Hey, folks, this episode is a great example as to why we have, you know, a, why we like listener feedback.

I had someone reach out and say, hey, I'd love to have a park ranger on or a retired park ranger, a career park ranger.

And so someone sent that over.

And not long after that, I was in touch with Dallas here, who was a retired U.S.

park ranger, national park ranger.

And he was in the National Park Service from 1968 to 1998.

And by the way, this is a throwback Thursday episode from an episode that came out in 2020,

but absolutely worth a re-listen.

And his duties consisted of visitor and resource protection, structural and wildland fire protection,

basically law enforcement all the way up to

search and rescue, basically everything. He has done so much in the National Park Service and been

to so many places from east to west coast, from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to

Yosemite, Death Valley, Green Canyon, the Teton's, Lassen Volcanic, Glacier, gosh, what a Yellowstone, all of those.

And when he retired in 1998, he's been doing, you know, voluntary work ever since as well.

And I got to talk to him. He's in Colorado now in the mountains in Breckenridge, and he's still going at it,

still doing awesome things. And so it was a pleasure to get to talk to him. I don't think there's

like places to follow up with him or to chat because he's not on social media, but it was an

awesome conversation. I hope it inspires you to do something. I am not in the park service. I wish I was,

but I didn't take that career path, and it's kind of, kind of probably too late for me now.

But I am enjoying it and supporting from a peripheral role, which, you know, so never feel like

it's too late to do something really fun with your career and your life. There's so many ways to get involved in, you know, being a park ranger.

But if you have that chance, gosh, and you want to do that and you're interested, start

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