The Making of a Ranger - Softcover

Chuck Luttrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979505550 ISBN 13: 9780979505553

Publisher: Vishnu Temple Press, 2013

Synopsis

What do rangers do? How do you get to be a ranger? The short answer: Everything and it isn t easy. Chuck Luttrell thought he knew from watching his family friend, John Riffey, the longtime ranger on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, going about his business every summer. But times have changed and so does a ranger during his or her career. In The Making of a Ranger, Chuck chronicles his postings and the varied tasks he undertakes as law enforcer, fireman, medic, and rescuer whether on lakes, deserts, snow-covered mountains, or back roads. He acknowledges some successes and some failures which invites readers to wonder how they would cope with the various incidents he has faced. The conclusions he comes to about the rest of his Park Service career are not the ones he expected when he set out to master all the skills necessary to protect nature and the park visitors from each other and themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Chuck Luttrell's career in the Park Service has been mostly in parks with lakes but the whole point of being a ranger is to experience nature in all her ways so fire, flying and the backcountry have featured as often as diving and boating. Chuck is the co-author of Heavy Weather Boating Emergencies: What to Do When Everything Goes Wrong

Edition details

• Publisher: Vishnu Temple Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979505550
• ISBN 13: 9780979505553
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 220