Beyond the Badge: A Park Ranger's Journey of Duty, Heartbreak, and New Love

  The symbol of a Park Ranger, towering above an incredible expanse of wilderness, tends to bring to mind isolation and peacefulness. But the life of a Law Enforcement Park Ranger is an intense mixture of fierce responsibility, unpredictable danger, and extreme personal sacrifice. In the gripping new book, The Law Enforcement Ranger by Donald E. Starkey, readers are given an all-access ride into this challenging world through the eyes of Dan, a committed ranger whose professional resolve is ruthlessly strained by a roller-coaster and heartbreaking personal life. This is a masterful tale of the ups and downs of a ranger's existence, in which rescuing a lost child may be followed by the struggle to survive emotionally oneself. A Ranger's Duty: Protecting Nature and Its Visitors Dan represents the complex role of the contemporary park service professional. His days are not routine; they are an unscheduled set of calls that demand him to play many different roles. One minute, h...