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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation AreaChapters in the Junior Ranger Explorer Notebook
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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Junior Park Ranger
Junior Ranger patch

After becoming a junior naturalist, kids can move up to being a Junior Park Ranger by working through a Junior Ranger Explorer Notebook. The notebooks are 16 pages long and have activities about plants, animals, fossils, geology, water resources, sounds, and stargazing, as well as ranger duties, cartography, a map exercise for Millbrook Village and a crossword. 

Kids who finish the Junior Ranger Explorer Notebook get an iron-on cloth patch (above left), a pencil, and an Junior Park Ranger badge.

To become a Junior Park Ranger
1. Pick up the booklet from a visitor center or park headquarters, or contact the park to have one mailed to you.
2. Return the completed booklet to a visitor center to check your answers with a ranger and to get your patch, pencil, and badge!
A young man in colonial uniform, with a musket  

Did You Know?
... that in the 1750s, the northwest border of New Jersey (now Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area) was a frontier of the English colonies. In the French & Indian (Seven Years) War, a string of forts protected these settlements. The sites of seven of these outposts are in the park.
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Last Updated: September 23, 2006 at 16:08 EST