Park Guide – The Ranger Desk

National Park Designations: They’re All Real Parks To Me

National park vs national historical park or national monument–what’s the difference? As a former park ranger, they’re all real parks to me.

The Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the US Forest Service. Here’s why that should matter to national park supporters.

Those of us who support national parks say that we are protecting them, but I often think that they are doing just as much to protect us.

Times are hard for America’s national park rangers; they’ve been hard for years. So what made that job worthwhile for me, even in hard times?

Rights are not won and then forever granted. Every generation will have to fight for its rights anew. That work is a gift, not a burden.

The US Secretary of the Interior recently ordered more federal lands to be opened for hunting. Here’s why hunting would harm national parks.

In the last year, America’s public lands have been under attack from the Trump Administration, but now finally some good news.

America’s public lands have the popularity President Trump wishes he had. Here are five ways they are more popular than him and his policies.

The Trump Administration wants to steal public lands. They mistreat federal workers who protect those lands with one goal: to make them quit.

America is divided. Let’s create a modern national service program that would unite us in a common goal–protecting our public lands.