Hendy is the 2011 recipient of the Harry Yount National Park Ranger Award, a peer-nominated award that's one of the highest honors for a park ranger.
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But the conceit of being a park ranger alone in the forest all day with no one but another park ranger on the radio for company feels particularly relevant to this moment.
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The park ranger tracked it down and shot it dead.
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The only other car there belonged to the park ranger.
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A park ranger is called and extracts him on a snowmobile.
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A park ranger approached me and asked what was so funny.
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The most recent complaint came from a park ranger on March 26.
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Mowgli is essentially one boy's journey of becoming a glorified park ranger.
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Park ranger Rachel Makissa Baraka, 25, was killed trying to defend them.
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He's worn both a park ranger hat and a cowboy hat backwards.
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The tiny staff includes a single park ranger authorized to ticket wrongdoers.
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The group encountered a park ranger at the site of the burn.
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Zack Frank, a 35-year-old National Park ranger is one of them.
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Peter Krause — Graham's real-life boyfriend and Parenthood brother — played a park ranger.
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The boy's mother is a park ranger and was working at the time.
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After talking to a park ranger, we plan some hikes around the rim.
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Heartbreaking photo of park ranger comforting gorilla who lost mother to poachers http://t.
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One female park ranger was "wounded" and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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A national park ranger later notices the bikes chained up after the park closed.
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They stopped a park ranger at the entrance gate to ask about the shutdown.
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"What kind of site do you want to visit?" asked the cheerful park ranger.
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When a park ranger approached the couple, they ran back to the helicopter and fled.
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As a park ranger, Katembo has one of the most dangerous jobs in the region.
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So I'd like to volunteer as a Stonewall park ranger and do some habitat restoration.
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"There is not a spot left for anyone to get," says park ranger Jonathan Manchester.
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"I'm talking to the park ranger; he's a good friend of mine," Mr. Walker said.
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My mom was a park ranger, so I was always very close to the outdoors.
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That's when, according to park ranger Cody Marsh, he saw Seth allegedly lunge at his daughter.
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"We sound like Godzilla coming, so they flee," said Ruth Krc, 24, an interpretive park ranger.
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Mr. Carbery returned to work as a park ranger after taking two months off to recover.
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I moved slightly out of view of a park ranger and got to work taking measurements.
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For this orphaned black rhino, named Kitui, park ranger Elias Mugambi acts as a surrogate parent.
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Then a park ranger caught one scurrying out of a tree that loggers had cut down.
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According to the latest estimates, one park ranger is murdered every four days in trafficking-related killings.
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Danisiewicz said an on-duty park ranger spotted Geer's vehicle based on the alert and called authorities.
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It was there we met a park ranger who happened to be traveling from Utah to Sacramento.
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Baffled, I called William Tweed, the retired Sequoia park ranger, who has also written about the colony.
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We tried to air out the blanket at a picnic and a park ranger yelled at us.
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We finally get our hands on some eclipse glasses thanks to a very helpful park ranger named Stacey.
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Pembrokshire Coast National Park ranger Tom Moses was driving by when he noticed the bees storming her car.
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Hannah Shakeshaft, a park ranger, related an anecdote about Olmsted's visit as if she had witnessed it herself.
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On a recent chilly morning in October, a park ranger named James Mwenda stepped gently into the enclosure.
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A park ranger reportedly saw him kneeling in the bushes and holding boxes with wires and duct tape.
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She had to call the police so that a park ranger could help her get the bus out.
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ISIOLO, KENYA — Anna Phiri was 15 when her mother, a park ranger in Zambia, was murdered by poachers.
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"Christiansted was Hamilton's venue," said William Cissel, a St. Croix historian and former park ranger at Fort Christiansvaern.
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"28 remains unchallenged," Mike Fitz, a seasoned brown bear naturalist and former Katmai National Park ranger, said over email.
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Read about how a former park ranger is helping people realize the beauty of getting lost in the woods.
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A family of four, another hiker and a park ranger carried Snider out of Santa Elena Canyon to safety.
