Local Author Park Ranger Bruce W. Bytnar Book Signing Nov. 27th A Park Ranger's Life: Thirty Two Years Protecting Our National Parks At Books & Company   Local Author National Park Ranger Brucy Bytnar will hold a book signing between 1pm and 4pm at Books & Company, 29 W. Nelson Street, Lexington, VA. His book, A Park Ranger's Life: Thirty Two Years Protecting Our National Parks, is a collection of stories from his career as a National Park Ranger including: * A wild bear who favors Kentucky Fried Chicken * A fugitive wanted in eight states * A dog that saves his owner's life * Wildland firefighters battling nature and fire * A ghost haunting a colonial mansion * Hikers who stay lost because they think searchers calling their names are wild animals * Being willing to risk your life to make our parks safe and help preserve them for the future. These are just a few experiences you will read about in A Park Ranger’s Life. Drawn from the thirty-two-year career of National Park Ranger Bruce W. Bytnar, you will discover what it takes to be a park ranger, what threats to visitors and resources they deal with on a daily basis, and what you can do to help protect and preserve our national heritage. Bytnar is regarded as one of the finest examples of the competence and commitment for which the men and women of the ranger force are famous. Highly skilled in a variety of disciplines, his career took him from assignments as varied as firefighting across the western mountains to VIP protection details in eastern cities, a rescue mission in the rugged Appalachians, tracking criminals through forests and fields, and to the response in the nation’s capital after the attacks of September 11. For more information, please contact Bruce W. Bytnar at thebytnars@aol.com or www.aparkrangerslife.blogstpot.com

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