>>2826654Not him but i'm a western park ranger and live in one (not the interpretive kind).
>>2826640Tourists will always be retarded. I could rant for hours about the dumb shit I deal with. Even yesterday was fucking shitty with some retarded hippie I had to remove.
Short answer is that there is no fixing it. Humans will always be idiots.
Education would work if anyone cared or paid attention. I think instilling respect would also help. In the 70's the anti-pollution campaigns in the USA actually did a lot of work and I wish we'd bring it back. Right now one of the big campaigns is "be bear aware."
Making a park less accessible helps. I wish people knew the difference between a national park and national forest/wildland. If you want freedom, to harvest, hunt, or fuck around, go to a national forest. If you want to just hike and enjoy nature, maybe camp, go to a park.
God I fucking hate so many people. Littering, poaching, dogs off leash in wildlife areas, not following rules on signs, trying to build a little shelter in the woods because you think I won't come down and tear it up and you wanna larp as ted, etc.
I really hate people who come strapped for bear and refuse to realize that bear spray works better. Especially if they try and bait a bear to attack them so they can think they acted in self defense when they put themselves in danger. Like fuck. Some of those retards will provoke a bear like a white guy sitting outside a hood gas station and shouting nigger then act surprised when shit goes south.
