Not a ranger, but the less glamorous job of a park technician responsible for compiling interpretive assesment reports on various BC provincial parks and areas under consideration as provincial parks.

I did natural history field work and other research and compiled and edited data collected by summer park assistants for the assessments. I spent a lot more time in the library and at a desk than I would have preferred, but despite that, I still consider it one of the most fulfilling jobs I've ever had. Also did a short stint as a park naturalist while working there.

I left for basically the same reason as SRS, to become a full time Mom, but I couldn't shake my love and obsession with the outdoors. I apologized a lot to my kids, when they were young, because I spent more time looking under rotting logs, than baking cakes and cookies and keeping a home tidy. At one point, my family presented me with a bumper sticker which read, "My Only Domestic Quality Is That I Live In A House". LOL