Read your article and thought I'd pass on some information about sightings in Del Norte Coounty (Crescent City, Klamath, Gasquet, etc.). While working for the power company, I lived in that area off and on for about 10 years. Each year there were articles in the local paper about Big Foot sightings by fishermen, travelers, and local people especially in the Klamath, Ca. area. 
     It seems that the majority of sightings took place near a stretch of HWY 101 near False Klamath Cove, where in the fall the Big Foot would be sighted just before dark as they went down to the beach. Biologists from the US Forest Service also investigated the sightings and thought that the creatures migrated to the area in the fall to feed on shellfish. 
     My friend provided me with plaster casts of footprints and I watched a video they shot which showed a large animal of some kind moving quickly through the dense redwood forest. Rich described visiting a bedding area where seveeral Big Foot slept on piles of brush. He showed me hair gathered from that sight. The hair was sent to the University of California and was deteermined to be from no known species of animal, but was cataloged with hundreds of other samples sent in each year. 
     Rich is a very normal fellow that became involved when he befriended Native Americans whose family had seen several animals on their property over the years and were being ridiculed by ignorant locals. He actually helped move a bedding sight that was close to being discovered by some Big Foot  hunters that wanted to kill one.  Rich was on the National Geographic Explorer series about Big Foot. 
     He once asked if I would like to see a bedding sight and I refused because I would rather "believe" they exist rather than know for sure. One of the questions always asked by skeptics is "Why has a carcass never been found in the woods?" Rich always counters with the question, "Why aren't carcasses of bear or large cats ever found in the woods?" In fact, Rich is sure that carcasses have been found, but by folks that respect the secrecy and mystery that has surrounded these creatures. Remember that Big Foot has been part of the Native American culture for hundreds of years. 
      Thank you MV for taking the time to write. If you have a sighting please e-mail here at authorsden. I must have a full name but will only use initials. 
   Linda Newton-Perry along with her husband Christopher Perry is the author of the Viking Age novel, FORCED BLOOD THE NORSEMAN. Buy your signed copy here on authorsden.  
(I have changed little of this e-mail and reproduce it here so that you can enjoy this subject as I do. Linda)