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  2. National Park Service ranger - Wikipedia

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    The first Director of the National Park Service, Stephen T. Mather, reflected upon the early park rangers in the US National Parks as follows: They are a fine, earnest, intelligent, and public-spirited body of men, these rangers. Though small in number, their influence is large. Many and long are the duties heaped upon their shoulders.

  3. Betty Reid Soskin - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, she left her state job and became a consultant at the park she helped create before becoming a park ranger with the National Park Service in 2007 at the age of 85. [10] Soskin's duties included conducting park tours and serving as an interpreter, explaining the park's purpose, history, various sites, and museum collections to park ...

  4. Marguerite Lindsley - Wikipedia

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    Jane Marguerite Lindsley (later Marguerite Lindsley Arnold; October 2, 1901 – May 18, 1952) was the first woman to be appointed to a year-round park ranger position in the United States National Park Service. Lindsley had a ten-year career as a ranger and as a ranger-naturalist starting in 1921.

  5. History of the National Park Service - Wikipedia

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    In an effort to reduce poaching and other misuse of the park, the U.S. Army established a fort in the area in 1881 and began park protection, establishing a pattern that would be continued by later park rangers. In 1875, Mackinac National Park was created on a resort

  6. Harry Yount - Wikipedia

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    In Oh, Ranger!, a book published in 1928, Horace Albright, who later became the second director of the National Park Service, wrote that "Harry Yount pointed out in a report that it was impossible for one man to patrol the park. He urged the formation of a ranger force. So Harry Yount is credited with being the father of the ranger service, as ...

  7. Clare Marie Hodges - Wikipedia

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    Clare Marie Hodges was born in Santa Cruz in 1890. [2] She first visited Yosemite Valley at age 14 on a 4-day horse-riding trip with her family/ [3]. Hodges attended and graduated from the San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) where she helped contribute to the herbarium. [4]

  8. Alleged racist rants of Yellowstone park shooter uncovered in ...

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    In a new court filing, federal prosecutors allege the suspect who took a hostage and got into a shootout with Yellowstone National Park rangers in July ranted that he "refuse[s] to fraternize with ...

  9. Women in the National Park Service - Wikipedia

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    One of the other early Yellowstone rangers was Mrs. Cal Peck, who met her husband, a ranger at Yellowstone National Park, when she visited the site as a tourist. The Pecks both went on to work as Park rangers at the Grand Canyon in 1922, where "her patrol is on the north side of the Grant Canyon running into Arizona, amid the most beautiful ...