Cryptic News from the Willow Creek View. Transhuman Sasquatch Strangeness from the Middle of Nowhere.
A Voice Howling out from the Klamath-Trinity-Siskiyou Wilderness. This is the Megaphone of Steven Streufert and Bigfoot Books, a Used Book Store in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, Extreme Northern California.
Sharonlee reports on Bigfoot events and activities across the United States. She resides in Ohio. Find her BF Field Reporter page on FaceBook HERE. She has a Bigfoot Field Reporter Blog here: http://bigfootlives.blogspot.com/ where she blogged about the upcoming show under the January 6th entry.
NOTE: Check the link for the exact time. It may change, as the original time conflicted with SquatchDetective's slot. The last we heard it was going on at 4:00 Pacific Time, or 7:00 Eastern Time.
The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT series, now at 33 videos, may be
seen on YouTube under Uploads at BFRO-VIDEOS.
Sharon Lee took this photo when she visited our shop in 2009.
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Angry Bigfoot is hibernating. However, at one point as he rolled over in his sleep he was heard to mutter, "Why we not can just get along, hu-man?"
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This blog is copyrighted, 2011 Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert, aside from materials presented from others for "research purposes only," though you may borrow and quote if full citation is given, preferably with notice to us and a kindly link to this blog. Thanks!
BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Another Special Notice, Late-November 2010
Here are SOME MORE!
Videos Four through Eight of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT
have now been posted.
Our summer's studies' results are finally coming forth. "C.I.," Robert Leiterman and Yours Truly set out to know Bluff Creek and its history better, especially as pertains to the Patterson-Gimlin Film. We sought to find the true site and track-way location, despite the fact that there are at least five different proposals from various researchers, and memories seem to have grown vague and as mysterious as the regrown forest now covering the once open sandbar where the famous Bigfoot film was shot. Here are the three introductory Bigfoot-nerd sessions trying to lay the preliminary foundations for our subsequent visits to the site area. Enjoy!
Earth Explorer Image centered on the general consensus PGF site area.
As Robert puts it on the YouTube pages: "Steven Streufert, Ian and Robert Leiterman are taking another look at the P-G Film site 43 years later. With conflicting thoughts as to exactly where the film site is today, they have decided to re-evaluate the facts, interview those in the know and spend some extensive leg work on the ground. They are trying to piece together what nature has spent the last 43 years turning back into a riparian forest. Part of an on going series."
Here is PART FOUR of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. Watch Robert Leiterman as he walks up the creek from the Bluff Creek Bridge to the Patterson-Gimlin Film site.
Here is PART FIVE of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, wherein we hike down the dirt road above the site and observe the sand bar and creek canyon below, and finally reach the bat boxes landing on the creek.
Here is PART SIX of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, wherein three Bigfooting nerds really geek out in the rain nitpicking over the details given us by Peter Byrne for his location of the Patterson-Gimlin Film site.
Here is PART SEVEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here at the "Peter Byrne Site" we compare old photos to new landscapes, stumble upon stumps, and dig in the sand searching for the very ground Patty walked upon in the PGF.
Here is PART EIGHT of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we bumble and wade up the creek, through the maze of fallen trees and wood debris, and come to the ostensible site as identified by Christopher Murphy in his book KNOW THE SASQUATCH/BIGFOOT. Still no conclusive proof of the PGF location.
If the above embedded video boxes don't pop up do check for them at BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Look in "Uploads" and then "See All." There's a lot of other cool stuff in there.
Or just click one of these links:
We've been a little active on the JREF Forum lately. Click the name to view the thread about where we got started... or HERE, and HERE (these are pages 116-118 of the "Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 3" thread)... and you will see why we had to dive into it. Perhaps we'll always have to deal with this "Swastika Steve" business now. Oh well. Perhaps that is better than "BipolarBookBoy" or "Charlie Manson Eyes"!
History of Six Rivers National Forest book cover
You know what they say: If you can't beat them on the subject itself, attack the messenger. It is fun talking with skeptics! After all, we are one, too, in many ways; but we choose to leave Bigfoot out of that skepticism, and focus more on concepts of Bigfoot to be skeptical over. In fact, we are SKEPTICAL OF SKEPTICS. So there.
Anyway, thanks to one AlaskaBushPilot we got a tip on this fine book. It is available free online, so check it out. It is a US Government Printing Office/US Forest Service book,
This puts Bluff Creek and it's Bigfooting history into perspective. Check it out!
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Here are two recent photos from Willow Creek just for you. They were taken with an iPhone, not the greatest camera. Click to Enlarge....
