The bad part about this incident is that it was actually in a very well cleared area...the park takes great strides to clear dead and diseased trees that may pose a hazard...the tree that fell on this young boy was neither dead nor diseased and there was no lightning or high winds...it was truly a "freak" accident. So, it would be kind of hard to enjoy the outdoors by totally avoiding trees...I guess this just shows that no matter how safe and careful we try to be, and now matter what level of preparedness we try to attain...one just never knows...