the archive. He looked at the 1951 Menlung Glacier yeti prints photographed by Shipton and Ward and saw an enlarged second toe consistent with macrodactyly. On the 1958 Bluff Creek tracks found by Jerry Crew, he argued that the wooden feet revealed by the Ray Wallace family do not match Crew's casts. In 2000 he directed the final cleaning of the Skookum Cast, which revealed impressions of hair. He spoke of an 8 to 9 foot tall humanoid creature.
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Pro earlyResearcher quoted in Arizona Highways, attributes lack of evidence to a small population
Idaho State University researcher who says the wooden feet do not match Crew's casts
Idaho State University anthropologist who re-read the deformity as metatarsus adductus or skewfoot
Pro earlyIdaho State University anthropologist who discussed and reinterpreted the prints
Pro earlyCo-author of the 2021 paper Research on Wildmen in Vietnam
Idaho State University anthropologist who studied the Freeman casts
Pro earlyCritic of Taylor's bear explanation
Pro earlyPanelist at the 2023 Squatch Con Idaho premiere
Pro earlyAnthropologist who assessed the habitat for MonsterQuest
Idaho State University researcher who directed the final cleaning of the cast
Pro earlyAnatomy professor, Idaho State University, who said the photos were too poor to analyse
Pro earlyAnatomist who reportedly examined a sample
Pro earlyIdaho State University anthropologist; visited the cave, called it a staged event and refused to sign the statement