Video

Future Rangers

Mount Rainier National Park

Transcript

Narrator: It takes a village to maintain and operate a place like Mount Rainier National Park. What role will you play? Who will be the future of Mount Rainier National Park?

Linnea: I'm a future archaeologist and I study the human history of the park.

Gabriel: I'm a future maintenance ranger.

Logan: I am future backcountry ranger and I protect the wilderness.

Ciana: I am a plant ecologist and I plant meadows.

Grayson: I'm a future dispatch ranger and I connect the park.

Dakota & Charlie: We're future mechanics.

Bailey: I'm a future welder.

Danner: I'm a future carpenter. I work with wood.

Sierra: I'm a park superintendent!

Bailey: I weld broken plows.

Gabriel: I work on projects like improving campgrounds.

Adrienne: I'm a future education ranger and I take kids on field trips and help inspire them to care for the animals and the park and not stomp on meadows and just be bad to nature

Ciana: I'm watering the plants so they grow.

Grayson & Sierra: We're park rangers!

Logan: I like going on hikes cause I can see cool stuff and really cool stuff too!

(off camera): What sort of cool stuff?

Logan: Like big ferns, plants, trees, twigs, stumps and all that stuff.

Description

So many different jobs go into making Mount Rainier a National Park! As the National Park Service enters its next century, the future of parks like Mount Rainier will depend on many different types of rangers, from maintenance rangers to archaeologists to interpretive rangers. Will you be a Future Ranger?

Duration

2 minutes, 47 seconds

Credit

NPS

Date Created

03/18/2016

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