{"id":341,"date":"2006-11-11T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=341"},"modified":"2006-11-11T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:19:14","slug":"park-service-reports-surge-in-violence-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Park Service Reports Surge In Violence Against Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/26\/AR2006062601123.html?referrer=email\">Park Service Reports Surge In Violence Against Rangers<\/a> By Matthew Daly, Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>It is getting more dangerous to be a forest ranger &#8212; and it is not because of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks, threats and lesser fights involving Forest Service workers reached an all-time high last year, according to government documents obtained by a public employees advocacy group. Incidents ranged from gunshots to stalking and verbal abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The agency tally shows 477 such reports in 2005, compared with 88 logged a year earlier. The total in 2003 was 104; in 1995, it was 34. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things like off-road vehicles are taking people into the backcountry to get away from all rules of civilization, and trouble appears to be ensuing,&#8221; said the [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility&#8217;s] executive director, Jeff Ruch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Service Reports Surge In Violence Against Rangers By Matthew Daly, Associated Press It is getting more dangerous to be a forest ranger &#8212; and it is not because of the animals. Attacks, threats and lesser fights involving Forest Service workers reached an all-time high last year, according to government documents obtained by a public &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Park Service Reports Surge In Violence Against Rangers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}