In our Ranger Bill for Oct. 21, 2025, the rangers must fight a massive, out of control fire
Our Ranger Bill story
for Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, is RB067
Our exciting Ranger Bill adventure
for late Saturday morning, Oct. 18, 2025, is RB049Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Oct. 18, 2025, is RB088
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 10/18/25
Irma the Ice Worm pays a call on Uncle Bob Devine. Irma is a half-inch-long worm that lives inside the ice and snow on the Cascade Mountains and their glaciers. Irma can move around because the Cascade glaciers are not solid ice but rather ice, snow, and water. Irma swims in the waters. Listen to Irma describe herself and her life in the Cascades.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 10/11/25
Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner guest for today is Clancey the Piddock Clam. Clancy digs a cave for himself in solid rock to protect him from other animals that might eat him. Let Clancey tell you his story:
In our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, 10/11/25,
Our Ranger Bill story for early Saturday morning, Oct. 11,2025, is
RB087 The White Fields
Our story for Wednesday, 10/8/25, is a construction project gone wrong on Ranger Bill
Our Ranger Bill story
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 10/4/25
Uncle bob Devine gets a visit from Harry the Old Man's Beard lichen. Lichen is a mixture of fungus and algae. You will find him on the Sitka spruce tree and large leaf maples in Olympic National Park in the state of Washington. He is one of more than 130 species of lichen.
Listen to Harry describe himself for you.
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Late Saturday morning's very scary RANGER BILL for 10/4/25 is
RB045 The Road Ghost
Buses heading for Knotty Pine are crashing. It's not poor weather or icy roads that are causing these accidents. Bus drivers on the night route from Junction City to Knotty Pine are seeing animals, ghost animals, crossing the road in front of them causing the drivers to swerve and wreck. Gus McDougal will go out of business unless the road ghosts and the wrecks stop. Gus asks Bill and the boys to look into the problem. Are the animals real? Are the road ghosts real? And what can Bill do about ghosts anyway?
Our Ranger Bill adventure for early Saturday morning,
Oct. 4, 2025, is RB086 Tiger Cat
Our Ranger Bill for Friday afternoon, Oct. 3, 2025, is
RB061 The Laughing Face aka The Wolverine Scare
Ranger Bill for Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, is RB060
Decision for DeathOur Ranger Bill
for Wednesday evening, Oct. 10, 2025, isRANGER BILL for this Monday, 9/29/25, is: RB057
The Muddy River
Soil erosion is washing tons of black top soil into the Shady River turning its clear blue mountain waters into a muddy mess during each rain storm. Senator Baxter wants a dam on the Shady to control the river's flood waters and stop erosion. Ranger Bill has soil erosion under control in the national forest. Bill knows the same methods will work just as well for farmers and ranchers all along the Shady. Who is behind Senator Baxter's dam and assisting the senator to get the dam built? How can a government employee like Bill oppose a US senator? Will farmers be saddled with taxes to pay for a dam?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 9/27/25
Uncle Bob Devine greets Floss the Deer Moss. Last week we heard from Ross the Cord Moss. Cord moss is dark green and grows on rocks and soil in many places around the country. Deer moss grows in the rain forests of the western US on the branches of large leaf maple trees. Now learn more about Floss the deer moss.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning,
Sept. 27 2025, is RB052Our Ranger Bill exciting adventure for early Saturday morning , 9/27/25, is RB085
Our Ranger Bill for Friday evening, Sept. 26, 2025, is RB056
Our Ranger Bill for Thursday evening, Sept. 25, 2025, is a very touching one:
RB055 A Lesson in Love
We have quite a big Ranger Bill adventure
for Wednesday evening, 9/24/25, RB054Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 9/20/25
Ross Moss comes to Nature Corner this morning. You might like to get a magnifying glass out today to get a really good look at Ross. Moss plants are so small that about 500 moss plants could grow on a postage stamp. Ross is a bright green. He is made of a stem and very small leaves. Let Ross tell you and Uncle Bob all about himself. Then go outside and find a rock with some moss on it and take a close look at him with the magnifying glass!
