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There is only one threat that could wipe out bigfoot as a species. Disease. Contentions that they are being forced into extinction by habitat loss are not based on either evidence or logic. A spotted owl lives in a very specific habitat niche. Damage that niche, you damage the species. Bigfoot, however, are immensely adaptable. They've been reported in every major terrain, and reported to take advantage of a wide range of food sources. They can also apply intelligence to adapt to changes as neceessary. Other, less intelligent species, both predator and prey, that are adaptive are bounding back and spreading into areas where they had once been hunted out. I found, but have not been able to locate since, an oral history from a Southeastern Native American tribe that stated that bigfoot had once been numerous, but that when smallpox and other European diseases were introduced back in the 1500's the bigfoot population was hit even harder than the Native American population. So hard that for generations the surviving Native Americans believed that the bigfoot had completely died out. If this were the case, it might take centuries for their population to rebuild. It could also result in isolated regional pockets, which could account well for the regional variations in both physical size and behavior. It may be that they are just now, under the same conditions that allow other adaptive species to thrive, once again achieving larger populations. If so, this will work against them, as internal population pressure drives them to expand into more areas, and inevitably into more frequent contact with humans. I believe that there are more of them than most people think, and that their numbers are expanding at an accelerating pace decade by decade. I also believe that they can and will go anywhere they want. I also believe that they will need to occupy more and more habitat as their population expands. They're not being threatened into extinction, they being threatened by their own success and population expansion. Because this is what will likely result in their "discovery".

I saw a crow flying sideways today. The wind was too strong for him.

One of the basic problems with asking a question like the OP does, is that it assumes a "data or story collection point" like this forum, is somehow the center of the bigfoot universe, and therefore if ANYTHING related to bigfoot has ever happened anywhere, anytime, we'd certainly know about it. THAT just isn't reality. Even in this day and age of connectivity, the real number of people truly involved in "bigfooting" is probably so disproportionate to the number of people who spend time in the woods in North America, or who have EVER had a BF related incident, that it isn't representational of reality. There are MANY people out there involved in research who do NOT actively use the internet or forums like this to do what they do. And there are (rationally guessing) far more people who HAVE had encounters or sightings over the years that will never reveal that to anyone, that again, the numbers are skewed toward 'non-reporting' of encounters. I'm in my 50's and have read up on the phenomenon since I was a kid in school and didn't become "active" until 2003 when a family member had 2 encounters, but my lifespan barely means anything in relation to how long ago Europeans came to N.A. and how much could or may really have happened in centuries of history that we'll never know about. So to reach for conclusions about populations, and why more haven't been shot, can be entertaining, but we simply don't know what we simply don't know. Speculation is fun, but absent of real hardcore data, doesn't usually lead you to real substantive answers. It just usually leads to more questions with more speculation, and then it goes down a spiraling vortex till you burn yourself out thinking the lack of an answer means none of it can possibly be true. Then people usually burn out and give up because it's human nature. So, "Blessed are those who HAVE seen... because they can't go back to not believing." The number that have been shot and killed will probably (in the end) be much higher than you or I would have guessed, because some secrets are best left buried. Time will tell.

To the OP, no, but well enough dispersed across the country to exist in small groups in appropriate habitat.

And yet, a statement like that IS a conclusion based on assumption, with no real evidence either. A report by someone is not a declaration of "And he LIVES right here where I saw it." Travel and migration routes easily explain many sightings and encounters in areas where the creatures couldn't easily maintain it's hidden lifestyle.

Millions of acres of remote forests, mountains, semi-arid deserts - thousands of valleys you could hide entire military divisions - and yet these things are being squeezed or already squeezed to extinction. Plentiful water, pristine water, wildlife everywhere, shelter, lots of natural vegetation, but only a handful could possibly populate these millions of rich acreage? Whatever.

Well, you do have the Bukwas masks and a few others created by Northwest tribes, plus the Hairyman cave drawings. Others scattered worldwide also. http://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Wild_Man_legends

The preponderance of evidence comes into play here. The disconnect comes when the two sides evaluate the proffered evidence. Those who believe that Bigfoot do/might exist place more weight on that evidence being true than those who believe that bigfoot do not exist. Those who know that bigfoot exist and those who believe that bigfoot can not exist are beyond reasoning with. Their worldview is fixed.