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Being a park ranger can involve everything from law enforcement and keeping the peace to trail and monument interpretation.
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A park ranger quickly provided first aid to the child, a Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District news release said.
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After a rousing performance by the Firebird Balalaika Ensemble, a park ranger conducted a brief tour of the mansion.
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From a former park ranger, here are eight gifts for the adventurers in your life — some simple, and others essential.
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"When it's this ridiculously hot people get out of their car and go 'Absolutely not,'" says park ranger Abby Wines.
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She is now 96 and the oldest active national park ranger in the country — with no plans to slow down.
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Alaska Daily News reported a park ranger shot the bear, but it retreated and rangers are still searching for it.
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I started my federal career as a U.S. National Park ranger, and a memory from 24 years ago remains today.
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"The zoos say it's not theirs," said Dan Tainow, an urban park ranger with the New York City Parks Department.
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But Rick, the park ranger, says that he believes empathy is the most important characteristic for an alpha to have.
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"The land was out of control," said Dean Yibarbuk, a park ranger whose Indigenous elders encouraged him to seek solutions.
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You can talk to a local park ranger or gardener who has experience with and extensive knowledge about the topic.
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He wore a Virunga park ranger uniform and had his green beret tucked into the shoulder of his khaki shirt.
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Park ranger Paul Terry told CNN affiliate WCTI the girl was bitten while swimming at the beach around 12:20 p.m.
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National Park Ranger Frank Hayde told FOX31 the vandalism was reported on May 23 by someone who lives near the site.
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According to the criminal complaint, a Houston park ranger spotted Schneck kneeling in the bushes near the Dowling statue on Saturday.
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But drones can act as a sort of high-tech park ranger, monitoring wide expanses of land to intercept poaching gangs.
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The security guard at Facebook also drives Lyft and works as a park ranger to support his family, The Guardian reports.
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When I worked as a park ranger in Montana and Alaska, I had to become proficient with rifles, shotguns and handguns.
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And in the middle of a busy highway, a park ranger straddled a speckled female bushbuck antelope and slit its throat.
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A furloughed park ranger from New Jersey was rewarded with a $29.5 million lottery jackpot for weathering the country's longest government shutdown.
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The island is home to George, a park ranger, his wife Melissa, teenage son Seth and two young children, Harry and Willa.
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A park ranger on Saturday found the man, Andrew Schneck, stooping down near the statue of a Confederate lieutenant in Hermann Park.
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It also says visitors must report to the national park ranger station before entering, which the group did not do, officials said.
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Shawn Biessel, a 32-year-old park ranger, and his mother were in the lot, a few hundred feet above sea level.
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Still, an overriding influence for Mr. Cantú was his own mother, a former park ranger in the Guadalupe Mountains near El Paso.
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A park ranger to answer questions at a visitor's center — good grief, nobody show this tech to the Department of the Interior.
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The new species is called Chelonoidis donfaustoi in honor of a park ranger, Don Fausto, who worked for four decades to conserve them.
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Later that evening, a park ranger spotted a 2006 Ford Focus matching the Amber Alert description in a local park and alerted police.
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"Park Ranger Betty Soskin is arguably Richmond's most famous resident, and an assault on her is an assault on us all," he wrote.
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In 210, the majority of trafficking-related park ranger fatalities took place in Asia, with the majority of those deaths occurring in India.
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Park ranger Rachel Makissa Baraka, 25, was killed during the kidnapping, which took place near the village of Kibati just north of Goma.
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"I just love him," Debbie Loudermilk, a retired park ranger and a tour guide at the fallout shelter, says, nodding at Vault Boy.
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"This is about holding on to our own humanity," said Shelton Johnson, an African-American park ranger and storyteller in Yosemite National Park.
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One park ranger was killed during the incident in Africa's oldest national park and three other people, including the British citizens, were abducted.
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The tortoise was found by park ranger Jeffeys Malaga and tortoise preservation expert Washington Tapia, members of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI).
