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Thanks for the ping.
If all the facts of this piece are correct and nothing was left out, which I’m skeptical of because it’s AP, I would think the Forest Service should have alerted people because of the attack earlier.
It’s very sad indeed this happened but IMO there are many reasons. Those reasons have come about over a lot of years and I think these events will increase.
Many people that want the experience of camping don’t know the first thing about it and take their families into wild areas and know nothing or very little of safety precautions they should take.
Anti-hunting whackos and animal rights whackos want us to live among the animals because it was their habitat we are taking away from them. Of course the vast majority of those whackos live in the cities where the only wild animal they see is in a zoo.
Bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves are increasing in numbers because of the anti-hunting people and these animals have to eat, they are forced to seek food in more populated areas not only because there are more of them but people are populating what was once their habitat.
25 years ago and before that the people that lived in the areas where these animals existed kept them thinned out for their own protection and the protection of their livestock and pets. Now it seems polititions and agencies, because of the enviro whackos, want to relocate problem animals instead of just shooting them and it’s not working very well, IMO.