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Ranger wounded, suspect dead in rare shooting at Yellowstone National Park, NPS says
(www.usatoday.com)
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Canyon Village isn't wilderness. Yellowstone isn't wilderness. No one makes stupid threats in the wilderness.
Why is Yellowstone not wilderness?
In the US a "wilderness" is a large area completely devoid of documented human infrastructure.
Yellowstone's publicly accessible areas have very well-developed infrastructure. The vast majority of the park is meant to be explored by vehicle on paved roads and by walking paved trails. But, even the dirt trails are so "well maintained" that they're like a wide dirt sidewalk with an occasional root or rock. There's non-public areas inside Yellowstone that are almost devoid of infrastructure and maintenance, almost wilderness.
I once threatened to come up there and fistfight whatever woodland creature threw that acorn at me. I had no clue where it was and I was unwilling to actually do any climbing.
Don't you try telling me how stupid I can be in the wilderness.
My friend, it's so stupid it's looped back around into extremely wise. If you perceive a wildlife threat then the two most effective tactics are:
Put a rock or tree between you and the threat, then keep it between you.
Angrily yell at it while waving your arms to appear large (an air horn or a warning shot is a very effective punctuation)
I've angrily told off dozens of bears.
Dozens, really?
I'm really enjoying the mental image of a woods-based comedy thriller, a scene in which I'm loading my shotgun while trying to strategically placed myself against a rock or tree. Shouting threats and trying to reason with a squirrel or whatever that was in a tree, I fire off my shotgun, sending dozens of terrified birds and arboreous rodents fleeing and dislodging a barrage of various nuts and mast that rain on me.
"It's an ambush!" I cry out before pumping my own leg full of ricochet shot off of my hiding post.