Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they can remember. Ironically, Oliver, who grew up in Houston, is the son of a Westinghouse executive who sold nuclear reactors to utilities. Oliver always respected his father but early on was determined to follow a different career path. By the fourth grade he wanted to be a forest ranger and was learning to play the guitar. "I couldn't tell whether I wanted to be Smokey the Bear or Chuck Berry," says Oliver, "and eventually I found I could do both...
...days later at prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks, others as porters, assigned to lug the ammunition, mosquito netting and axes for cutting off tusks. Those who cross their path, be they ranger or tourist, risk death...
...open-range cattle operations owned by German immigrant Conrad Kohrs. The ranch ran herds on more than 10 million acres in four states and Alberta, an area nearly the size of Switzerland. "Grant was the last mountain man, and Kohrs the first cattle baron," says Lyndel Meikle, a park ranger who has spent twelve years studying the National Historic Site. When the Park Service took over in 1972, the 23-room ranch house was festooned with Victorian trappings and family photographs, just as it had been almost a century before. It still is. So far, curators have cataloged...
...fire (9). Yellowstone's best-known residents, 200 or so grizzlies, may have been reduced by a total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate a crucial source of prehibernation protein, the whitebark pine nut. Though less than 20% of the whitebark pine trees...
...Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles released a poll: If you could have your dream job, it asked, what would it be? The most popular choice among men was to own or manage their own company, followed by being a professional athlete, the head of a large corporation, a forest ranger and a test pilot. The favorite among women? To own and manage their own business, but in their case followed by tour guide, flight attendant, novelist and photographer...