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(More customer reviews)I definitely am not a book critic, but as a person who has a personal relationship with one of the individuals whose life with the Park Service is described by Lankford, I have to say that I believe she has written an outstanding book that combines the experiences of rangers with "hard" data and her personal views. The compassion, commitment and community of the ranger community is evident throughout the entire book. It is, indeed, unfortunate that those as talented as Lankford suffer from burn out, but I hope she knows that she has given much to so many....and that, as my son tells me, you can't fix everything.
This is a must read for anyone who at times may not appreciate that every day is a gift and that the young can and do touch the lives of many.
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The real stories behind the scenery of America's national parks For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes.
Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others' extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation's crown jewels-Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali. In these iconic landscapes, where nature and humanity constantly collide, scenery can be as cruel as it is redemptive.
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