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"I've been a park ranger for 22 years now, so I have plenty of experience in shutting the park down," Mr. Gediman said.
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By the time James MacMillan, a park ranger who was also forced to evacuate his home, arrived with his family at 5 a.m.
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I queried the park ranger on duty at the visitor center: Was there any convincing reason we should hike to Guadalupe Peak instead?
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A former Urban Park Ranger turned children's balladeer, Mr. Vladeck adapts country-and-western songs and musical classics, lending them a city slant.
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That's largely thanks to the tireless work of a former park ranger, nature photographer, and artist named Doug Leen (who goes by Ranger Doug).
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Not to be left out, Jason Ritter, who played Graham's Parenthood beau, also made an parallel appearance as a much, much nicer park ranger.
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What you need to know: It's a beautiful book about Abbey's time as a park ranger at Arches National Monument in Utah's Moab desert.
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" The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border Francisco Cantú "The son of a park ranger, Francisco Cantú grew up in the southwest.
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Walker was a longtime surfer who loved nature so much that he often dreamt of leaving Hollywood behind and becoming a park ranger somewhere.
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They believed that the bison was cold and in danger, so they decided to kidnap the animal and bring it to a park ranger.
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An article last Sunday about visiting tourist-heavy sites misstated the surname of the lead park ranger for the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
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While many of us would go all Wicker Man in this situation, a few brave souls—including park ranger Tom Moses—sprung into action.
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Niall O'Neill runs an Irish bar called Pot O' Beer on Sorenson Street, while Ty is the park ranger at King's Falls National Park.
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Schneck's sentencing comes one year after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in the bushes near the Dowling statue on August 19, 2017.
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Image: Kennethhung/Wikimedia Commons This wild scheme would have probably been lost to history had it not been for Arches park ranger Jim Stiles.
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For the 23-year-old park ranger in New York, having only eggs and cheese for breakfast is not the biggest concern at the moment.
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They have a relaxed yet confident sense of authority, like a park ranger or the person who jostles your safety bar on a roller coaster.
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Park ranger Betsy Dinger first began working at the Petersburg National Battlefield nearly 20 years ago, and she built a rapport with descendants of soldiers.
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A park ranger in New York City who was furloughed for weeks during the partial government shutdown won a lottery jackpot worth nearly $30 million.
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Mr. Carbery, a park ranger, had stepped outside his home at sunrise last July 212 to take photos of bears foraging in a cherry tree.
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Just show up at the visitor center, about a 10-minute walk from the campsite, and follow a park ranger through the thick granite walls.
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Over the years, Pierson has worked at nonprofits in Albuquerque, as a park ranger in Yellowstone, and for the United States Forest Service in Arizona.
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"Adios for now…" Before Zuckerberg's visit, Derick Mains, a communications director at Facebook, emailed Glacier National Park ranger Kyle Johnson to pitch suggestions for the trip.
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Back at the RTR, a park ranger opened the morning's lesson by ballparking attendance between 262,2401 and 210,220, a colossal increase from the previous year's 280.
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Then, in late 2011, he spotted a listing on a government website for a seasonal job as an interpretive park ranger at the Flight 113 Memorial.
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My guide, park ranger Ilyse Goldman, countered that on most sunny days you can see a rainbow from that same bridge because of the falls' spray.
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The park ranger that notified Park Service officials about the improper tree-cutting said he faced years of "reprisals," according to reporting by The Washington Post.
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But she does need a permit, which she can't find and the park ranger (Graham's Parenthood co-star and real-life boyfriend, Peter Krause) isn't having it.
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The scenery reminded me of what Big Bend National Park ranger Michael Ryan told us hundreds of miles before we reached this part of the southern border.
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A graduate of Auburn University and Utah State University, Hendy not is a only a park ranger but a certified paramedic, firefighter, aviation manager and swiftwater rescuer.
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In 2003, Sibusiso Emmanuel Vilane, a South African park ranger, became the first black person to summit Mount Everest, according to Himalayan archives that record major climbs.
