@@DigitalENCOMthat is incorrect. For law enforcement, yes. But there are many different types of rangers that aren’t LE or do limited LE that doesn’t involve arresting people/carrying a gun (which does require you to be 21).
Fucking A man, dream job. Upkeep the facilities, checking if shits straight, battling nature/humanmade failures, making dirt roads less shit, listening to crazy cat calls!! Hell yeah
I ask÷ &m if he has come across any cryptids out there ,he can't really say anything or bye bye job , I'm referring to Sabe / Sasquatch/ Bigfoot or Dogman ,wearwolf? Let's see if my comment gets a heart ❤ then I'll know he's in the club of no return!!! Not a fun club to be a part of ,PTSD is no joke .
@@meredithaherntamilio4553 I replied this morning stating that I hadn't seen anything and I've asked others. I promise you I wouldn't lose my job if I told someone I saw a Bigfoot lol. I've literally yelled into the wilderness challenging Bigfoot to a fight and he didn't show so that shows you what a tough guy he is 🤣. If anyone has Bigfoot's contact info, feel free to let him know I'm trying to square up!
Just found your channel. I love it. I wish I could and would have pursued a position as a Ranger instead of getting involved in the family business. I respect what you do as I am always out in the thick of it on the weekends. Freshly subscribed and can't wait to have time to check out more videos. Take care out there and keep living that dream!
Saw your reddit post. Thanks for sharing. This seems like a great job for someone who's comfortable with their own company, and doesn't want someone looking over their shoulder. But that's all the more reason you should rethink going out when you hear a big cat, but can't see it. 😰 Liked, subbed and checking out your other vids. All the best. ✌🙂
Thanks for seeing it on RUclips! It looks like I’m way out there but I was max 100 feet from my door in that shot and the growling was still far enough that I could have easily walked inside IF I saw it. But I ran in to get to my loft that is the only 2nd story part of the house. It has windows that look deep into wilderness and I ran in to see if I could spot him from there. The spot where I put my hand in the paw print though, that’s 15 feet from the porch! I walked around at night pretty close to the house for one of the Reddit streams but I had noise makers and never went anywhere I felt had enough cover for one to attack. Would I recommend any of that to anyone? Absolutely not lol
I'm a disabled vet but still youngish at 25, and I think I want to get a forestry degree with my GI bill. I get $29,973 a year as compensation for my service related injuries so I'd be able to live comfortably, and my wife is about to become a teachers aid with the plan of becoming a teacher. We plan to build an off grid property with a well and solar. Live out in the desert, have some animals, maybe a few horses, plant an orchard and garden, work in the parks, take my kids out doing stuff outside.
I love this! I plan on becoming a ranger. My boyfriend will be getting out of the military in 2 years and we plan on living off grid too! Good luck to you!
My family is from Barstow, so i have a love for the deep desert that comes from my bones. Thank you for helping preserve that desert wildness for the next generation
Hey I’m glad this motivated you! I’ve done a ton of different things at work since then, tons of fun. I’ve talked to a lot of people in your age group that are interested in the outdoors and jobs are opening more and more. It took me until my 30s to figure it out!
It seems like a nice life. I've always lived in the north east but I've always felt like the south west would be a wonderful place to live. Being a part of a restoration/conservation effort would be amazing as well.
I think wherever we grew up we’d like to experience the opposite. I love the desert but Summer is a little tough. I love changing it up and driving up into the forests not too far away!
Stay hydrated please 🙏🏾 self-care is the best care! Becoming a park ranger is one of my many dreams. I am in flat land Florida but that is temporary. The parks are just as nice here too! 😆
Always do, and thanks for the kind words! I was in holding pattern for years prior to this so I'm sure your temporary situation will lead you down the right path!
Sad part is I am a cop and you would have to make as much as a yellowstone park ranger just to make the minimum pay a cop makes in my state.. Dream jobs dont pay good, the best part comes from doing what you love.
All I have to say is you better do this while your young because the pay doesnt support a family or even having a kid. Its a great job if you love the outdoors and being active. But you work part time unless your in a place where you can have a year round park like yellowstone or you are at a park that is close enough that you can work other park in winter time. Some parks are year round. But 60% of them are closed for winter time. Be smart start it at 21 and work your way up into a year round spot.
May I ask what kind of ranger you are? I want to pursue a career as a federal law enforcement ranger but what you do as a ranger looks vastly different than the ranger position I just mentioned lol. Side note: I also served as a wildland firefighter last summer and I noticed the heli in the intro clip which looked like it had a helicopter bucket attached to it.. do you also get to work with the firefighters or what exactly was that heli doing lol, curious to know.
