People really fail to see some the opportunities that allow Sasquatch to exist. For example native marsh grasses like my cattail marsh have
tubers that are a very dense food source, even more so than corn. So as others have suggested they ride the wave of nature and whatever
is at it's peak, an example easily noted is berries, but there are far less obvious possibilities. I also have a heron rookery in my marsh with nearly 100 nests, the number of eggs available is tremendous, and no match for the smaller squatches to gather in the night, which might explain the ridiculous racket I hear at times. Smaller rodents are an obvious target, such as prolific marsh rats, and the usual(raccoon, possum, rabbit, skunks) fare. Selective harvesting of deer and coyotes is available, but geese are far more plentiful. They are slow moving and I think easy enough to bat out of the air for a creature with the stealth to pop up towering over the marsh at just the right moment. Or pick them off with a well thrown rock. If they constantly were taking deer and coyotes to survive I think the evidence would be more obvious that they were present. I think they will avoid doing that until desperate enough, or to fatten up for colder months. They only need ample habitat to conceal and support them, and that is present in very many places across the Midwest, so I think there are small populations dotted across the area. I theorize about 6-8 individuals(traveling in groups of 2-3) live in the 300 miles that surround Chicago, based on the locations and timing of the sightings, including sightings of 2 at one time. So while being more isolated from their kind, I think they eek out an existence and periodically gather in larger groups for mating purposes, which explains why some areas have large numbers of sightings, disproportionate to the amount of cover, like Lasalle IL. and that whole area....something like what I have described is occurring, maybe at a smaller scale than I have suggested, or perhaps a larger scale. Meldrum and other western researchers fail at times to see the possibilities these creatures are exploiting. Maybe they just do not want to think that they missed a creature that widespread, or admit to them being more numerous while certainly extremely rare,