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Where is the difference? We have hoaxers producing fake bigfoot which leave no real bigfoot in the wake of the hoax and we have said to be genuine bigfoot encounters that leave behind the same wake of no real bigfoot. The bottom line is no real bigfoot in the equation after the hoax has been outed and after the said to be genuine reportage has been made. If there is such a thing as a government shill, Crow, on this forum, I am convinced that you are not one. I perceive the government to be more competent.

I tend to believe that a clan/family will have a yet-to-be determined territorial radius - it could be a five mile radius, it could be a fifteen mile radius - determined by available water, food, terrain, cover, and shelter. I can certainly see them migrating to higher or lower elevations if all other needs are met, but for one of these things to go for a ten-mile hunting walkabout with the considerable gait they have would be - nothing. If there is sufficient cover, shelter, food, water, and reasonably isolated terrain, it would be counter-intuitive to abandon their territory just for the sake of migrating. Migration into unfamiliar territories has it's own problems - possibly encroaching on another clan's territory, and possibly not finding suitable food, shelter, water, concealment, and ideal terrain. In addition, migrating for the sake of just moving would be quite a calorie expenditure - that may not pay off. However, if within their own territorial home they have multiple shelters, multiple sources of water, plenty of game and suitable vegetation, comfortable terrain and concealment, it's much easier to stock the shelves of their shelter with multiple food sources for winters that are sure to come. When the youngsters reach a certain age, they'll be wanting their own mates - and that would be a very strong motivator to migrate outside their familiar territory. And after finding a mate, they'd probably wish to establish their own home territory. This would maybe push them into currently "unoccupied" areas where other BF would have established themselves previously. Thanks to the fact that there are very few small farmers anymore due to the economics, the fewer farmers plant thousand of acres of varying foods in significant portions of the nation, and those huge tracts of corn for example, can provide a lot of calories that don't require much hunting. In the fall, orchards provide owners, deer, and BF's with yet another source of large amounts of calories - and even provide sufficient excess that can be stored in some of their multiple "shelters." I just think they're aware of things around them, they know what's available when, they adapt their movements to maximize their own benefit, and have the foresight to store foods for winter, and what kinds of foods will actually "store." Organisms are generally very efficient. Maximum benefit with minimum risk, minimum effort. I don't see these things being any different. Migration for the sake of migration is not efficient.

BTW - Correct. Put better than I would have. Bigfoot are not plants, not sedentary. They seem to migrate. Assuming they can only appear in places they can live for long periods is utter foolishness. Seeing a bigfoot in a particular location does not make it "habitat", it merely means it is, at least at the moment, travel corridor or better. So far as them living everywhere, no. So far as them potentially appearing almost everywhere and reports from almost everywhere being legitimate, seems much more likely, at least to me as someone with somewhat of a biology background. The question, then, becomes how far do they comfortably travel? ... because that says something about how far from "habitat" their travels / migrations might take them. Folks can yuck it up about Finding Bigfoot if they wish but I haven't seen them follow up on reports yet that didn't look like at least potential travel corridors if not seasonal habitat. MIB

