10-01-2014, 09:20 PM
Tom, if you look at this Wikipedia page on the National Park Service Ranger, and scroll down to Law Enforcement and Emergency,
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_...ice_Ranger
You will see that law enforcement is a specific type of Ranger professional class, although various duties may overlap. Some will specialize in education and interpretation, but the law enforcement class Rangers really are Federal Police.
Now I am flashing back to the Yogi Bear cartoons of my youth. ;-). (If you're not familiar, setting was Yellowstone National Park, where Ranger Smith devoted his energy to keeping Yogi and BooBoo from hustling tourists for food and other schemes.)
Kathy
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_...ice_Ranger
You will see that law enforcement is a specific type of Ranger professional class, although various duties may overlap. Some will specialize in education and interpretation, but the law enforcement class Rangers really are Federal Police.
Now I am flashing back to the Yogi Bear cartoons of my youth. ;-). (If you're not familiar, setting was Yellowstone National Park, where Ranger Smith devoted his energy to keeping Yogi and BooBoo from hustling tourists for food and other schemes.)
Kathy