How Budget Cuts Are Affecting National Park Service Rangers

How budget cuts are affecting National Park Service rangers

FREDERIC J. BROWN // AFP via Getty Images   It’s a perfect fall afternoon in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park and a guided hike of 15 strangers just a few miles beyond the park’s eastern entrance is under way. As the hikers click away with their iPhone cameras, the leader, a bearded 32-year-old named Adam Auerbach, regales them with the park’s history: In 1915, president Woodrow Wilson officially created it with the stroke of his pen. Lob…

How budget cuts are affecting National Park Service rangers | News Channel 3-12

FREDERIC J. BROWN // AFP via Getty Images   It’s a perfect fall afternoon in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park and a guided hike of 15 strangers just a few miles beyond the park’s eastern entrance is under way. As the hikers click away with their iPhone cameras, the leader, a bearded 32-year-old named Adam Auerbach, regales them with the park’s history: In 1915, president Woodrow Wilson officially created it with the stroke of his pen. Lob…