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Originally Posted by Bounder45
How is spending more $ or increasing the Ranger force going to decrease the # of rescues? If anything, it will increase those #'s since people will feel like there is a bigger safety net to come and pick them up if they get into trouble.
If rescue #'s continue to rise, we're going to see more and more of the state budget spent on those efforts rather than on true conservation efforts.
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Did you ever read anything about Pete Fish and how he used to interact with hikers to educate?
That's a good way to teach people how to be safe on the trail and intervene before a rescue is necessary.
If the Trailhead Stewards can do it, imagine what an experienced ranger could do.
Good luck being a ranger and trying to educate today!
A guy like Pete Fish couldn't do what he did back then today as he would be too busy rescuing people.
Just on a shear volume level of hikers, it makes no sense that they have the same numbers of rangers that they did 10 or 20 years ago.