From the various authors and experts that have written about bf, their estimate bf population ranges from 5000 to 20,000 bfs in the the United States. To me this is quite low. As some people questioned my estimates for bf populations in the Midwest let me explain how I came to that cocnclusion.
First, I took a state by state look at all the known bf sitings over the last fifty years and multiplied it by three. Then divided it by.5.
If we took the same hypothetical analysis of the six regions within the United States (excluding Alaska) then you need a viable sustainable population maybe up to 250,000 to 400,000 animals. The biggest populations in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest and the smallest in the southeast and the great plains.
What I mean by a viable population is this. A population that is heterogenous and the population is at a level where it increases due to close contact to other populations where breeding can occur.
I do not think that those authors and researchers thought of the biology of population density of the bfs. What do you think?
Posted on Mar 8, 2002, 5:30 AM from IP address 64.12.102.179