So much for Bigfoot hunting in Bluff Creek for the year!
The G-O Road, near Bluff Creek and the "Bigfoot Lives" sign.
Reported Bigfoot track found at Big Rock, Willow Creek.
After Bobo and Richard drove all the way out from
Arcata we found out that it was a bear track!
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Hu-man! You get call say Bigfoot track on sand at Big Rock. You drive stinky truck all way from Arcata and look. You think you find bear track. Fool hu-man, me leave that track by go tip-toe. Me sure fool you! Ha ha. Me still LMAOROTFLOL, you so puny and have no fur.
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Willow Creek's BIGFOOT DAYS will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this Labor Day weekend. The theme this year is
“Bigfoot's Nifty Fifty: 50 Years of Bigfoot.”
That makes Bigfoot Days nearly as old as the 1958 Jerry Crew footprint cast newspaper article that made Bluff Creek, Willow Creek, and BIGFOOT world famous. The parade starts in the morning a bit after 10:00, and then the festivities move down to Veterans' Park for the afternoon, with vendor booths, music, food, and sometimes even Al Hodgson.
They are adding a bunch of new activities this year, though perhaps not more Bigfoot stuff. Word has it there is going to be a firemen's muster and competition, just like in the old days before insurance liability problems.
We quote: "There will be lawn mower races, water slides, water balloon fights, a horseshoe contest, a logging competition and an obstacle course. A dance at Veteran's hall will end Saturday's festivities. Sunday morning, a disc golf tournament will take place at Creekside Park. For more information about Bigfoot Days, contact Trina Cardoza at (530) 625-4208 ext. 481."
Your loyal BIGFOOT'S BLOG reporter will be there, camera batteries permitting, documenting the event just for you.
Images: Bigfoot Days 2009, taken by Steven Streufert. Top image is courtesy of the WCK Chamber of Commerce.
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The BIGFOOT'S BLOG NEWS FLASH SERIES will be part of our never-ending struggle to be concise and pertinent to the news of the day, not just long-term philosophical quandaries. Look for these from now on to appear on this blog. One might also become a "fan/friend" our our BIGFOOT'S BLOG FACEBOOK PAGE to get even more urgent and excruciatingly crucial information on a daily, sometimes hourly, sometimes way-too-often basis.
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BIGFOOT'S BLOG NEWS FLASH!... with another Update, below.
Just in today, only one day after the BFF/Bigfoot Forums was shut down "indefinitely" by its founder, Brian Brown/"Bipto," it is now being leaked that the site will be revived!
BELIEVE IT, OR NOT!!!
BIGFOOT FORUMS/BFF RESURRECTION! It died one day, then revived the next! Will it be a brain-eating zombie, or something new? What will they do to clear out all the old problems and problematic characters??? Will RedWolf, MasterBarber, BlackDog and Teresa still remain? Will they be tolerated even when they abuse the Forum and its members? Will their antics just overwhelm the site, however new and revamped? We shall see. This is all stranger, even, than Bigfoot.
The notice was posted by THE BIGFOOT SHOW on its Facebook page today. A new logo, a new attitude, a new web server, and a new administration are in the works.
"There are plans in the works to relaunch the Bigfoot Forums as an all-new website. To be kept up to date, "like" the new Bigfoot Forums page on Facebook."
From the BIGFOOT FORUMS FACEBOOK PAGE:
BigfootForums.com: "Get ready for the re-launch of bigfootforums.com - a new home, new administration, new format, new attitude. In the meantime, 'like' this page and we can keep you up-to-date on our progress. Hopefully the new website will be up and running in a couple of weeks and ready for new registration. There are people busy working behind the scenes to make this happen for the benefit of the bigfoot community."
No further news or information is being put forth as yet, but we will be inquiring on our readers' behalf, and hope to have all the updates for you ASAP when they become available.
Let us hope for the best! Apparently the Founder has found someone else to take this task from his hands, as it was previously rumored that he wanted to do. We wish Brian Brown well, whatever he does, and whether or not he is involved with this new version of the BFF. And we DO indeed sincerely hope that he will continue to do THE BIGFOOT SHOW, the best (or at least the funniest) Sasquatch-related podcast show on the internet.
See our PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE BFF SITUATION, HERE HERE, and HERE, or find them in the side links to the left of this page.
UPDATE!August 19th:
There is a thread on the skeptical JREF FORUM (James Randi Educational Foundation) dealing with the BFF Meltdown, featuring many of the former BFF characters, moderators and administrators. CHECK IT OUT HERE!
