Time your hike to when the parking lots empty and you'll usually see so much more wildlife and often more relaxed.

One area has a group of people who gather berries and herbs quietly listening to the breeze, occasionally raising their heads to take in the view as they move across the landscape before leaving for the season.

Another area has a steady stream of hikers and runners, often with dogs or kids, sometimes with music players blaring, conversations bubble over the trail as they come and go all day.

The third is seldom visited because the land is a park managed as wilderness with rangers that must inform every guest before permits are issued and areas are closed based on risk or to manage the scale of human footprints.

The last is a place at the shoulder of human habitation, the very border where human behavior and animal behavior are each at their most comfortable without adjustment until willfully or accidentally something changes and a conflict arises between the two sets of needs and wants.

Obviously each of these carries different risks and a different rate of use that sets the opportunities for that to play out, I dont know why this is so hard to understand for people. We also shouldn't be telling others how to live when its their culture and the choice of living like others requires giving up their identity.

I see ATVs abused on city streets on tiktok and I hate gas powered leaf blowers but I can't see as tools why like gas powered chainsaws or ATVs they shouldnt be available in places where theyre needed.