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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work closely with the NPS, this is very, very common. LOTS of people die each year in National Parks due to their own negligence. I think a lot of people aren't savvy about wildlife or nature and it's their first time in a rural, natural place. City people thinking it's an amusement park. NPS has tons and tons of signs everywhere about bison, not walking into hot springs, not walking off the cliff at the Grand Canyon, not getting lost in the woods where there's not cell reception, on and on. [/quote]

There are a couple of great books about how people die in some of the larger parks.  In the Grand Canyon there are very few death from animals even though they have poisonous snakes etc. Helicopter rides through are notoriously unsafe. Lots of people don't know how their bodies work and not just related to heat. People go sit out on ledges over cliffs and don't realize it is common to experience vertigo or dizziness when you stand up and are at a height, then they tumble down...[/quote]

Lighting strikes are a big killer of folks in Nat'l Parks. [/quote]

Also people don't understand how their bodies work wrt water. When folks on white water rafting trips get dumped in to the water, they often go into shock because of the cold and they dont react as expected. People can also do a poor job of hydration. If you don't add sugar or something to your water you can cause yourself serious illness.[/quote]

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