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And when I was a kid, that was one of the things that I wanted to be — I wanted to be a forest ranger or park ranger.
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One contractor at Facebook, security guard Jiovanny Martinez, must also drive for Lyft and work as a park ranger to support his family, he tells The Guardian.
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Bryce Dallas Howard is the park ranger who learns the story, Robert Redford is her father (who has seen it all), and Oakes Fegley is the boy.
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A week before, I'd called the visitors' center to ask for some tips and was transferred to Patrick Gumman, a longtime park ranger stationed here since 2014.
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"Bears benefitted from the abundance of fish," said ecologist Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at Katmai National Park who now reports on bear activity for explore.org.
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Mittendorff's 2009 Mini Cooper was found by a U.S. Park Ranger Saturday night in a parking lot near a popular hiking spot at Shenandoah National Park, authorities said.
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"Not too many people in there," said Don Riepe, a retired park ranger who now leads the cleanup crew as director at the American Littoral Society's Northeast chapter.
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"We've seen many examples of fully mature bears, even some we'd consider to be old, change their habits," noted Fitz, who is a former Katmai National Park ranger.
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We were only halfway through the pine stand when a park ranger met us, running full speed from the other direction holding the largest gun I'd ever seen.
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The park ranger in charge of the list told me he recently had the sign-up sheet crumpled up and thrown in his face by a frustrated player.
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Bear 747 is the largest and fattest bear that Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at bear-filled Katmai National Park and currently a resident naturalist for explore.
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"We have a giant prison system, the largest in the world, and we are in a unique position to have conversations around incarceration," says Emily Levine, a park ranger.
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But Mr. MacMillan, the park ranger, said that vacationers who had reserved one of the 137 spots on the campgrounds for this weekend would get priority over the evacuees.
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After being told by a park ranger (Parenthood's Jason Ritter) that there's a storm coming so hike at your own risk, she's back in the motel eating freeze-dried meatballs.
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He is also concerned that authorities said a park ranger found the remains, when a local miner told Roman he had found the bones and wanted to collect the reward.
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For Live Burls, they connected with National Park Ranger Jeff Denny and received a permit from the Redwood National Park, which led to several rangers providing access to the trees.
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Holly Webb, whose husband is a national park ranger currently furloughed during the shutdown, has been driving into Yosemite Park to pick up trash left around trails, roads, and campgrounds.
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Not only does the film feature his narration, but there are also shots of the Obamas visiting the park, and the president getting some history lessons from a park ranger.
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At a birthday dinner midway through "Marrow Island," the main character, Lucie Bowen, a well-meaning but fragile journalist, shares fancy burgers and craft beers with her park ranger boyfriend.
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Nothing strange showed up in any of my photographs from that day, and every park ranger I've ask doesn't have an answer for me about what that could have been.
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Scott Gediman, a park ranger and spokesman for the National Park Service, said the last major closing because of fire at Yosemite was in 1990 during the A-rock Fire.
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Kim Heacox, a former park ranger who has written extensively on Muir's time in Alaska, drove me down to the tidal flats to see where his adopted hometown was expanding.
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The paper's authors, who also included a conservation officer and a park ranger, first spotted the motley crew in late December 2018, hanging out near a freshly killed nilgai antelope.
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Something like the B1 could be much more attractive than a Nissan Leaf or a Toyota Prius to a park ranger team with miles of uneven ground to cover every day.
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If you find time at the end of the year, Park Ranger Jim Lewis says the best time to come is during the winter, since that's when the battle was fought.
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Mr Cantú has an eye for the flora and fauna of the desert, perhaps because his mother—a second-generation Mexican-American who disapproves of his work—was a park ranger.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the nation's oldest park ranger, was beaten and robbed in her home early this week and police are asking for help from the community in catching the assailant.
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The 38th president of the US said working as a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park was "one of the greatest summer of my life," according to the Yellowstone Park Foundation.
