What does a park ranger actually do? A lot more than you know.

• As one of 32 employees at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Josh Scheffler wears a lot of hats.
• Sometimes, Scheffler will spend a whole day tracking Bighorn Canyon’s wild horses.
• Other times, he spends a lot of time in the office coordinating safety checks or writing up proposals for projects years down the line.

Josh Scheffler never knows what the day will bring at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.

“You could be doing plumbing one day and working with horses the next, building a structure the next,” he said. “When it’s a small park, you’re kind of all helping each other out.”

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