Girl Scout Ranger patch

In 2015, the Girl Scouts and U.S. National Park Service introduced the Girl Scout Ranger patch.

1. Choose a National Park Service site
Visit http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm. Choose a national park, a monument, or any of 407 sites protected by the National Park Service. Explore nature, learn the history and read the stories to discover why it is important to preserve your park.

2. Imagine Yourself in a National Park
Brainstorm activities that you might want to experience at a national park. Consider working outside with a geologist or inside identifying fossils. Maybe wildfire restoration, building a bridge, or a night sky project interests you.

3. Contact the park and make a plan
Call the park (the phone number is on the park’s website under Contact Us). Identify yourself as a Girl Scout. Ask if there is someone who works with the Girl Scout Ranger program or a volunteer coordinator. Express your ideas to the coordinator. Together, plan a project to help the park and fulfill your goals.

4. Go to the park and Have Fun!
If your park does not have a volunteer program or is too far away to visit, create a Take Action Project.

5. Share the experience
Send photographs or emails of your project and time spent in the park to the National Park Service at http://www.nps.gov/common/utilities/sendmail/sendemail.cfm?o=8197%28HI%2B%26N%5B2%24J1RHZQ%3AFOF%3A35IP2L8%2E%29%0A&r=/subjects/youthprograms/girlscoutranger.htm, or submit completed Take Action projects to GSUSA’s Map It Girls Changing the World.