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to continue watching and live vicariously through you. My favorite author is Edward Abbey and he has an excellent book called Desert Solitaire. The book is about his time as a desert park ranger.
Yes I need to actually read it all. My now boss gave me the tip that they usually ask about Desert Solitaire when you get hired and he really wanted me. So an hour before my interview I'm listening to snippets to try and have something to say. They did bring up books but when I started talking about Steinbeck they loved that and Edward Abbey wasn't mentioned. I actually cracked it open recently in Hawaii from a vacation paid for years ago but delayed to to covid. I really appreciated what he said in the intro about how in the desert every plant seems to grow with the other plants giving it space, like every living thing has it's own little spot to be itself. It was a contrast I appreciated, I had traveled very little and being in Hawaii I was amazed how much the plants grew on top of each other, to the point you couldn't see a tree trunk. It was something cool to take notice of and read in the midst of being in a totally opposite climate. Steinbeck talks more about Northern California which I love but one of my favorite lines of his is about life in the desert. It goes in part, "If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life. And if that should transpire, unwanted places like the desert might be the harsh mother of repopulation. For the inhabitants of the desert are well trained and well armed against desolation. Even our own misguided species might re-emerge from the desert. The lone man and his sun-toughened wife who cling to the shade in an unfruitful and uncoveted place might, with their brothers in arms- the coyote, the jackrabbit, the horned toad, the rattlesnake, together with a host of armored insects - these trained and tested fragments of life might well be the last hope of life against non-life. The desert has mothered magic things before this.
Went to school wanting to do this type of work but never actually ended up doing it. Whats your favorite naturalist fact about the area of desert you live in?
That's a good question that is hard for me to answer. I'd say it more like this. What I find most interesting is that human habitation existed here 10,000 years ago. Other rangers have found beads right by where I now live. We have petroglyphs and mortar stones that you can spot if you look long enough on the hillsides I think the geography is very cool because this area was and is a major riprarian corridor, but also heavy in volcanic activity. So you have this mix of black lava rock, then you have the hardened rock that eventually came to the surface (sorry not a geologist), but you also have this history of major flooding that also helped shaped these rock formations. After a good rain certain spots have water shooting out of the ground a couple inches as the water drains through the rock and exits where it can, building up speed as it comes down the hill. It's really cool to now live in an area of the desert that gets snow. I have always lived in the desert but snow was not something we saw unless we took a trip.
Yes. And I asked they same thing when they said its part of the job, they laughed and said of course! I get to treat it like I'm renting. So I can have friends over, family, I'm getting a cat. The house I get to live in is the first thing our organization did about 30 years ago. A guy built the house that I am living in, he lead a massive restoration effort that hauled like 30 dump trucks with of cars, parts, scraps, junk, trash etc. If it weren't for him this place wouldn't look like it does. Then he wanted to really do this big and expand this area so somebody stepped up to fund expanding and protecting and now we have A LOT of preserves/reserves. The man who built this house is our head guy, and the person who helped fund expansion told him he'd help, just don't charge anyone to use the land, and we havent.
Volunteered in a fire tower, took a class in conservation, kept the outdoors in mind as often as possible. Had pictures of the outdoors in my cubicle at the old job and hiking a lot to keep it in mind. Came back to my old job after some time off and a vacation up north and said F this. Applied for a position nearby and eventually got it. Look into non-profits and other private organizations if you don’t care about the NPS title. I don’t work for NPS.
It just depends on where you want to work. Different agencies have different requirements and private organizations will have more flexibility. I've taken into to conservation of natural resources, a lab for the class, intro to land management, and this semester I'll be taking classes on different types of animals.
Great job ,have you ever come across any cryptids over the years correct any of the crew that you work with?? This is a serious quote, Sir and if so can u tell us your story
I started volunteering in outdoors jobs. And then I spoke with one I ran into. It’s honestly just about networking and getting people to know your face. It’s stressful to hire because the job requires a lot of responsibility so it helps to build rapport so people get to know you. At the same time, I don’t work for the NPS, looking outside of them into stuff like non-profits helps a lot and you may enjoy it more. I think I wouldn’t enjoy working for the NPS as much as I do for a non-profit.
Because of the historical levels I wasn’t too worried. And when something like that is out of your hands I find it’s best to just say oh well and hope for the best. Luckily it worked out in the end and we all got a clean bill of health!
