Sample Articles and Essays

The number of U.S. Park Rangers assigned to our national parks has declined dramatically over the past decades, leaving park visitors, employees, and resources in peril.

The challenges of conservation and land management law enforcement require educating the public, swift response to criminal acts, and constant vigilance.

How many U.S. Park Rangers need to die in the line of duty before much-needed change comes to the National Park Service?

The leadership of the longtime National Park Service employee transformed law enforcement practices, training procedures, and investigative capabilities.

The following poem was submitted by Paul Berkowitz of Grand Canyon, Arizona, for publication in Mandolin Magazine, September 1997.

Evaluating tactics, judgment, or skills in law enforcement and learning from failures, is critical to valid assessment of deadly force incidents.

One of the more annoying and certainly dangerous situations encountered by law enforcement officers is that of transporting unruly prisoners bent on escape or assault by spitting, biting, kicking, hitting, or even inflicting injury upon themselves. Often, this behavior begins only after the suspect is handcuffed and placed in the patrol car for transport, and

Whiskeytown Lake is an area of concurrent Federal jurisdiction. This permits the enforcement of laws and regulations by both Federal and California State/Shasta County law enforcement agencies. For your safety and the safety of other visitors we ask that you obey all laws, including those governing traffic and personal behavior. We want your experience at

To The Editor: It’s time, once again, to re-evaluate our defensive equipment policy. It appears we will be doing away, for the most part, with our duty leather and the handcuffs, mace, ammo pouches, and baton rings that go along with it, as well as the four-inch barrel duty revolver; this upon the pretense that