Tune-Up Hike : To rangers, with Love!

Please join us for a tune-up hike where we would like participants to share their love for public lands and their appreciation for the hardworking rangers.

We encourage participants to wear T-shirts from their favorite national parks or national forests, and exchange stories about their favorite rangers or parks with others along the hike.

The starting place is Montrose Beach. We will send the details to those who sign up two days before the hike, so please make sure you check your email notification from Meetup. We expect to hike for about 6 miles. Bringing a backpack is encouraged but optional.

A few facts:

• National Parks: 331 million visits in 2024.
• Average Salary of Park Ranger: Yearly salary of $38K, with the top 10 percent earning roughly $84K.
• As of February 14, 2025, about 1,000 National Park Service staff members, as well as 3,400 employees of the U.S. Forest Service, were indiscriminately fired.
• Estimated costs to re-install those rangers per tax paying household:$0.11 to $0.15 per tax paying household per month

If you cannot join us, but want to share the stories about your favorite park/forest rangers, please write them on the message board!

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