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Martin Thornquist <martint+rec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>[ Jon ]
>> NL seemed mostly rural or urban. No backcountry, per se,
>> the national park notwithstanding. Raises a question, perhaps
>> more obvious in NL than elsewhere, but what is western
>> European backcountry?
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>There's a fair bit of backcountry in Scandinavia, if you include that
>in "western Europe". Central/western Europe is pretty densely
>populated though; there are forests, but I'm not sure how wild they
>actually are. Then there's the Alps; you're never that far from
>populated valleys there though. I think I've read that Spain has 1000
>wolves. I believe what is backcountry is a much-debated question.
Do people get attacked by bears, wolves, lions, alligators, with some
frequency?
It is much debated. I think its because they confuse backcountry and
backpacking in forests specifically and forget other wild regions.
One would have to tally all Alpine and Spanish Parks and other legally
designated reserves of various kinds.
Anyways, we can talk in Oct.
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