My favorite Park Ranger uniform is the pants, long-sleeved shirt, “Ike” jacket and cross tie. Is the National Park Service (NPS) unique in the world? For years, the world looked to the U.S. for leadership in managing national parks. Sometime in the mid-1980s, NPS stopped providing advice, assistance and financial help. When I attended the World Congress on National Parks in 1992, other nations wondered out loud why the U.S. had fallen into the background and even embarrassed other countri


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