You should check out the RUclips channel "I_am_puma". A Russian family living with an "indoor, sleep in your bed, play in the backyard, house pet" real live Puma. It's crazy but amazing to watch. PS: I recommend the channel, NOT the lifestyle. Besides I don't think kitty would appreciate one of these guys as a roommate. 😉
GOD Bless With That *URANIUM* Issue,That’s A Bugger…🤢 Did Ya Get The 💦 Filtration System Corrected/Up n Runnin?Thx 4 Sharin A Glimpse Of Ur Day,Very 🆒‼️😀✌🏻
Thanks for the well wishes. Yes, I can’t post photos/posts yet but we were all good on the uranium and tests were fine. It’s quickly eliminated by drinking normal water. Also the latest testing showed much lower levels. All good all around! Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed!
18 years old, planning to be a park ranger and live like you are in 2-3 years
Just keep at it and you will! Remember that Rangers exist in many different government and non-government agencies! Good luck!
Same
Need to be 21 yrs old at least.
@@DesertRanger1yup and some of the jobs don’t even say “ranger” in the official job posting.
@@DigitalENCOMthat is incorrect. For law enforcement, yes. But there are many different types of rangers that aren’t LE or do limited LE that doesn’t involve arresting people/carrying a gun (which does require you to be 21).
Fucking A man, dream job. Upkeep the facilities, checking if shits straight, battling nature/humanmade failures, making dirt roads less shit, listening to crazy cat calls!! Hell yeah
Samuel Cloggin you know what’s up! Thanks for the kind words!
I ask÷ &m if he has come across any cryptids out there ,he can't really say anything or bye bye job , I'm referring to Sabe / Sasquatch/ Bigfoot or Dogman ,wearwolf? Let's see if my comment gets a heart ❤ then I'll know he's in the club of no return!!! Not a fun club to be a part of ,PTSD is no joke .
@@meredithaherntamilio4553 I replied this morning stating that I hadn't seen anything and I've asked others.
I promise you I wouldn't lose my job if I told someone I saw a Bigfoot lol. I've literally yelled into the wilderness challenging Bigfoot to a fight and he didn't show so that shows you what a tough guy he is 🤣.
If anyone has Bigfoot's contact info, feel free to let him know I'm trying to square up!
Just found your channel. I love it. I wish I could and would have pursued a position as a Ranger instead of getting involved in the family business. I respect what you do as I am always out in the thick of it on the weekends. Freshly subscribed and can't wait to have time to check out more videos. Take care out there and keep living that dream!
I work in the family business a lot on my days off as well. Thanks for the kind words, I’ll keep bringing you some cool videos!
Saw your reddit post. Thanks for sharing.
This seems like a great job for someone who's comfortable with their own company, and doesn't want someone looking over their shoulder. But that's all the more reason you should rethink going out when you hear a big cat, but can't see it. 😰
Liked, subbed and checking out your other vids. All the best. ✌🙂
Thanks for seeing it on RUclips! It looks like I’m way out there but I was max 100 feet from my door in that shot and the growling was still far enough that I could have easily walked inside IF I saw it. But I ran in to get to my loft that is the only 2nd story part of the house. It has windows that look deep into wilderness and I ran in to see if I could spot him from there. The spot where I put my hand in the paw print though, that’s 15 feet from the porch!
I walked around at night pretty close to the house for one of the Reddit streams but I had noise makers and never went anywhere I felt had enough cover for one to attack.
Would I recommend any of that to anyone? Absolutely not lol
And thanks for liking subbing and checking out the other stuff. I was hesitant to go all in before so you will see more long form stuff
Fascinating video. I always wondered what life might be like living inside of a park and tending to it.
I'm a disabled vet but still youngish at 25, and I think I want to get a forestry degree with my GI bill. I get $29,973 a year as compensation for my service related injuries so I'd be able to live comfortably, and my wife is about to become a teachers aid with the plan of becoming a teacher. We plan to build an off grid property with a well and solar. Live out in the desert, have some animals, maybe a few horses, plant an orchard and garden, work in the parks, take my kids out doing stuff outside.
I love this! I plan on becoming a ranger. My boyfriend will be getting out of the military in 2 years and we plan on living off grid too! Good luck to you!
My family is from Barstow, so i have a love for the deep desert that comes from my bones. Thank you for helping preserve that desert wildness for the next generation
I’m self employed but if I wasn’t this is honestly an awesome job, something about being outdoors Is just peaceful, God bless brother
Thank you!
thank you so much for this video! im 18 and trying to find out what i want to do for my career in the future. this helped me out!
Hey I’m glad this motivated you! I’ve done a ton of different things at work since then, tons of fun. I’ve talked to a lot of people in your age group that are interested in the outdoors and jobs are opening more and more. It took me until my 30s to figure it out!
