Every day someone like you becomes a wildland wildfire fighter, a teacher, a trail-builder, a museum curator, or a park ranger. Discover your opportunities in national parks. Come to play. Come to learn. Come to serve. Develop your environmental leadership skills. Find a job. Be the next generation to preserve and protect these great places.
With more than 80% of Americans living in urban areas, urban parks are more important than ever. The father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, said of urban parks:
It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.
Bison stand in sunset silhouette on Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge. One of the main purposes of Fort Niobrara NWR is to provide habitat for Bison.
Junior Ranger Pledge
As a Junior Ranger, I promise to teach others about
what I learned today, explore other parks and historic
sites, and help preserve and protect these places so
future generations can enjoy them.
NPS Photo
A hunter afield, early morning.
Photo by Pat Hagan, USFWS
External Learners are one of the following:
We offer many training opportunities to private, state, not-for-profit and other federal government agencies. Search our Public Catalog to view these opportunities. For information about obtaining a user account or other questions, visit the External Learners page.
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