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Trout Lake landing in Manhattan Beach temporarily closed

...partnership agreement to complete the environmental improvements to the landing. For more information on this project, please contact Corrine Hodapp, Corps of Engineers southern headwaters section supervisory park ranger at (651) 290-5790.

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2013-05-20/trout-lake-landing-manhattan-bea
Outdoors
Mississippi River Headwaters parks recoginzed with safety award

...southern Headwaters recreation section as its 2012 Government Employee Safety Now Award recipient.The section includes park rangers from Crosslake Recreation Area and Gull Lake Recreation Area. Both areas are highly visited recreation sites, collectively...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/2013-02-12/mississippi-river-headwaters-pa
Lifestyle
Brainerd breaks record high rainfall in May

...inches of precipitation since May 19. Nearly 3 inches of rain was recorded Sunday.Corrine Hodapp, supervisor and park ranger at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the Gull Dam and Recreation Area, which operates the reservoir, pulled the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-29/brainerd-breaks-record-high-rainfall
News | Weather
Floods strand campers in Savanna Portage State Park near McGregor

...while an excavating crew rushes to rebuild the road. She says the campers are outside cell phone coverage, but that park rangers were able to reach them by all-terrain vehicle and both groups decided to stay with their vehicles. Assistant park...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-06-21/floods-strand-campers-savanna-portag
News | Weather
Tech Savvy: It's all fun and games

...awesomeness I remember from when I was younger. (Ok, so I still play those games too!) Their game mascot is also a Park Ranger Bear with a hand puppet, now you tell me ... how many of those have you seen? Do yourself a favor and check Turf...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/tech/2012-08-17/tech-savvy-its-all-fun-and
Tech
Most in U.S. won't be able to escape 'fiscal cliff'

...doctors who accept Medicare, people who get unemployment aid, defense contractors, air traffic controllers, national park rangers and companies that do research and development.The package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-11-16/most-us-wont-be-able-escape-fisc
Business
Would my wood work?

...the park. OK, it's worth it to keep invasive pests such as the emerald ash borer out of Itasca. When I buy the park ranger's wood, however, I looked at the label. It came from Crow Wing County.

http://brainerddispatch.com/blog-post/mike-orourke/2012-07-17/would-my-wood-work
Taking off the safety

Park ranger Margaret Anderson was operating a roadblock in Mount Rainier National...traveled to Mount Rainier to hide from authorities. After shooting the park ranger, Mr. Barnes escaped into the woods; he was found hours later frozen...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-01-05/taking-safety
Other Opinion
Students get the dirt on nature

...classes, such as yoga and learning about healthy snacks.At the end of the school year, the students will become Junior Park Rangers.Johannah Jones and Reanna Flom, seventh-graders, are in their second year of the program and were working with...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-09-26/students-get-dirt-nature
News
Brainerd Dispatch: Sports | Brainerd, Minnesota | Brainerd Lakes Area Sports on brainerddispatch.com

...The next year Ron called me on a Thursday night. I was in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota, working as a state park ranger, and he said, 'I need you.' I said, 'When do we start?' and he goes 'Monday.'" sports,local sports...

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/110810/spo_20101108027.shtml

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