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, 9/20/25, is RB050
The Log JamOur Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Sept. 20, 2025, is RB048
The Man Who UnderstoodOur Ranger Bill begins our work week, Sept. 15, 2025, with
RB047 The Broken Promise
Our exciting Ranger Bill adventure
for Wednesday evening, Sept. 17, 2025, is RB049Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, Sept. 13, 2025 is full of excitement
RB039:Our Ranger Bill tale for early Saturday morning,
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - for Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Rocky the Stonefish to Nature Corner this Saturday. Rocky doesn't have the ability to swim well or quickly. His protection is his camoflauge and his poison spine. Learn all about Rocky today.
Our Ranger Bill to end the work week, 9/12/25, is: RB046
"The Handcar Race".
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, 2025, is:
RB043 The Crusher
A cargo plane crash lands at Knotty Pine airport. A short time later, an airport employee is found dead inside a hanger near the plane’s cargo boxes. He has been crushed to death. Who or what could do this? Ranger Bill is called in to investigate. He suspects something escaped one of the cargo boxes.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep170_The_Crusher.mp3
OTRR #198
In our RANGER BILL for Monday evening, Sept. 8, 2024, Bill tries to kill himself and all his fire jumpers:
RB042 Forest Fire Death Trap aka Fire in the Forest
The towns of Silver Springs and Claytown are surrounded by 10 forest fires and their citizens are trapped. The southern district rangers can't fight these blazes alone. They call Bill and his men and equipment to control the fires. This is one of the biggest fires the state has ever had. And to top it off, the train bringing equipment from Knotty Pine breaks down. Can Bill help get these fires under control or will rangers and innocent citizens die?
Our RANGER BILL story for midweek, 9/10/25 is:
RB044 The Old Diehard
Ranger Bill and the boys take a trip to State U. to give chemist Dr. Thaddeus Draper some soil samples to test. The fellas walk into an disagreement between Dr. Draper and his grandson Mel. Dr. Draper wants to Mel to follow in his footsteps and become a research chemist. Mel wants to be an agricultural chemist but won't buck his grandfather. Bill sees the tension building between the Drapers. Mel asks for Bill's help with his grandfather. Then Dr. Draper wants Bill to talk Mel into being a research chemist. Bill is between a rock and a diehard. What is he going to do in this situation? Can Bill make either Draper happy, or will both be mad at Bill and at each other?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - for Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Titus the Spadefoot Toad today. Titus and his relatives live in deserts of the souwetern US. Titus needs water like any toad or frog. What is he doing in a desert? God designed him to burrow deep in the ground and only come out during the wet season. His spade back feet with their sharp nails dig easily into the desert soil.
To learn more click on his link:
Ranger Bill has his hands full with
RB036 – Sleeping Death
for this early Saturday morning. Sept. 6, 2025
– Sleeping Sickness infects the Central City area. Local manpower and equipment are not enough to control the mosquito population. The rangers are called in to help spray for mosquitoes, but one large landowner won’t allow the spraying on his land leaving many in danger of infection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQr7MtwVotY
By the way, "mosquitoes" and "mosquitos" are both correct plural forms for :mosquito.
