7/87Number of people killed by animals in Yellowstone National Park since 1975: 3

Yellowstone Park

    Number of people killed by other people: 2

Yellowstone Park

7/89Number of the 698 people who have died in U.S. national parks since 1984 who were killed by animals: 2

U.S. Nat’l Park Service

9/90Estimated number of people per square mile during peak season in the Yosemite Valley: 3,320

U.S. National Park Service/Harper’s research

    Number of people per square mile in Houston: 2,986

Office of Planning and Development (Houston)

9/94Ratio of the size of Ted Turner’s land holdings in the West to the size of Grand Teton National Park: 5:2

Turner Broadcasting (Atlanta)/Harper’s research

6/98Number of cars broken into by bears last year at Yosemite National Park: 889

Yosemite National Park (Yosemite, Calif.)

9/98Percentage of U.S. National Park Service land that is in Alaska: 65

National Park Service (Washington)

12/00Ratio of the number of glaciers in Montana ‘s Glacier National Park in 1850 to the number last year: 4:1

U.S. Geological Survey (West Glacier, Mont.)

9/07Estimated number of barrels of oil that lie under Ecuador’s largest rainforest national park: 920,000,000

Embassy of Ecuador (Washington)