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Show Back at college, she changed her major to Park Administration. During her senior year she took the Government Entrance Examination and applied for a job viith the National Park Service. Janey realized that competition for the National Park jobs was always fierce, but she wasn't aware that about that time, Congress had granted money for the hiring of ninety new Park Service employees. When viord reached her in September, Janey vias elated. The Park Service wanted to hire her. She vias going to be a park ranger. Shortly after midwinter graduation from the university, Janey went to the Horace Albright Academy in the Grand Canyon vihere she vias one of forty new rangers beginning training. "Our training was three months long," she recalls. "It viasn't so much learning practical skills - they didn't teach us to shoot or ride or climb - it was mostly theories and philosophies of park management. We had eight hours a day of classwork plus a lot of out-of-class assignments, like park planning and field trips." During that time, the ranger-trainees had to decide vihether they vianted to enter the field of interpretation or protection within the Park Service. Protective rangers safeguard both parks and visitors. They fight fires, police the areas, and rescue lost or injured hikers. Interpretive rangers take visitors on nature walks and give the entertaining and informative talks vihich make history and environment come alive to millions of park visitors each year. For one of her class assignments at the Academy, Janey had to prepare and deliver an interpretive talk. |