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And Jamie Richards, a park ranger and spokeswoman for Yosemite National Park, noted that plastic water bottles and cardboard coffee cups (including their plastic lids) frequently show up in the trash.
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However, the killing was photographed and confirmed by rangers as well as former Katmai National Park ranger Mike Fitz, who has returned to the river to report on bear activity for explore.
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The first is that de Blasio is being continually foiled, like a feckless park ranger in a Hanna Barbera cartoon, in his quest to have his staff type out scripted remarks phonetically.
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"Hello, Ranger Jack," one audience member chirped at the beginning of "The Tower," the play about the Donner Party, when we were greeted by an actor playing a park ranger/tour guide.
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A park ranger from the California State Department of Parks and Recreation leads a group of about 35 adults and children on a sunset hike at Saddleback Butte State Park in 1998.
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Forrest Galante, a biologist and host of the Animal Planet show Extinct or Alive, took part in the joint expedition, and was assisted by two scientists, including a Galápagos National Park Ranger.
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Can it be that the nation is so filled with despair that a tiny good news story about a lil' ole lady park ranger should hit a nerve bringing this much attention?
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In December, Mr. Savin, a former military parachutist, pilot and park ranger in Africa, set sail from the Canary Islands, the Spanish archipelago west of Morocco, in the orange vessel he built.
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"Experience our Natural Beauty!" had a wide gorgeous smile from a Liberian park ranger showing off peaceful rain forest lagoons, tented lodges on the beach and real-life Liberian surfers cresting waves.
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And if I can keep my park ranger hat on for a moment longer, let me say that feeding any wildlife — even wildlife on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk — is a bad idea.
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Merry became a park ranger in Yosemite and later in Denali National Park in Alaska, where he oversaw a failed rescue attempt that resulted in the deaths of seven climbers in 1967.
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According to charging documents, a Houston park ranger found Schneck late Saturday night kneeling in front of the monument and holding two small boxes, a bottle of clear fluid, a timer, and wires.
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In 21871, an experienced park ranger, doing surveys near the northwest coast, reported seeing a tiger in the beam of his flashlight; he even had time to count the stripes (there were twelve).
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According to Frank Dean, a former park ranger who lived in the valley for eight years, Yosemite in the winter offers pageants of nature that you don't get the rest of the year.
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"On busy days you're talking 25,000 people on a small island, and 500 a day get to the crown," said Michael Amato, the lead park ranger for the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
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This atmospheric movie seems to be headed somewhere until its second half, when Romy meets Diego (Norman Reedus, from "The Walking Dead"), a park ranger and hard-drinking roughneck with a terminal illness.
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For someone who had just been hit with a ticket by the park ranger for bringing his adorable dogs along for the ride, Kipp Stroden, a slightly sunburnt 40-something, was overwhelmingly positive.
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This year, the theme was camp: She dressed up as a park ranger and told a story about catching frogs with her bare hands on a hiking trip and eating them for dinner.
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Obama handed out free passes to national parks to kids sitting cross-legged on a trail, comically growling at them when they shouted "Go away bears!" as a park ranger had taught them.
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The 41-mile bike route it suggested to the Mono Lake meeting point involved taking a trail out of Yosemite Valley — a trail that, according to an officious park ranger, did not allow bikes.
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Frankfurter is the sixth person to die in the park this year, including two climbers on the well-known granite formation El Capitan, a park ranger, and two hikers, one the famed Half Dome.
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On Lorelai's second attempt to enter into the national park, she comes across another park ranger, played by Krause, whom she tries to persuade to allow her into the park, despite her missing pass.
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Before his career as a lobbyist, Wallace worked for the National Park Service, both as a park ranger right out of college and later as a congressional liaison for NPS during the Reagan administration.
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Pele oversees "any and all volcanic phenomenon: lava flow, steam, fumes, earthquakes," says Bobby Camara, a retired Park Ranger at the vast Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the biggest tourist attraction on Hawaii's Big Island.
