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Show j Hummel Takes j New Park j Service Post j BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL; PARK Jim Hummel, supervisor) ranger at Bryce Canyon Natiorui Park for the past two years, wili leaving to take up new duties at or1 of the nation's newer national pa in Alaska. Hummel has been assigned district ranger in charge of f0tt million acres at Wrangell-St. Elit National Park and Preserve, a giaj, natural wonder. The park located in southed Alaska has river, tundra, 16,00a foot mountains (the Wrangei mountain range), caribou, grizzlies elk and a great variety of wildliU native to the area. ' "We'll be joining the 'bus-rats'," 'bus-rats'," said Hummel, excited abou'i the move. "It's always been my , ' goal to serve at a place like Wrangell-St. Elias, and my wife is very supportive about the impend ing change." The Hummels will live in a W( cabin, with electricity furnished b; a generator and bottled gas. Whei they are ready for school Hummel: wife, Mary, will home teach thei. two boys, David 4, and Bryce, 1 She is a registered nurse who ha; been working at Garfield Memorii Hospital in Panguitch since the; have been at Bryce Canyon. . Hummel's only staff will be; secretary. Their district headquarter, is about five hours by road fro: Anchorage and about an hour aw from general park headquarters There are three districts on the part each with a ranger and secretary, arc there is a superintendent and chie ranger. Yes, television is available i: them via "Rat-Net," a special ere nel that brings news and local g: ings-on to the area's "bush-rats,'; term for those who live, like t, Hummels will be doing, in tl: bush. Only a few other familie: mostly homesteaders are anywher close, and they are outside pa; boundaries. "I've learned a lot here at Bryce said Hummel, "training in sear: and rescue, repelling, emergen: medical services, law enforceme- community relations, structural (L training, and supervision will all ': helpful at my new post." Travel, apart from the road : .Anchorage, will be mostly b snowmobile, dogsled. and a: Hummel, a pilot, hopes- to get t some more flying at his new jc! The park has a Super Cub Cessr. 180 for ranger use. The family's adventures will b. gin June 19 when they leave k Alaska and their new assignme: where low temperatures can ran: from minus 30 to minus 50. Fo tunately, they'll arrive as summ: begins. |