Firstly, in order for such a creature to be proven, there needs to be concerted effort and drive by those in position to grant "proven status" to seek out the creatures. Alas, the "discovery" of this organism will prove more than just a little troublesome for a good number of people, businesses, industries, agencies, governments and religious institutions, so the push for official description and documentation is thwarted by, potentially, a considerable number of various elements. Heck, maybe the aliens really don't want us messing with their terrestrial agents, so they prevent serious inquiry by authoritative figures or groups. If our society chose to allocate resources, in a motivated, coordinated, multi-faceted study integrating the many disciplines that would, no doubt, be interested and could potentially proffer pathways of investigation previously not considered nor conceived, without the interference or impediments imposed by those seeking to keep these critters a myth, then progess would be seen. Good luck on that one... Not conspiracy theory, just simple observable fact... Within the F&B paradigm, their presence in varied and various habitats across the continent is quite accountable through biological and ethological systematics. I think it's safe to say these guys are generalists in their ongoing foraging and survival strategies, rather than a specialized species with a higher degree of single habitat developed traits and needs, like, say, the spotted owl. They are able to sustain themselves on a multiplicity of foodstuffs, therefore, their presence is not predicated nor dependent on the availability of a single food source. This gives them the potential to inhabit most any ecosystem that provides sufficient nutrients in some form or another, as well as the ability to shift from one habitat to another for whatever reason motivates them, be it a valuable seasonal food source, weather, population density, water availability, deforestation, researchers, incursion by others of their species, noisy neighbors, hoaxers, finding suitable mates, or whatever. Now, presuming a terrestrial origin (not seeded by the ET's) they've been around for a good while and probably got to this continent long before we did, if not evolving to their current form here, during the reign of the megafauna of the Eocine/Oligocene periods, attaining their stature and abilities in a proving ground of giants, long before(according to mainstream theory) we arrived with our long distance running, coordinated group hunting, fire use and those sporty stone pointy things. As such they may well have had a vast range of most every viable habitat the continent had to offer, as long as the carnivores of the time could be held off or avoided. Then as the megafauna began to disappear things would have opened up considerably for a generalist species able to travel distances while foraging on what they could find until happening upon a suitable habitat once again. As the predators that could prey on them diminished and then died out, their potential for secure existence and easier food acquisition expanded, which could well lead to greater development of their social interaction and group activity, behaviors, and actions, which then itself leads to the development of progressively higher and higher cognitive ability and awareness. The absence of the big predators, as well as the rest of the disappearing megafauna would also open up niches, food sources, and position amid the food chain, allowing them to rise to the state of apex predator, presuming they weren't there already, which is another pathway of inquiry, which would then grant the species essentially carte Blanche in terms of foods, range, habitat, refuge, dominance, security, resource access. With this, what would prevent them from inhabiting virtually every region that can sustain them? If the populations grew beyond the capacity of the region, some would inevitably be pushed out into secondary habitats, with diminished resource availability, yet still sustaining. Through such processes they might easily come to exist over much of the country. Then just when things were going well, the ice sheets receeding, predators mostly gone, top of the food chain, and all that, these little hairless things start popping up everywhere saying this is there place to live, their crops, their hunting grounds, and even have the audacity to not share their women! There goes the continent...... In all likelihood, it turned into the typical neighborhood misunderstanding where it starts off with everyone a bit standoffish yet still cordial when the new folks move in, the locals try to outline the proper protocols(bring in the cans on trash day, don't burn down the forest, don't knock on old man Cha'tok' s place 'cause that dude will rip you little fellas in HALF!) The new folks don't listen so you shake a few trees at 'em, then they come back with their burning sticks, so you throw a few boulders their way, then they respond by tossing a bunch of really really pointy sticks at you, and it all goes down hill from there. The Big hairy people that were there first end up having to move out because the new people are just so unreasonable. Over time many of the nice, easy to get to spots get taken over, So they keep moving farther back, ever more remote. And to prevent further invasions, they keep out of sight so the little things don't follow them home. In this model, we humans, in a sense, kicked them out of Eden, with our arrival across the land bridge. Then with our technologies, use/misuse of fire and socially oriented approach to defense, resource management, and killin' stuff, we proffered little choice but to withdraw further and further into the wilderness, even assuming a nocturnal way of life, all the better to go unseen by those hairless upstarts. But none of this demands that they are not still inhabiting any or every available region that still can support their needs, while remaining undetected. And if you factor in socially developed awarenesses along with simple biological drives and motivators, you get a species well equipped for ongoing evasion of an essentially unaware "dominant" species such as ourselves.. Well...That's a start on it....the potential is unquestionably there for widespread presence of these creatures in most regions of the country, just think it through a bit...the possibilities are many.