It seems like a nice life. I've always lived in the north east but I've always felt like the south west would be a wonderful place to live. Being a part of a restoration/conservation effort would be amazing as well.
I think wherever we grew up we’d like to experience the opposite. I love the desert but Summer is a little tough. I love changing it up and driving up into the forests not too far away!
Stay hydrated please 🙏🏾 self-care is the best care! Becoming a park ranger is one of my many dreams. I am in flat land Florida but that is temporary. The parks are just as nice here too! 😆
Always do, and thanks for the kind words! I was in holding pattern for years prior to this so I'm sure your temporary situation will lead you down the right path!
Man, I wish I lived in the US, close to the national parks and worked as a park ranger - it just sounds so perfect for me
Sad part is I am a cop and you would have to make as much as a yellowstone park ranger just to make the minimum pay a cop makes in my state.. Dream jobs dont pay good, the best part comes from doing what you love.
All I have to say is you better do this while your young because the pay doesnt support a family or even having a kid. Its a great job if you love the outdoors and being active. But you work part time unless your in a place where you can have a year round park like yellowstone or you are at a park that is close enough that you can work other park in winter time. Some parks are year round. But 60% of them are closed for winter time. Be smart start it at 21 and work your way up into a year round spot.
May I ask what kind of ranger you are? I want to pursue a career as a federal law enforcement ranger but what you do as a ranger looks vastly different than the ranger position I just mentioned lol.
Side note: I also served as a wildland firefighter last summer and I noticed the heli in the intro clip which looked like it had a helicopter bucket attached to it.. do you also get to work with the firefighters or what exactly was that heli doing lol, curious to know.
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to continue watching and live vicariously through you. My favorite author is Edward Abbey and he has an excellent book called Desert Solitaire. The book is about his time as a desert park ranger.
Yes I need to actually read it all. My now boss gave me the tip that they usually ask about Desert Solitaire when you get hired and he really wanted me. So an hour before my interview I'm listening to snippets to try and have something to say. They did bring up books but when I started talking about Steinbeck they loved that and Edward Abbey wasn't mentioned.
I actually cracked it open recently in Hawaii from a vacation paid for years ago but delayed to to covid. I really appreciated what he said in the intro about how in the desert every plant seems to grow with the other plants giving it space, like every living thing has it's own little spot to be itself. It was a contrast I appreciated, I had traveled very little and being in Hawaii I was amazed how much the plants grew on top of each other, to the point you couldn't see a tree trunk. It was something cool to take notice of and read in the midst of being in a totally opposite climate. Steinbeck talks more about Northern California which I love but one of my favorite lines of his is about life in the desert. It goes in part,
"If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life. And if that should transpire, unwanted places like the desert might be the harsh mother of repopulation. For the inhabitants of the desert are well trained and well armed against desolation. Even our own misguided species might re-emerge from the desert. The lone man and his sun-toughened wife who cling to the shade in an unfruitful and uncoveted place might, with their brothers in arms- the coyote, the jackrabbit, the horned toad, the rattlesnake, together with a host of armored insects - these trained and tested fragments of life might well be the last hope of life against non-life. The desert has mothered magic things before this.
@@DesertRanger1 thanks for sharing. The only Steinbeck I have read is East of Eden. I will be sure to check out his other books. Take care!
Went to school wanting to do this type of work but never actually ended up doing it. Whats your favorite naturalist fact about the area of desert you live in?
That's a good question that is hard for me to answer. I'd say it more like this. What I find most interesting is that human habitation existed here 10,000 years ago. Other rangers have found beads right by where I now live. We have petroglyphs and mortar stones that you can spot if you look long enough on the hillsides
I think the geography is very cool because this area was and is a major riprarian corridor, but also heavy in volcanic activity. So you have this mix of black lava rock, then you have the hardened rock that eventually came to the surface (sorry not a geologist), but you also have this history of major flooding that also helped shaped these rock formations.
After a good rain certain spots have water shooting out of the ground a couple inches as the water drains through the rock and exits where it can, building up speed as it comes down the hill.
It's really cool to now live in an area of the desert that gets snow. I have always lived in the desert but snow was not something we saw unless we took a trip.
What a cool video, I love it! What kind of filtration do you need to take uranium out of the water?
Ended up being all good
Great video, dude! I’m currently working on getting my bachelors in Criminal Justice to work my way towards becoming a park ranger.
Glad you’re on your way! Remember when you make it there to always think of teachable moments if possible.
I’m thinking of becoming a park ranger if making comics doesn’t work out. Seems like a great job since I love wildlife
Comics are sweet. You don’t see wildlife every day but I saw a bobcat run past my house yesterday with a big jack rabbit in his mouth!
love this!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
dude awesome video
These are awesome!
