That’s why I am looking at it. 👍

You're probably going to start thinking I'm picking on you .. I'm not trying to.    a) you have to ask "useless to whom?"   b) who gets to define "encounter"?       I absolutely look at food availability, location, season, type, effort to extract, etc. when I think about looking for bigfoot.    It's far from the only factor but it does have to be consistent with the rest.   Where there isn't food enough, then we're looking at travel rather than occupancy.         

Hello Big Tex and thank you for the reply. Wow, you have been on the Bigfoot Trail for a long time ever since your experience when you're very young. It seems like that's all it takes to get interested in Bigfoot is one good experience, and you're set for life researching and studying this creature. I live in a town of about 20,000 people called Coos Bay Oregon and south of here is a road called the Seven Devils road. This was a term used by the early pioneers who found this area to be inhabited by the Bigfoots. I was out there just the other day and was hiking along one of the trails that goes through this area that is covered by dense brush and pine trees that make the forest so thick you can only see in it about 20 feet. I was a little leery about going too far into this area because you never know if the bigfoots are friendly or just shy and hide from any human activity. Not too far from this area is the county dump and a rumor has been circulating that the Bigfoots go up this creek canyon along the trails that I was on, and they go into the dump and  scavenge for food.  

Not necessarily. For example, I'm a bear hunter, but I rarely shoot them. My wife doesn't want me to, and I've grown to appreciate just watching them with optics. I enjoy just knowing as much about them as I can, but especially experiencing them personally in the wild with the rest of God's Creation all around.   As I type, I recall watching a sow bear walking up a huge, old landslide on the opposite  side of the Chulitna River from me as I was glassing during a moose hunt. As I recall the experience, I can clearly remember the strong breeze blowing up the river valley, the daily view of Denali nearby, and the giant boar bear prints that we find near camp as we left at the end of hunt. That old boar walked around our camp the evening before we left and left great prints in the mud of the trail for a couple miles. I took pics of a really good rear print. It was a foot long. A few days later, recounting the experience at work, another guy who had hunted that valley (and had shot a very interesting grizzly, which had a smashed face) told he he had seen that bear with his binoculars the year before. He was likely a 9 footer.    Yeah, "an encounter" can mean different things to different people......................

I believe that the limited like evidence can be safe food for inference, but not solid enough to establish behavior. In the two examples I used above (Sunnyslope and Bossburg), both were in mid-winter, both were in central or east Washington (on the east side of the Cascades, and thus not in the coast range), and both left a long trackway (miles). As Nathan correctly clarified about my post on sasquatches in the Coast Range moving towards beaches to utilize beach foods, this is not likely at all of sasquatches in mountain ranges east of the Coast Range, like the Rockies, Blues, Cascades (south of the Columbia River), Sierra Nevada, etc (although sightings and trackways found in California's Central Valley in winter even infers that they might migrate to the Coast Range from the Sierras, or vice versa, on occasion).   Peter Byrne once found a trackway in snow. I forget where regionally. He followed them through difficult terrain for miles. I don't think he theorized a general direction or motivation for the travel. The most notable thing I remember about his account was, at one point, the tracks walked atop a large fallen log covered in snow, and then the track maker jumped several feet to another snow covered fallen log. He was impressed, writing that such a jump was not possible by a hoaxer. What I find disappointing about his account is that his report on it, from his personal experience, is recorded in one of his books, but otherwise is lost to a queryable database search so that it might be available to help alleviate one of your recognized disclaimers (small sample size).....................