Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks

Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks

For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad g…

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