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In 2014, photographer Rachel Boillot went to Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau to work for Bob Fulcher, a park ranger who also is a folklorist, naturalist and musician, and who manages Tennessee's Cumberland Trail Scenic Park.
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According to the Daily Mail, he is not only a former paratrooper who served in Africa, he has been a pilot, a park ranger and has been prepping for his trip for many months, now.
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As a boy, Mr. Rowlands, the park ranger, hunted for "bush tucker" after school, catching wild goanna, the native monitor lizards, and snakes to cook over a pit of hot ash like his Aboriginal ancestors.
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Update After the murder of a park ranger and the kidnapping of two British tourists and their driver, the park, a major driver of tourism to the Democratic Republic of Congo, has closed until 2019.
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It had been a comfortable 15 degrees Celsius in Montreal so we were a bit shocked to learn from the park ranger that it had snowed on the top of Mont Mégantic the night before.
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The fireflies in Elkmont, near Gatlinburg, are a part of one of the densest populations of synchronous fireflies, Dana Soehn, a 27-year veteran park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, told Fox News.
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"It's unclear why so many sightings have occurred in the last two weeks, normally there are two to three sightings between May and September each year," Jonathon Stevenson, a Parks Victoria park ranger, explained via email.
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"This is the face of our public land agencies and the people on the front lines," said John Freemuth, a Boise State University professor who studies public lands issues and once worked as a park ranger.
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One woman using the #ShutdownStories hashtag wrote that her husband works as a park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and that the couple has a 4-year-old and a 4-month-old.
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When asked about the people he's met, he describes a retired park ranger, an artist who makes art out of animal bones, a 96-year-old bodyshop owner, a man who planted 30,000 pine trees himself.
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The rest of Australia was so impressed by Queensland's results that it ran a similar campaign in 2013, recruiting for roles including "chief funster", park ranger and taste master, to work in different territories in the country.
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Also known by his character name as Mark Cyr, the 36-year-old actor makes an appearance as park ranger No. 1 that Lorelai comes across on her first day attempting to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.
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However, cars weren't his only love: The documentary also notes that he had a serious passion for surfing, and, according to one of his brothers, would often joke about abandoning Hollywood for life as a park ranger.
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You can get sightings while out on walks, hikes and bike rides, but a wildlife viewing tour — usually led by a park ranger or naturalist — is another way to see and learn more about the local ecosystem.
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Frank Dean, a former park ranger who is head of the Yosemite Conservancy, describes the renovation of the grove as part of an evolution in the way Americans approach the West: from conquest and discovery to preservation.
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That bit of Rossini notwithstanding, this former Urban Park Ranger specializes in the country and western genre, offering his own spins on classics as well as original tunes that celebrate the down-home side of city life.
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Since rangers spotted bear 268 at the river in June 268, the large male has been consistently assertive and confident, explained Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at Katmai National Park and currently a resident naturalist for explore.org.
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Santino then professed his love for his fellow park ranger, Swallow, and serenaded her with "Love is an Open Door," the song his character sang in "Frozen," and the two retire for a romantic getaway at Martha's Vineyard.
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"My thoughts are now with the family of Virunga Park ranger Rachel Makissa Baraka who was killed during the kidnapping, and with the injured driver and the released British nationals as they recover from this traumatic incident," he said.
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Anna Pigeon, the weathered law-enforcement park ranger who gives this long-running series its sturdy backbone, has been recalled from Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and temporarily assigned to the assorted land areas that make up Acadia.
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A helicopter made it to the site early on Monday, and a park ranger used a "short-haul" technique – descending from the hovering aircraft on a secured line – to examine the crash scene, said Park Service spokesman Peter Christian.
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On the morning of May 11, Rachel Masika Baraka, a park ranger, was setting out on a normal day at work in Virunga National Park, the oldest, largest and most biologically diverse park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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She is the daughter of Silvia Ronda of New City, N.Y., and Samuel Ronda of Spring Valley, N.Y. The bride's father is a park ranger in Ramapo, N.Y. Her mother owns a medical billing consulting firm in New City.
