[pct-l] Bears: Risk of becoming a fatality? Statistics of interest here...

[Kevin Cook]

Is your goal to make me less afraid of a bear attach or more afraid of
humans?
No need, I've always been more afraid of man than any other animal ;)

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Bruce "Buck" Nelson <buck at bucktrack.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> When discussions of bear danger come up I always wish for a source
> of more complete real-world statistics. I recently gathered information
> and statistics from numerous cited sources.
>
> Examples of interesting results were that roughly 1 out of 20,000 people
> kills someone in a given year, while about 1 out of 200,000 bears kills
> someone during that same year; and that your odds of being a bear fatality
>
> in a single encounter are about 1 out of a million.
> Don't forget to read the comments, and add your own, if you like.
>
> For a lot more on the topic, please see
> http://bucktrack.blogspot.com/2011/02/bears-should-you-be-afraid.html.
> I think you'll find it interesting.
>
> Colter
>
>
>
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