Keep it up
Thank you! Much more to come!
Subbed from Reddit- what a cool video!
Thanks man, glad to see you here!
That was awesome
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for vid.... deam come true
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
so cool that you live on site with a job like that. are you allowed to have visitors?
Yes. And I asked they same thing when they said its part of the job, they laughed and said of course! I get to treat it like I'm renting. So I can have friends over, family, I'm getting a cat. The house I get to live in is the first thing our organization did about 30 years ago. A guy built the house that I am living in, he lead a massive restoration effort that hauled like 30 dump trucks with of cars, parts, scraps, junk, trash etc. If it weren't for him this place wouldn't look like it does. Then he wanted to really do this big and expand this area so somebody stepped up to fund expanding and protecting and now we have A LOT of preserves/reserves. The man who built this house is our head guy, and the person who helped fund expansion told him he'd help, just don't charge anyone to use the land, and we havent.
Love this stuff & cant wait to see more
Do you get a decent internet connection out there in your cabin?
Is it difficult to get placed in a position with the isolation that you have?
Liked commented and subscribed
I know this is an old video but this looks like an awesome job and I would love to do it. How did you get started and make it to this point?
Volunteered in a fire tower, took a class in conservation, kept the outdoors in mind as often as possible. Had pictures of the outdoors in my cubicle at the old job and hiking a lot to keep it in mind. Came back to my old job after some time off and a vacation up north and said F this. Applied for a position nearby and eventually got it. Look into non-profits and other private organizations if you don’t care about the NPS title. I don’t work for NPS.
And I always hated this word but network if you meet outdoors people.
What level of education is required to become a ranger? It looks fascinating. Thanks for making these videos.
It just depends on where you want to work. Different agencies have different requirements and private organizations will have more flexibility. I've taken into to conservation of natural resources, a lab for the class, intro to land management, and this semester I'll be taking classes on different types of animals.
Is the Uranium in the water naturally occurring or from nuclear tests?
Minerals that contain uranium dissolve and often get into well water. So it’s naturally occurring and we all ended up being in good health.
Do you live in a little house that you pay for or is it something payed for by the state??
Hi is there any chance I can be a park ranger in the US im from Philippines
Good work boss
Thanks fella
You guys ever need volunteers?
Hi what’s the difference between a cadet im a little confused I would like to apply
No clue sorry. I’m with a non-profit.
Are you close to Baker at all?
Not too far!
Great job ,have you ever come across any cryptids over the years correct any of the crew that you work with?? This is a serious quote, Sir and if so can u tell us your story
Unfortunately I haven’t been so lucky and neither have my co-workers. I’ve definitely asked! Thank you, glad you liked it!
about how much do you earn?
Mooooooooore
They’re coming brother!
What area of California is this?
So cal desert
How did you go about becoming a ranger?
I started volunteering in outdoors jobs. And then I spoke with one I ran into. It’s honestly just about networking and getting people to know your face. It’s stressful to hire because the job requires a lot of responsibility so it helps to build rapport so people get to know you. At the same time, I don’t work for the NPS, looking outside of them into stuff like non-profits helps a lot and you may enjoy it more. I think I wouldn’t enjoy working for the NPS as much as I do for a non-profit.
Thank you!
Uranium… in, in your water.😅
That’s not okay. You said that so casually.
Because of the historical levels I wasn’t too worried. And when something like that is out of your hands I find it’s best to just say oh well and hope for the best. Luckily it worked out in the end and we all got a clean bill of health!
Ylla allowed to carry guns ?
This would seem like an enjoyable job but the pay is to low and housing is further away from state parks so.
Just depends who you work for. Those aren’t true of my situation.
You should check out the RUclips channel "I_am_puma". A Russian family living with an "indoor, sleep in your bed, play in the backyard, house pet" real live Puma. It's crazy but amazing to watch. PS: I recommend the channel, NOT the lifestyle. Besides I don't think kitty would appreciate one of these guys as a roommate. 😉
GOD Bless With That *URANIUM* Issue,That’s A Bugger…🤢 Did Ya Get The 💦 Filtration System Corrected/Up n Runnin?Thx 4 Sharin A Glimpse Of Ur Day,Very 🆒‼️😀✌🏻
Thanks for the well wishes. Yes, I can’t post photos/posts yet but we were all good on the uranium and tests were fine. It’s quickly eliminated by drinking normal water. Also the latest testing showed much lower levels. All good all around! Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed!
@@DesertRanger1 Great To Hear All Is Well & My Pleasure,Stay Safe n Sane Out There! 😼🤙🏻✨