Talk:National Park Service ranger

Park Ranger Vs. US National Park Ranger
Based on the discussion Park Ranger this page was created using the US specific content in that article. Ryan.mco (talk) 17:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

History
The history section is very very short, and neglects to mention any of the notable or infamous NPS rangers. This section also lacks any reference to Army patrols, and early non-governmental guards. Ryan.mco (talk) 07:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Disciplines or Types of Ranger
The giant section with bullet pointed descriptions of the types of rangers should be split into subsections for each specialty. Ryan.mco (talk) 07:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC). It comes off that this page was written by a protection ranger(s) as it goes on about the law enforcement/protection but glosses over the other type(s) of ranger.

"Law Enforcement Agency" InfoBox removed
The National Park Ranger is a resource manager, not simply a law enforecement officer. See the OPM description in the article for more. For context, consider the armed forces, which maintain a police force (MP, SP, AP, etc). Nevertheless, the primary mission of the armed forces is not "law enforcement", and those in the police force are still soldiers, as those tasked with law enforcement duties in the NPS are still rangers. The MPs etc. purpose is to support national defense, as the NPS law enforcement practitioner's purpose is to protect the resources, not simply "enforce laws". Shoreranger (talk) 13:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

US National Park Ranger
I've read all of the discussions here and at Park Ranger, but I have a query about the title of this article. I see it was originally US National Park Ranger, but was moved in 2008 for reasons I can't find. This article is extremely US specific for a title without US at the front - countries around the world have National Parks and employ Rangers to manage them. Might I propose then that this is moved back to US National Park Ranger, leaving the current title separate in the hope that one day it may be developed into an international article (I might even do it myself one day). I have no problem with a US specific article on NP Rangers, but the title should fit the contents. Otherwise this article will probably need a Worldview tag (which is exactly what this article was created to avoid!). Cheers, Ranger Steve (talk) 14:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I've moved the article to National Park Service Ranger so that a) it mentions the correct authority in the title and b) it is specific to a country and therefore doesn't need to worry about a worldview tag. Ranger Steve (talk) 12:34, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Park Technician
During the 1970s and 1980s, and perhaps starting in the 1960s, many uniformed NPS personnel were actually titled Park Technicians, although to the general public they were indistinguishable from actual Park Rangers. In general, tech were they ones who did the actually day to day public contact, while the rangers were management, although this was not hard and fast, especially in units with small staff, or in off-season. I have not maintained contact with the NPS and there is no information that I can find about this on their website, so I don't know if this is still true or not. However, I think that this should be mentioned, at least as part of the history. Wschart (talk) 17:36, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

US Citizenship Ceremonies
There is a photo in the article with the caption "Park Rangers presiding over US Citizenship Ceremony". This function of the park rangers is not mentioned in the article itself. Is this common? Do they do it formally or only upon request? What's the dynamic there? Were they really residing or just guests officials? The photo raises more questions than the article answers. Jason Quinn (talk) 11:35, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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