For the second year in a row, a county in Washington state has declared itself a refuge for Sasquatch after being lobbied by a class of fifth graders. The brainchild of teacher Andrea Andrews of the Lincoln Elementary School in the city of Holquiam, the unique civics lesson saw her students research the famed cryptid and then pen a letter to a local government body in which they argue that the creature needs to be "recognized and protected." In 2022, her class convinced the Grays Harbor County Board of Commissioners to unanimously pass a resolution wherein the county was decreed to be just such a Sasquatch "refuge area." Based on that success, Andrews brought the lesson back this year in the hopes of extending their efforts.
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