I don't know but fish and game did a study where they collected bear hair off of barbed wire and if I remember right, they came up with a population number that was t even half of that 1000 they are saying now...with as easy as it is to just drive out of town and see them with regularity in the summer, I'd say there is more than 1000

Proverbs 12:27
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.