"Alan Connor" wrote in message
ink.net...


In North America at present, including Canada, there are about 500,000
square
miles of mountain forests that are removed from major population centers
and in a climate that is cold-temperate or better.

Assuming 300,000,000 people in the U.S. and Canada, and that 5% of those
people can make it to, or are already in, the Rockies (etc.), that gives
these
areas a post-Collapse population density of approximately 30 people per
square mile, or about 20 acres apiece, back-to-back.

(your neighbor will be able to hit your house with a thrown rock from
their
front porch)


Having spend a good deal of time in Durango, I can say that if I had to live
in the Rockies to survive I would probably find a tall bridge (Royal Gorge?)
and jump off.

SD