I dont really believe these critters are really in much compition with us as of now, I remember reading an article that said less than 5% of our total land mass is undeveloped, In between all these cities and suburbs are woods that ajoin there territories together, they get spotted crossing roads when the road becomes a small obstacle within there range.In fact some of these creatures are taking advantage of all the farms, fruit orchards, livestock that modern man provides them with.I laugh to myself when all these researchers want protection for bigfoot, Bigfoot has managed to protect itself far greater than we ever could,the best we could do for them is save our wilderness in which with or without there official discovery our wilderness will be protected to a certain degree. Long live Bigfoot