Changing of the forest landscape

[Lefty]

As many know, the serious beetle infestations in the Rocky Mountains, have been changing the foest landscape. Many pine forests, that were changing to brown a few years ago, are now heaps of deadfall in new open hillsides and mountain tops. Mountain landscapes change to Nature's tune throughout time, with fire and earthquakes, and other kinds of die offs. I'm curious if elk will once again take to sage and scrub hillsides, as they historically had before. Will their migration patterns chage? Will deer migration change? Will we have Bigfoot sitings in new places?

[Bill]

The deer and elk will go where food is. If that's open land then so be it they will go there and feed.

Bigfoot sightings will be reported where ever folks travel that believe they exist. I suspect the vast majority of such sightings will be misidentification of bears and the rest just shadows thought to be live animals and of course we'll always have the hoaxes.