[PDF] Ranger Confidential eBook

Author : Andrea Lankford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0762762683

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For 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.

Author : Andrea Lankford
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : 9780762752638

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Recounts the experiences of the author while she was a national park ranger in locations across the United States.

Author : Bruce W. Bytnar
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604943459

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What 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.

Author : Jordan Fisher Smith
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618711956

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Smith chronicles his 14 years as a park ranger on a huge tract of government land in the Sierras, illuminating some startling truths about America's wild lands.

Author : Charles R. "Butch" Farabee, Jr.
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2003-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1570984468

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In this celebration of one of America's most enduring symbols, fromer ranger Butch Farabee brielfy revies the evolution of this national symbol.

Author : Andrea Lankford
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1595809856

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Ghosts! Curses! Hoaxes! Unsolved mysteries! Paranormal events! Take a walk on the creepy side of North America's National Parks! Andrea Lankford, a 12-year veteran ranger with the National Park Service, has written a thoroughly investigated yet often tongue-in-cheek guidebook that takes the reader to the scariest, most mysterious places inside North America's National Parks. Lankford shares such eerie tales as John Brown's haunting of Harper's Ferry, the disembodied legs that have been seen running around inside the Mammoth Cave Visitor Center, and the "wailing woman" who roams the trail behind the Grand Canyon Lodge. Lankford also uncovers paranormal activities park visitors have experienced, such as the chupacabra that roams the swamps inside Big Thicket National Preserve and the teenage bigfoot who rolled a park service campground with toilet paper. She also reports on long-forgotten unsolved murders, such as the savage stabbing of a young woman on Yosemite's trail to Mirror Lake, and the execution style shooting of two General Motors executives at Crater Lake. The witnesses to the supernatural occurrences are highly credible people-rangers, park historians, river guides, and the like-and each tale has factual relevance to the cultural or natural history of the park. Haunted Hikes provides readers with all the information they need: for each hike: a "fright factor rating" is listed along with trailhead access information, detailed trail maps, and hike difficulty levels. Most of the haunted sites included in the book can be reached by the average hiker, some are wheelchair accessible, and others are for intrepid backpackers willing to make multi-day treks into wilderness areas. Intriguing photographs of many sites are included. Haunted Hikes is sure to satisfy readers looking for those spine-tingling moments when you begin to wonder if maybe, just maybe, we are not alone.

Author : Andrew Vietze
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628421323

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"A memoir from a long-time ranger at Baxter State Park in Maine"--

Author : Jim Burnett
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781589791916

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In his thirty years with the National Park Service, Jim Burnett has seen it all: boatramp mishaps that have sent cars into the water; skunks in the outhouse and bears at the dumpser; visitors looking for the bridge over the Grand Canyon.

Author : Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham
Publisher : Vishnu Temple Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780967459547

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The 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.

Author : Mark J. Saferstein
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : 9780978710125

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Oh Ranger provides an insider?s view into the most beautiful and culturally significant treasures in America. Oh Ranger is a collection of exciting stories told directly by the experts ? national park rangers. From animal encounters to fire fighting and search and rescue missions, rangers share their most memorable, life changing experiences. This book is a tribute to National park Service employees everywhere and was inspired by the original storybook written in 1928 by Horace Albright, the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. His memory lives on in the heroic actions of all those who proudly wear the instantly recognizable green and grey and flat hat ? the rangers. These are the men and women who work hard to protect and preserve our national parks for the enjoyment of millions of visitors, now and in future generations.Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to support national park education programs and the Employee and Alumni Association of the National Park Service. The original version of ?Oh, Ranger!" was co-authored by Horace Albright and Frank Taylor. Perhaps it's nostalgia that still attracts people to the stories of the adventures and the devotion to the National Park Service, but the image of the green-coated ranger stands tall to this day.Profits form the sale of this book will be donated to support National Park education and interpretive programs and the Employee and Alumni Association.