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Nation's oldest park ranger considers future
With a can of bear spray on his hip and hearing aids in both ears, Lyle Ruterbories whistles and hums as he tends to this patch of wilderness along the Canadian border. For 20 years, he has been the ambassador, manager, accountant, anthropologist, botanist, historian, traffic cop, landscaper, handyman and rules enforcer of Kintla Lake. He still hauls gravel, mends fences and wields a chain saw to clear fallen trees from the road to the most remote encampment a visitor can drive to in Glacier National Park. But he doesn't overdo it. He is, after all, 93 years old. What's it like, a visitor asks, to be the oldest ranger in Glacier? "Not in Glacier. The whole park system. The oldest working ranger in the whole park system. That includes everything," Ruterbories said. Posted by: Au Auric 2013-10-05 |
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