The old truck has a second flag,
Care to guess this outstanding NPS community event… We are very proud to promote our National Parks
and recognize the outstanding service given by our rangers.
1st person to name the event with some old history to educate us gets a camp tool.
Be safe
This neat event was celebrated in 2007,
I will take a stab at it…how about World Ranger Day?
2007 was the inaugural event.
It pays tribute to rangers around the world that protect our national resources.
And also commemorates those rangers killed or hurt in the line of duty.
It is also the anniversary of the International Ranger Federation.
http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=5681&urlarea=npsnews
Am I close?
Brian
Nope. but that is so nice, how about sending me your address and I will get one out to your anyway…
Now focus on the upper flag their lies another big hint… Need the information with it like Brian has given.
Thanks Brian!
[b]Just a SWAG:
The National Park Service’s Junior Ranger program introduces young people to America’s national parks and historic sites.[/b] Through the program, which currently operates across the country in 297 of our National Parks and on the Internet at www.webrangers.com, Junior Rangers learn lessons about history, culture, and science, as well as respect for nature and an appreciation for our role in protecting it.
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[li]As First Lady, Mrs. Bush joins park rangers and parents in recognizing children who have successfully completed the Junior Ranger program. Each year, more than 425,000 children and their families participate in Junior Ranger activities to explore the parks and earn their Junior Ranger badge.[/li][/ul]
UJ nope but so cool, but send me your address… thanks for the informational research… 
another hint:
it is a YNP commemorative flag celebrating ? what could it be, look close
big and yellow
Proclamation 6325 – National Park Week, 1991
1991-08-21
By the President of the United States
of America
A Proclamation
The founding of our magnificent Yellowstone National Park in 1872 not only marked an important milestone in the history of American conservationism but also inspired a worldwide movement to set aside certain lands for the preservation of their unique scenic value and natural resources. Today more than 100 countries boast some 1,200 national parks or equivalent preserves.
To help protect the scenery, wildlife, and historic sites that are found throughout our National Park System, the Congress established the National Park Service on August 25, 1916. The National Park Service is responsible for managing the lands in its care ``in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.‘’ It is a noble and important task because our national parks are more than scenic preserves. As the renowned conservationist and civic leader, J. Horace McFarland, observed:
The parks are the Nation’s pleasure grounds and the Nation’s restoring places. . . . [they] are an American idea; it is one thing we have that has not been imported. . . . These great parks are, in the highest degree, as they stand today, a sheer expression of democracy.
Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, the National Park Service has helped to lead the way in protecting America’s natural resources and cultural and historic treasures. The Service holds in trust for the American people such riches as the awe-inspiring vistas of the Grand Canyon, the sublime cliffs and forests of Yosemite, the hallowed ground of Gettysburg, the rugged beauty of Acadia, and the towering majesty of our Statue of Liberty. It is estimated that more than 250 million people from throughout the United States and around the world will visit these and other national parks this year.
The National Park Service will celebrate its 75th anniversary with programs designed to focus attention on the inestimable value of our national parks and on the need for their preservation. In recognition of this anniversary, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 179, has designated the week beginning August 25, 1991, as ``National Park Week’’ and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this week.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of August 25 through August 31, 1991, as National Park Week. I invite all Americans, as well as our friends around the world, to participate in events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the National Park Service.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
George Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:39 p.m., August 22, 1991]
Note: The Office of the Press Secretary released the proclamation on August 22 and it was published in the Federal Register on August 26.
In the last week, my kids have earned 7 badges, with at least 4 more to go before we get home
Steve, send maodiver’s kid the camping tool, he will make much better use of it than I will. I quit camping when they kicked me out of the Army National Guard, they wouldn’t let me keep a GP Medium tent.
I wish they would start a Sr. Ranger program, I would love to be ranger on the Chattahoochee River here. I would have a good excuse to go fishing after work, I would already be there.
Will do UJ
Hey maodiver, How many kids you got? send me your address…
Steve
Seven badges = seven kids
send me your address,
Was National Park Week correct?
2 kids. Went to 15 national parks, rec areas, and monuments, over 5300 miles. With 11 junior ranger badges each. They enjoyed the parks
In case you are counting…
Grand Canyon (North Rim), Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Glen Canyon, Natural Bridges, Aztec, Mesa Verde, Arches, Canyonlands, Dinosaur, Rocky Mountain, Mount Rushmore, Devil’s Tower, Yellowstone.
addy in your PM
They have all kinds of people at all the parks who are “senior rangers”, UJ. They are called Volunteers, and every one I talked to (a lot), seemed really really happy doing what they were doing.
ann the answer is:
http://www.yellowstonegallery.com/news.php?id=5
got the addresses as soon as I return home I will get the tools out to those who played along
be safe , enjoy and support our national parks…
Dang…and I saw those things this summer too. They remind me of the “Jammers” of Glacier National Park.
Side note…
Rangers at Yellowstone say go see Glacier now, as it will likely be Glacier-less National Park in less than 20 years.
