The National Park Service (NPS) bestowed the highest honor available to civilians to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author David McCullough on October 4, 2016. The NPS named him an “Honorary National Park Ranger” at a ceremony on the Boston Common. …
Working as a park ranger in Columbia, Missouri is no small task. According to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, the agency manages more than 3,000 acres of park land and helps sustain the operation of over 80 parks, recreation …
At 95 years of age, Betty Reid Soskin serves as the oldest National Park Ranger working full time in the country. This ranger helped design the Rosie the Riveter Park in Redmond, California and has worked there for the last …
Poachers in Iran recently killed three park rangers, further underscoring the rising conflict between the two groups. Although details remain unclear, environmental science news source Mongabay reports: On June 23, park rangers Mohammad Dehqani and Parviz Hormozia were shot and …
Early in May 2016, two tourists were visiting Yellowstone National Park when they saw a baby bison off on its own. The tourists said the baby bison looked cold in the 40 degree weather, so in genuine concern, they loaded …
Flying a drone in a national park is illegal, and it is particularly bad form to fly them over crowds gathered in these parks. Travis R. Sanders did just this at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in April 2015. He flew …
Each year the National Park Traveller’s Club gives an award to an exceptional Ranger who goes beyond the call of their profession and performs with excellence. The National Park Traveller’s Club is an organization that helps American travellers enjoy the …
While protecting their parks is an important part of the job for most park rangers, keeping visitors to their parks safe is equally vital. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation’s most visited national park, protecting nature lovers …
A deadly shootout broke out in the Congo’s Garamba National Park last month after poachers killed three Garamba rangers and a Congolese army colonel. The issue is not unique to Garamba, with similar incidents taking place in the Congo’s Virunga …