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"It's been amazing to once again watch the bears' transformation from lean animals to the roly-poly giants they have become," marveled Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at Katmai National Park and currently a resident naturalist for explore.org.
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Their first game is Firewatch, a mysterious and unique looking adventure about Henry, a park ranger in 22016, alone in the crisp woods hued in the sunset beams Moss is known for, as odd occurrences begin to manifest around him.
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His name is Robert Franz, he is 29, and his title is "interpretive park ranger," which means that his job is to tell the story of what happened in that color-dappled field behind him, again and again and again.
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"I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them," Susan Orlean, writing in her 1998 best-selling book, "The Orchid Thief," asks a park ranger in Florida.
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I came to Reelfoot Lake State Park because it — along with the Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, which covers the northern part of the lake — is the "eagle-watching headquarters for the whole country," according to Warren Douglas, a park ranger.
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But because it's the widespread conversion of the land to monoculture plantations that threatens the orangutan habitat, Dewanto has also become a de facto park ranger, policing the forest where officials don't have enough staff, or willingness, to do it themselves.
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They talked about a private spaceport Camden County officials want to build just west of Cumberland Island, complained about a zealous new park ranger and worried about a plan to rezone a small slice of the island for private development.
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His story, as the current park ranger Shelton Johnson and the historian Brian Shellum told KVPR, is a reminder of the ways in which members of the armed forces helped protect public lands before the Park Service was formally established.
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The gathering is orchestrated by Garner's control-freak, overprotective mom, Kathryn, a classic wheatgerm-y type who quotes NPR and proudly informs the too-friendly park ranger that they've ordered the Groupon rate -- four nights, for eight adults and one kid.
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Most visitors to the park were well-behaved, said John Lauretig, a former park ranger who now runs Friends of Joshua Tree, a nonprofit group that organized a small army of volunteers to help clean the park during the shutdown.
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According to a recent blog post by Maria Brady, a park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park, the park regularly receives packages containing rocks that unscrupulous visitors took from the historic battlefield and, after experiencing sudden onslaughts of misfortune, decided to return.
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"I would characterize a bear's sense of smell as complex and just as important to their lives as sight is to humans," said Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at bear-filled Katmai National Park and currently a resident naturalist for explore.org.
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There may be no better way to understand how the passengers of Flight 93 fought their hijackers and brought their plane down in Shanksville, Pa., killing all aboard, than listening to Robert Franz, a 61-year-old interpretive park ranger at the memorial there.
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One of the stipulations was that I had to be accompanied by a national park ranger the whole time while we were above land and in the water — just to make sure that none of our recording negatively impacted the animals in their natural habitat.
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On Saturday, a Houston man was taken into custody near a monument to Richard W. Dowling, a Confederate commander, in the city's Hermann Park after a park ranger reported finding the man in possession of materials that could be used to make an explosive device.
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Visitors can encounter these animals through a private two-hour wildlife viewing tour with a park ranger (prices start at $200 for up to three people) or go on a self-guided biking or walking wildlife viewing tour using the brochure available at the park's visiting center.
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After listening to a park ranger talk about the sanctuary in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was a co-pastor, the players got out of the pews, formed a circle in front of the podium where King gave his sermons, held hands, closed their eyes and prayed.
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As a park ranger, I cannot look at the photo of a young woman delighted by a baby armadillo without noticing how close its burrowing front claws are to her face — especially when you notice the scratches on the forearm of the man offering her the creature.
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Kameko and Jason Howell Ages: 32 (Kameko) and 40 (Jason)Location: North CarolinaOccupations: Police officer (Kameko) and park ranger (Jason)Household income: Between $75,0003 and $100,000Total spent: $15,000 Kameko: I had to do two HSGs [hysterosalpingograms, which check whether a woman's fallopian tubes are clear], which were $3000 each.
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In his first book, Missing 411 - Western United States & Canada: Unexplained Disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved, Paulides recalls a conversation he claims to have had with a national park ranger: It was a pivotal moment for the author, who is now in his mid-70s.
