Originally Posted By BZH
Well put Dyer!

Oldranger, do I read that correctly? In all your years as a park ranger you never had to deal with someone injured by a wild animal? I would of thought you must have dealt with some snot nosed kid who cornered a squirrel at some point in time. Very interesting anecdotal evidence from someone with considerable experience.


If you are interested in this sort of thing, there's books like Death in Yosemite and Death in the Grand Canyon that tabulate all the ways people die in the national parks.

Yosemite, for all its crazy habituated creatures, has only had the one fatality due to critter interaction - a freak accident involving a young deer and a toddler. Not just anecdotal.

Statistically speaking deer cause more human fatalities than the predators do.
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