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The Making of a Ranger: Forty Years With the National Parks

The Making of a Ranger: Forty Years With the National Parks

Lemuel A. Garrison
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"Lon Garrison's autobiography begins with his first job as a Forest Service fire ranger in Alaska in 1929, a time when scientific firefighting techniques were first being applied to American forests. In 1932 he took a seasonal ranger job in Sequoia National Park where he began his forty-year love affair with the National Park Service. It was a glorious and exciting period. The Park Service was a very young and growing agency, staffed by idealists whose mission, purpose, and enthusiasm helped to create the image of the national parks as ‘'the crown jewels of America.”
Lon Garrison grew up. with the Park Service, serving in a variety of roles and places: ranger at Sequoia and Yosemite; chief ranger in the Washington, D.C. office ; assistant superintendent at Glacier and Grand Canyon; superintendent at Hopewell Village National Historic Site, at Big Bend, and at Yellowstone; regional director of the Midwest and Northeast divisions; and finally as the first director of the Albright Canyon National Park.
Over the years he has authored over 250 articles on the outdoors, the National Park Service, on travel, and on humor, all of which have reflected his reverence for life and for nature, and his instinctive communion with such wonders as the Sherman Tree, Tokopah Falls, J O Pass, Yosemite Falls, the Grizzly Giant, the Iron Master’s House, Chief Mountain, Bright Angel Creek, Boquillas Canyon, the Sierra del Carmen, and Old Faithful. This book records the amazement, wonder, and joy of those forty years."
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Howe Brothers
Release
July 01, 1983
ISBN
0935704183
ISBN 13
9780935704181

The Making of a Ranger: Forty Years With the National Parks

Lemuel A. Garrison
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
"Lon Garrison's autobiography begins with his first job as a Forest Service fire ranger in Alaska in 1929, a time when scientific firefighting techniques were first being applied to American forests. In 1932 he took a seasonal ranger job in Sequoia National Park where he began his forty-year love affair with the National Park Service. It was a glorious and exciting period. The Park Service was a very young and growing agency, staffed by idealists whose mission, purpose, and enthusiasm helped to create the image of the national parks as ‘'the crown jewels of America.”
Lon Garrison grew up. with the Park Service, serving in a variety of roles and places: ranger at Sequoia and Yosemite; chief ranger in the Washington, D.C. office ; assistant superintendent at Glacier and Grand Canyon; superintendent at Hopewell Village National Historic Site, at Big Bend, and at Yellowstone; regional director of the Midwest and Northeast divisions; and finally as the first director of the Albright Canyon National Park.
Over the years he has authored over 250 articles on the outdoors, the National Park Service, on travel, and on humor, all of which have reflected his reverence for life and for nature, and his instinctive communion with such wonders as the Sherman Tree, Tokopah Falls, J O Pass, Yosemite Falls, the Grizzly Giant, the Iron Master’s House, Chief Mountain, Bright Angel Creek, Boquillas Canyon, the Sierra del Carmen, and Old Faithful. This book records the amazement, wonder, and joy of those forty years."
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Howe Brothers
Release
July 01, 1983
ISBN
0935704183
ISBN 13
9780935704181

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