]I read about two sightings of BF on Highway 101 near Orick during the late summer early fall of this year. Speculation was that fires up in Oregon could have displaced many animals including BF's and they moved down to Cali.

This makes me wonder about the fires in Southern Cali...will we see anything as
a result? Fires detroy habitat and food sources. This has to have an effect.

Also I found a guy who did some very interesting research on Bigfoot sightings and habitat, specifically vegetation patterns in sighting areas. I found it validating something that I have always noticed that BF tend to stick near areas that are heavily vegetated and there is easy access to water....and waterways. I have read theories that BF use waterways as means of travel?

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Matrix/4867/us.html

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2002/08/...dlife.0822.html

The creeks... He always follows the creeks...

This past summer/fall there was a nasty wildfire near Kelowna, BC. There was a report from one of the fire crews. They said "something" in the woods was screaming at them while they were digging a firebreak, then later on, the same "something" charged the fireline, swerved around left of them and ran off into the trees, from their reports it sounded " pretty big and and moved like lightening", they also said that they could hear raspy breathing as it ran by.

My theory is that the firefighters had blocked this creature's line of escape, and that it was screaming at them so that they would leave. But when that didn't work, it ran straight by them, because it's fear of the fire was greater than it's fear of the men.

Sosha, from John Green's, What Is The Sasquatch?

Sasquatches make considerable use of water. I have six reports of tracks ending in bodies of deep water, five reports of Sasquatches swimming, and a dozen of them standing or walking in bodies of water. In one survey I did of 289 track reports, eighty-three were beside water. Of twenty-eight reports located near towns in four states east of the continental divide, seventy-one per cent of the towns were right beside a stream or lake large enough to be shown on an ordinary road map. A sample consisting of all the towns in two counties chosen at random in each of those states indicated that on the average only fifty-one per cent of towns were beside water.

If you want to check out the entire writeup, here's the link:

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/biology/whatis.htm