Be sure to read all the way to page four there. You will see the words of RedWolf, Paul Vella, Brian Brown (Bipto) and others. Fascinating. News in precis: Paul Vella, former Chief Admin., is helping get the BFF set up, with all of its former content, on a new server, with new owners. He will NOT be staying on as an authority figure on the site. Apparently all new registrations will be required for users, and those formerly banned will have a chance to return. This could be a fresh, new start; and those involved are asking that a new attitude of fairness, peace and human kindness prevail. Of course, skepticism of this possibility abouds!
The whole thread is quite revealing of the BFF characters, good, bad, and sometimes kinda ugly.
Another post appeared on the BFF2.0 Facebook page: "When the website re-opens, all existing members will need to re-register - registration will be open to all, including those who have previously been banned. If you have existing grudges with other members or the old administration, leave them at the door please, this is going to be a fresh start for BFF, and we hope, for the entire bigfoot community."
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The BIGFOOT'S BLOG NEWS FLASH SERIES will be part of our never-ending struggle to be concise and pertinent to the news of the day, not just long-term philosophical quandaries. Look for these from now on to appear on this blog. One might also become a "fan/friend" our our BIGFOOT'S BLOG FACEBOOK PAGE to get even more urgent and excruciatingly crucial information on a daily, sometimes hourly, sometimes way-too-often basis.
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The Hoopa newspaper, TWO RIVERS TRIBUNE, on November 3, 2009, Volume 15, Issue 43, has just published an article about the Port Orford Cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) situation in the Fish Lake and Blue Lake areas just west and south of the classic Bluff Creek Bigfoot territory. The paper's article is not yet posted online, but it should be archived soon. Reporter Shelly Baldy interviewed Orleans Ranger District silviculturist, Todd Salberg on the situation. For now, we will summarize it for all of you.
Images, CLICK TO ENLARGE: Above, dead and dying Port Orford Cedars at Blue Lake; Below, among the lichens and moss, the grey fungus grows.
Almost fifty roads in the Six Rivers National Forest have been closed for the season to stop the spread of the non-native fungal disease that attacks these beautiful trees in particular, killing off their root systems. The Forest Service regularly closes these roads in the winter and wet seasons, but the situation seems to be getting worse. There is no known cure or abatement for this disease, the only tactic known being trying to stop the spread of the infestation. The exotic fungal disease began to enter the wilds in the 1920s. First spreading from Washington, "It was introduced in a nursery south of Seattle and escaped and eventually moved down to northern Oregon," stated Salberg.
The first known case in Six Rivers National Forest was at Blue Lake, discovered growing on a cedar that had had a limb cut from it, introducing the spores, in 1996. We of Bigfoot Books investigated the situation this summer, which is when the photos of cedars used in this blog entry were taken. The problem is that, quoting Baldy, "After the disease infects its host, it begins to spread through the water source. In the case of the Blue Lake area, it was a death sentence for the entire Bluff Creek area." Especially problematic is that the fungus moves down watersheds through the watercourses, so an infestation at a spot like Fish Lake, or up the canyon further, can infect the entire area.
See our previous post on this issue HERE. Read on....
And now the fungus has been located in a new spot up the watershed, right above bigfooting's Mecca, Louse Camp, just down from the P-G film site. It is up in the area above the camp, too, up from the main creeks, so it could only really have been spread by human (or Bigfoot?) incursion. "Today, Salberg said, nearly all of the POCs located on Bee Mountain (also referred to as Bluff Creek) are infected." The Forest Service thinks that the fungus was spread into there due to marijuana cultivators--it was in a brushed over area without previous animal and other trails--but it could just as well have been... BIGFOOTERS who spread it in there.
This means YOU, bigfooters--this is where YOU might come in.
See, every time you hop that gate and tramp on in to the Fish Lake area to do your off-season call blasting and wood knocking while out squatching you may in fact be causing this fungus to spread. It is carried on boots and tires of cars. especially the knobby kind, under wet conditions. Think about it: is it worth killing off these amazing old growth trees, the hidden glory of the Bluff Creek area, and damaging Bigfoot habitat while at it, just to get your glorious evidence and adventure? This applies to hunters and fishermen as well. Not only are these habitats and trees important to wildlife, but, the article states, they are important to Native American culture: "Because POCs are used for the Tribal cultural uses, which include storage units, planks for traditional xontas (homes), and for spiritual cleansing, if the disease entered the forest on the reservation it could be detrimental to the Hoopa Tribe." So please, be respectful, be careful, think before you go in there, especially if it is closed with a gate. Think before you wear the same boots to Fish Lake, and then to other spots in the Bluff Creek basin wearing those shoes. The impact could be way worse than just your footprints. If these trees are gone, if the habitat is permanently damaged, your chances of seeing a Sasquatch will simply be all the less! And there is no cure. Not only this, but look: every year those roads are closed longer and longer in the early summertime, long after the snows on the roads have melted. If this situation gets worse we could find our bigfooting in the Bluff Creek area effectively restricted for most of the year!
