State Park rangers in California have been required to be and are law enforcement certified for many, many years. About 40 I think. Changed sometime in the 60's when their jobs changed to controlling people from protecting the woods and wilds. Mike
On 9/29/09 10:22 AM, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Donna Skarloken <dskarloken@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yosemite, as someone mentioned, is just >> too crowded. I live in California, was born here, and don't expect to move >> anywhere else except possibly Nevada, but as someone also pointed out, it >> is >> an extremely crowded state, depending on where you go, and I think there >> tend to be more weirdos here just because there are more people. > > > California is very crowded. Camping there in primitive settings isn't > something I choose to do there very often. Too many flakey people around. > The state parks and formal forest service campgrounds are probably > safer...Many of the 'rangers' I've talked to in California have had law > enforcment training and are more like cops than forest rangers. In Anza > Borrego state park, for example, over New Years holiday they have 60,000 > visitors and 4 murders..They bring in Law Enforcement reinforcments from > surrounding communities to supliment the usual park staff during "High > Motor-head hollidays" > Camping backcountry or BLM you are likely to encounter homeless or > illegals or some of the agricultural underground who grow dope in out of the > way places around that state. Weekends you will see innercity people > invading the countryside with the false idea that they are "all alone" and > can get really silly stupid...They often do just that, and can be pretty > problematic. > I always travel California prepared to deal with confrontation.. > Don Hanson |
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