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The park ranger told me he is "a black belt in verbal karate" but isn't allowed to direct his skills toward the local tennis-playing community per the guidelines set forth during the five days of conflict resolution training he is required to take as a parks department employee.
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One minute reporters are clamoring to chat up Bradley Cooper or ask J. Law about her dress, the next they are presented with a genocide survivor, a soldier ravaged by war, or a Congolese park ranger who risks life and limb to protect the last of an endangered species.
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As a park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California she shares stories of working in a segregated union hall during World War II. The role that has made her a local celebrity, eventually catching the eye of the White House.
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Soon after Ragland died, a park ranger sent the McCrears a letter that was supposed to have a USB that contained footage of Ragland recorded by someone else, but when they opened the envelope, they were heartbroken to find that it appeared as if someone had stolen the thumb drive.
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He is the son of Doreen M. Giglio of Ocean Township, N.J., and James V. Giglio of Neptune, N.J. The groom's father retired as a park ranger at Hartshorne Woods Park in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. The couple met in 2012, when both joined an intramural volleyball team, the Volley Llamas, in New York.
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Wandering elephants aren't an issue in the city, either — when I mentioned that a park ranger had been killed recently in Krueger National Park, elsewhere in South Africa, Abel told me that growing up, one of his friends had been trampled to death by an elephant while walking to school in Dinde.
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The phenomenon, which typically occurs for about two weeks in the South Carolina national park in mid-May or early-June, is a mating ritual for male fireflies competing for the attention of females before their short lives come to an end, Jon Manchester, a park ranger at Congaree National Park, told Fox News.
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Elder, 28, is a former national park ranger, who now serves as the resident naturalist at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the mountain resort of Bachelor Gulch, Avon, CO, where she's equally comfortable tracking bears and hauling gallons of water on her back as she is making daisy chains getting lost in the woods.
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It all starts 999 feet below Donut County, a cute little town filled with the likes of Helen (a park ranger who is also a tiny, snake-averse bear), Roma and Nicky (an older rabbit couple deeply in love), Chef (a cat who runs a disgusting restaurant), and half a dozen other quirky buddies.
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Over the weekend, a selfie involving two gorillas with on-point poses posted by their caretaker Mathieu Shamavu—a park ranger at the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who rescued them when they were babies—went viral real quick, gaining almost 40,000 likes on Instagram and more than 20,000 shares on Facebook.
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The search, using five hundred and eighty cameras capable of taking twenty thousand photos each, was prompted by sightings from two reputable observers, an experienced outdoorsman and a former park ranger, both of whom believed that they had spotted the animal in the nineteen-eighties but had, in the intervening years, been too embarrassed to tell anyone.
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Or, if that's impossible, you've got a meeting to lead tomorrow that's like 20 slides and a whole thicket of appendices, and you know there are going to be sticking points with Important Stakeholders and all you really want to do is, like, apply to become a park ranger and move wherever they tell you to move?
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"During our investigation, the supervisory park ranger admitted to purchasing and distributing the automatic weapons despite knowing that they violated NPS policy; admitted telling rangers who received the automatic rifles not to display them to others; and admitted to, at a minimum, not making it clear to his supervisors that the automatic weapons needed to be converted to semiautomatics," the report said.
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Working as a PEOPLE correspondent for more than three decades, I have covered my share of miraculous stories, from the Oregon park ranger who claimed to have felt an unknown force holding him against a cliff when he should have fallen to his death, to a Colorado woman who said she was inspired to survive after an ATV accident when "angel" dogs from her past appeared and gave her the courage to go on.
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Its children's programs, many of them free (the schedules are on the website), include Family Day at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, where visitors can build a Lego city; an investigation of the Recycling Education Center at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility in Brooklyn; Urban Park Ranger tours and activities at Battery Weed, a 303th-century granite fort on Staten Island; and scavenger hunts at the GallopNYC Sunrise Stables in Queens, where young visitors can draw their favorite horses.
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