Interview with a Park Ranger
Interview with a Park Ranger
The person I ma going to interview is a Park Ranger. A park ranger starts his/her day by checking on certain areas of the park to make sure there are no fires or hurt wild life. Late then ranger will help people get around, enforce park rules and regulations. If a person is hurt a ranger will escort the person to first aid. Also park rangers must warn campers about potentially dangerous animals in the area, and even may have to chase animals away from campers and visitors. Some other responsibilities a park ranger has is to clean up, put out forest fires, help injured people or animals ands even round up wildlife if they are dangerously close to people. A park ranger is like the cop for the area, all rangers must carry a gun and enforce laws if people break them in any way. Forest Fires are very difficult to handle, park rangers are always on call in case this happens or any other kind of disaster that may occur such ass animal attacks, illegal hunters, and injured wild life.
The education/training required to become a park ranger is training in forestry, because a ranger has to know a lot about the nature around him/her. Also to be a park ranger you have to take fire science so that they will know different methods of putting out dangerous fires in the park. They also will need to know a little about life science so they can help the wildlife in the area get along with the people. A park ranger must have basic medical training so that he/she will know how to help injured people or animals. Rangers must have at least 4 years of college and they will need to have a driver’s license that shows that they know how to operate an off road vehicle
To become a good park ranger other experiences that would be helpful would be a vet assistant, so you could have experience with animals and there behavior. You could also volunteer to plant trees at a local park that way you will have experience and knowledge about plants and trees. Another good experience would be to take a course in first aid so you will know how to help injured people in the park or a wounded animal. You should also take fire science so you will...