The Ranger's Life
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smokey Bear hat—a park-ranger style, by the way, that was introduced by the first generation of national park rangers, the Buffalo Soldiers black Calvary regiment, who began duty as Yosemite's park rangers in 1899. With new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver and a historical look at the Civilian Conservation Corps that was created to serve America's national parks back in the last Great Depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California. |
| 0:11.2 | Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice on the desert |
| 0:28.7 | And on a warm evening like tonight, |
| 0:35.1 | It's the best time of day to be taking a walk in the desert. |
| 0:40.3 | Just watch your step. |
| 0:43.3 | It's still warm enough for the serpents to be out and about. |
| 0:53.3 | A lot of what we all love about the desert is protected and served by that one branch of law enforcement people mostly still have good feelings about. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm talking about the Desert Ranger,, the park ranger, the forest ranger, the interpretive ranger, the ranger. |
| 1:19.5 | The ranger. |
| 1:21.5 | Now I'm sure not going to apologize for any rangers, especially over on the law enforcement side, |
| 1:32.6 | who have misbehaved or gotten in somebody's face, ruined somebody's visit to a national park for no reason. |
| 1:45.2 | Basically, any ranger who should have been a regular cop. |
| 1:52.4 | Now, in the old days, there were no law enforcement rangers. |
| 1:58.3 | There were only rangers. |
| 2:07.6 | And their duty was to know the land, know the animals, know the native plants, know the native tribes, |
| 2:13.6 | the trails and the watering holes, the birds and the bees. |
| 2:22.3 | If some scoffla went up to Yosemite and tried to take something that did not belong to them, |
| 2:31.7 | well sure, the ranger was supposed to prevent it. |
| 2:40.4 | Now, because we get some rough customers in the West now and then, |
| 2:46.4 | we've had some rangers you would not want to mess around with. |
| 2:51.1 | Like the Buffalo soldiers, who served at Yosemite, |
| 2:59.6 | also at Sequoia and Kings Canyon, |
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