Ranger Stories – Page 3 – The Ranger Desk

Why There Are No Stupid Questions to Ask a Park Ranger

Why are there no stupid questions to ask a park ranger? Because the biggest questions provide the biggest opportunities to learn.

I quit the national park service for the same reason I became a ranger in the first place: to find and do what makes me happy.

Naturalist gatekeeping can frighten people away from trying new things. Lets encourage beginners to love what we love, not shame them.

Why I became a Wilderness First Responder: how a scary accident taught me that doing your best is always enough.

My white privilege helped me become a park ranger. I feel safe in nature and in national parks when so many others don’t.

I am often asked how I became a park ranger at US national parks. Here’s how the greatest adventure of my life began.

As a former ranger, I’m often asked how to become a national park ranger. These are my tips for prospective park rangers.

A few years ago in a grad class, a fellow student made a statement that floored me: “LGBTQ people can’t work in national parks.”

Read a former Zion park ranger’s answer to the question of what to do in Zion. Here are five ranger tips for Zion National Park.

In the early days of US national parks, rangers did it all–built trails, fought fires, caught poachers. What do park rangers do today?