Images: Above, sign tacked on the fence at Blue Lake, Did I Kill This Tree?"; Below, "Two healthy looking Port Orfords and one fir along the Blue Lake shoreline.
The fungus is thought to be alien to the USA. The Port Orford Cedar is a wonderful, redwood-like tree that grows to great heights and girths, and covers a very limited range in only the most ideal habitat zones. So, it is crucial that these small areas where they grow be protected and respected.
The disease, from Wikipedia: "Phytophthora lateralis is a soil-bourne plant pathogen that causes cedar root disease in Port Orford cedar trees in Northern USA."
From the Wiki page, here is the full description of the disease affecting them:
"In the wild, the species is seriously threatened by a root disease caused by the introduced fungal pathogen, Phytophthora lateralis. This disease is also a problem for horticultural plantings in some parts of North America. The tree is sometimes killed, though less often, by other species of Phytophthora. Phytophthora lateralis infection begins when mycelium, from a germinated spore, invade the roots. The infection then spreads through the inner bark and cambium around the base of the tree. Spread up the trunk is generally limited. Infected tissue dies and effectively girdles the tree. Large trees are more likely to be infected than small trees due to larger root areas (although all trees at the edges of infected streams will eventually succumb). However, large trees can often live with the infections for a longer duration (up to several years)."
Image: Downed trees, with the root rot clearly visible on the Port Orford in the foreground.
"Port Orford 'Cedar' [it is not a 'true' cedar] in streamside populations are highly susceptible to Phytophthora lateralis infection. However, the rate of Phytophthora spread through populations in dry upland areas appears to be slow. Phytophthora lateralis spreads through water via mobile spores (zoospores). The fungus also produces resting spores (chlamydospores) that can persist in soil for a long period of time. New infections generally begin when soil is transferred from an infected population to a non-infected population via human or animal movement. After initial infection in streamside populations, secondary spread via zoospores quickly infects all downstream individuals."
"Human facilitated spread is thought to be responsible for most new, and all long-distance, infections. Soil on vehicle tires, especially logging trucks and other off road vehicles, is considered the most pressing problem due to the volume of soil that can be carried and the traffic rate in and between susceptible areas. Spread on boots and mountain bike tires has also been suggested and probably contributes to new infections locally. Animal facilitated spread is thought to occur, but is localized."
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and United States Forest Service (USFS) attempt to prevent Phytophthora spread through road closures, monitoring, research and education. Research has focused on determining the dynamics and mechanisms of spread, as well as attempts to breed resistant trees."
Source: Wikipedia, accessed on November 4th, 2009, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Orford_cedar. View this link for futher information and identification of this special breed of tree.
Images: Above, a trail around Blue Lake, among lovely but affected Port Orford Cedars; To left, the lush and green, but infected habitat of the tree, including tan oaks, madrone, Douglas fir and spruce as well; Below, Blue Lake covered in lily pads, cedars in background.
All images used here Copyright 2009, Steven Streufert and Bigfoot Books (CONTACT). They may be used with permission, citation and link to this blog, especially if it is in the cause of the Port Orford Cedar.
Access the fine Hoopa People's paper, TWO RIVERS TRIBUNE, here: http://www.tworiverstribune.com/. It is the best paper in the mountain area known as Bigfoot Country, and covers the whole Trinity-Klamath region beyond just Tribal issues.
ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS:
Me not more angry coz me already angry of this one! How you hu-man feel if me come into dumb little hu-man house box, leave Bigfoot stink you no like (me do!) on couch, eat all hu-man food and drink beer, leave mess and my bigfoot poop log on your floor? Me will do if you do not be nice to my tree! Serious, me got big time stinky to put in your living room, and me make pee pee on you car door handle, hu-man!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sharonlee0827/2011/01/10/the-bigfoot-field-reporter
NOTE: Check the link for the exact time. It may change, as the original time conflicted with SquatchDetective's slot. The last we heard it was going on at 4:00 Pacific Time, or 7:00 Eastern Time.
ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
