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

[Austin Williams]

me too!  and for good reason I think....


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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Cook <hikelite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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