north. The range begins in the mountains surrounding California, crosses over the mountains, continues consistently much farther east towards the Louisiana bayous and forests, and terminates in the entire Florida peninsula. In the East, the range expands northward to include most of the forested areas and swamps of the Southeast, and from there goes north along the Appalachian Mountains as far as upstate New York, with a growing presence in states bordering West Virginia and Kentucky. Texas has the largest estimated population of 2.5–2.6 million feral pigs existing in 253 of its 254 counties, which cause about $50 million in agriculture damage per year.