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The NPS reports that park personnel numbers range from seven employees at the smallest facility to 630 at Yellowstone National Park during peak season.
Competition for jobs is keen.
National Park Service park rangers work in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
More than half of such jobs are located east of the Mississippi River, both indoors and outdoors, depending on the situation.
Although the National Park Service tries to take geographic preferences into account, rangers may be assigned to several different parts of the country during their careers.
The National Park Service preserves natural and cultural resources for the enjoyment and education of visitors. The Park Service, which was established in 1916, employs people as park rangers, archaeologists, conservationists, educators, historic preservationists, park police, and museum staff. Today, national park sites exist everywhere from Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, to Ellis Island in New York Harbor, to Glacier National Park on the border with Canada in Montana, to Big Bend National Park on the border with Mexico in Texas, to Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, to Haleakala National Park in Hawaii, among others. The National Park Service, which oversees some 84 million acres of land across the country, played host to more than 271 million visits in 2005. The Park Service is one of the agencies hardest hit by the current federal budget crunch, and it’s facing some fairly drastic cuts. Park services have been reduced, maintenance is suffering, and there are fewer rangers policing these precious areas.