Pic Your Park

You are my second family, and I am grateful and humbled to have passed 42 years working with you, meeting you, telling you stories, and hearing your adventures. It's an ongoing odyssey!

Thank you for the highly important, sometimes stressful work that you do. Thank you for caring and keeping up the good fight. It matters. Every bit of it matters. For those who believe the Earth and its creatures are doomed anyways, that it’s too late, that we cannot override or change the greedy and selfish- Why not be kind? Why not love and nurture and reduce harm while we’re still here? Why not try?

So far, I have been lucky enough to visit over a dozen National Parks, and I am always blown away by how uniquely beautiful each one is. Every Ranger Station is staffed with amazing people to help guide you on your journey to explore. The Ranger talks are informative, and a great way to learn about the park. It's impressive how clean, and we'll maintained all the parks I have visited are, especially given how vast, and also crowded some are. That's a true credit to all the dedicated and wonderful people who work for the Park Services.

To all four of you awesome park rangers: our already amazing time in nature was made even more fun in early September with your talks…Grant’s Big Stump knowledge, Cassie’s informative and humorous bat talk, Skyler’s Congress loop stroll got us a bear sighting, and Brett’s north grove walk and talk about the lifecycle of the forest was excellent!). You all (Moro) rock! Paul Van de Riet

Thank you for all you do to protect our wonderful treasures and provide lifetime memories. I have always looked up to the Rangers and other park staff since I was 7 and my family took a journey to Yellowstone, Zion and the Grand Canyon one summer in the early 1960s in our blue 1954 Dodge sedan. What memories! Thank you and all the preceeding Rangers and staff for your dedication and commitment to these special places.

Thank you for the job you do so well! I have enjoyed a number of our parks and delighted many times in the wonders & breath taking bueaty of nature of each & every one and the love of nature each time from the many Rangers & Park employees that have added their own personal touch in words & deeds of welcome & help each time, thank you for each one & what you do!!!