A Day in the Life of a Park Ranger
Author: Liza N. Burby
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781582735559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the varied tasks and activities of a park ranger at a national park.
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A Park Ranger's Life
Author: Bruce W. Bytnar
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1604943459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a park ranger's life? A wild bear who favors Kentucky Fried Chicken A fugitive wanted in eight states A dog that saves his owner's life Wildland firefighters battling nature and fire A ghost haunting a colonial mansion Hikers who stay lost because they think searchers calling their names are wild animals Being willing to risk your life to make our parks safe and help preserve them for the future These are just a few experiences you will read about in A Park Ranger's Life. Drawn from the thirty-two-year career of National Park Ranger Bruce W. Bytnar, you will discover what it takes to be a park ranger, what threats to visitors and resources they deal with on a daily basis, and what you can do to help protect and preserve our national heritage.
Ranger Confidential
Author: Andrea Lankford
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-04-02
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0762762683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it. In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others’ extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation’s crown jewels—Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali. In these iconic landscapes, where nature and humanity constantly collide, scenery can be as cruel as it is redemptive.
If I Were a Park Ranger
Author: Catherine Stier
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 080753546X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine serving as a park ranger for our U.S. National Parks! If you were a national park ranger, you'd spend every day in one of the most treasured places in America. You'd wear a special uniform, a hat, and a badge—but sometimes you might also need snowshoes or a life jacket. Maybe you'd track the movements of wild animals. You could help scientists make discoveries. You might even be part of a search and rescue team! You'd have an amazing job protecting animals, the environment, and our country's natural and historical heritage, from the wilds of Denali to the Statue of Liberty.
Park Ranger
Author: Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham
Publisher: Vishnu Temple Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780967459547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author joined the National Park Service as a naturalist. In the remote parks she was assigned to, she discovered a ranger must be ready for everything. She gradually became qualified to handle Law Enforcement, Fire, Search and Rescue, medical emergencies and anything else Nature and visitors to the Parks throw at her. Her true stories could be the basis for Nevada Barr's fiction.
Send a Ranger
Author: Tom Habecker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-03-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1493066811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSend a Ranger is the true story of one man’s dream to live and work as a ranger in our national parks. Author Tom Habecker began his 32-year career with the National Park Service as a student intern at Gettysburg National Military Park while earning a degree in park administration at Penn State University. The book details Tom’s progression from novice to journeyman park ranger, working in Yosemite, Glacier, and Denali National Parks. The book is full of exciting adventures, including search and rescue incidents, criminal investigations, grizzly bear maulings, backcountry horse patrols, darting and trapping problem bears, providing advanced emergency medical care, fire-fighting, winter survival, flying in aircraft in mountainous terrain, living in the Alaska wilderness and much more. These accounts are enhanced by verbatim entries from Tom’s daily journals. Written in an informal and sometimes humorous style, the book details the evolution of training, technology, and skills that today’s park rangers must have to perform their challenging job. The book also describes the challenges and rewards of living and raising children in national parks. Follow Tom’s children as they grow up in places most people only dream about. You will learn what it’s like living in a house that receives over 250” of snow, annually cutting six cords of wood for heat, residing in a remote one-room cabin, and driving 130 miles one-way to town in the harsh Alaska winter. Living in a national park offers experiences like no other. Peek behind the scenes and experience the daily life of a national park ranger and his family.
So You Want to Become A Park Ranger?
Author: Richard Boyer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 145001917X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSo You Want To Become a National Park Service Seasonal Interpretative Park Ranger? is for those who want to know the process to become a ranger and to realize the daily experiences of a seasonal interpretative park ranger.
I'm Just a Seasonal
Author: Thomas A. Smith
Publisher: Productivity Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780972911948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the rewards and challenges faced by park rangers every day through the memoirs of a seasonal ranger.
My First Day as a Junior Park Ranger
Author: Jennifer Benito-Kowalski
Publisher: Junior Park Ranger Adventure Kit LLC
Published: 2021-04-19
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781737001010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's Junior Park Ranger Kyler's first day on the job. He's a prairie dog who has spent his whole life in Prairie Dog Town, and now he's in a new place where he doesn't know anyone. Will he make friends? Will he do a good job as a Junior Park Ranger? Join Kyler as he gets to know his new home and the other rangers who look after the park. You'll meet Lyla the owl, a Junior Wildlife Biologist; Jaden the wolf, a Junior Ecologist; Madison the sea lion, a Junior Interpreter; Gianna the vaquita, a Junior Lifeguard; and Tanaya the desert tortoise, an archaeologist.The first in the Junior Park Ranger Adventure Series introduces the various jobs that local, state and national park employees have. Kids will learn what each of these important rangers do to care for the ecosystem and the visitors to the parks.Giving Back: A dollar from each book sold will be donated to a nonprofit that protects and stewards one of the featured parks in our adventures. The nonprofit that will receive donations from My first day as a Junior Park Ranger will be Parks California.What Park Rangers are saying?"As I read My first day as a Junior Park Ranger, I literally felt like I was living that this past two weeks, as the new park employee!! It tells the whole story of a first day at the park. It also really shows the diversity of the "rangers" a park has working at it. The book is absolutely engaging and I already want to a few copies for my nieces and nephews as well my friends' kids. Now, are you able to sell that wholesale? The parks I work at have gift shops. And this book would fill a huge need for younger readers and families" --- Derrick, Assistant Park Manager, Flathead Lake State Park, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 1 "It is a unique and intriguing take on junior rangers. Definitely a different perspective than classic junior ranger stories. Kids will be engaged in the story and enjoy that the main character that they are supposed to identify with is earning his confidence in a new park environment and making friends. I like the light JEDI messaging too." --- Cara, Interpretive Program Manager, California State Parks
The Life of a Black Urban Park Ranger
Author: Darlene Lewis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-10-22
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1387286463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarlene Lewis, Urban Park Ranger takes a walk through her memory of the times she spent just loving nature. Law Enforcement is a major part of any special patrolman and Darlene Lewis was a great asset to gaining compliance in the Parks when needed. The joy of nature is the theme of this book and the many daily jobs made life as a park enforcement officer far from routine. Danger, beauty, activities, peace...this is the life of a ranger.