Ranger Bill for a Friday evening, 9/5/25, has a family dealing with anger and jealousy,
Our midweek Ranger Bill is full of excitement
for Sept. 3, 2025, in RB039:Our Ranger Bill for Thursday afternoon, 9/4/25, is a fan favorite:
Stumpy Gets 30 DaysOur RANGER BILL tension-filled adventure
for Monday, 9/1/25, Labor Day is RB037 The Shortage
John Patterson is the Forest Service accountant for the Northwest District and one of Bill’s rangers. John is a fine Christian and works hard to do a good job. But recently John has been worrying himself sick over an accounting error of thousands of dollars that he can’t find to correct. He won’t tell anyone or ask for help and a federal audit is only days away.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - for Saturday, August 30, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Damon the Decoy Fish. Damon is a red and white fish that is similar to a large mouth bass. Damon lives in the Red Sea and his coloring camouflages him against the Red Sea coral. Learn how he describes himself in today's audio.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Aug. 30, 2025,
is RB080
Our Thursday evening RANGER BILL story for Aug. 28, 2025, is:
RB035 Henry for Mayor
It's Youth Week at Knotty Pine High, and Henry has a "Thorny" problem - Thornton Newcastle, that is. Henry is running for Youth Week mayor against young Mr. Newcastle. Thornton is the son of a big businessman and used to getting his way. Thorny is worried that Henry will win the mayor's race because of Henry's popularity at school. Henry is on the swim team and has the best grades in math. Thornton steals Henry's math notes and accuses him of cheating. Now Henry may not only lose the race but also kicked off the swim team and flunk math. Bill can't go to Henry's aid or he will interfere with the Youth Week. Henry must stand up for himself. But what can he do to defend his good name?
RANGER BILL for Monday evening, Aug. 25, 2025 , RB032
The Floating Death Trap
Riverboats carry freight and passengers between Knotty Pine and Mirror Lake and Kings Islands. Andy Coogan and Jim Gunderson are fierce competitors for the tourists visiting the Mirror Lake region. Bill will not give Andy a passengers license because his boat is dangerous. His stacks leak. Deck planks need to be replaced. The boiler is a threat to human life.RANGER BILL tries to make peace between two competitors, Wednesday, Aug. 27,2025:
RB034 – Piggyback – Dangerous winter weather and complex delivery problems threaten the survival of both Canyon City Truck Lines and the railroad. Leonard Grant, owner of CCTL, and Spence Neihoff, superintendent of the Knotty Pine railroad district, do not get along and refuse to work with one another. Bill must teach these men how to work together instead of against each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQL2qpm90sw
First aired Nov. 19, 1955. This is OTRR #22.
Our Ranger Bill story for late Saturday morning, Aug. 23 ,2025, is:
RANGER BILL for early Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, is
RB079 The Loudmouth
Bill has his hands full this week with a know-it-all rookie ranger, Jerry Sands. Jerry thinks very highly of himself and doesn't respect the experience of Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf. The fellas get tired of Jerry's big ego and lack of respect for others. Bill and the boys decide to teach Jerry a few lessons about the forest. See what the boys do to try to wise-up Jerry. See what kind of trouble Jerry gets into during these "lessons." Will Jerry ever learn to be a real ranger?
Our Ranger Bill adventure for Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, is:
Ranger Bill has a very dangerous search and rescue adventure for Wednesday, 8/20/25 :
Our RANGER BILL for Saturday evening, Aug. 16, 2025,
RB028 – The River Monster –
The town of River's Bend builds some new dikes and levees to protect the city and its residents from the flood waters of the Shady River. But dikes can’t protect River's Bend from Zack Stephens and the huge log raft he is floating down the river.
Our exciting RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday morning, Aug. 16, 2025:
RB027 Bobsled
The state championship bobsled races are going to be held at Culver’s Peak. Top speeds are expected to exceed 60 miles per hour! Our rangers will be racing against the Cole brothers and their faster sled. Our rangers have won these races for the last three years running, but the Cole brothers could end their winning streak.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - for Saturday Aug. 16, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine's guest for today is Phineas the Pinecone Fish. Phineas gets his name from his round body and large scales that make him look just like a real pine cone. Learn more about pine cone fish in this audio.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning,
RANGER BILL for Friday afternoon, 8/15/25, is
RB026 Henry's Miracle
This is the story of Henry at the age of ten when his world fell apart. First, he is crippled in a fall. Then his mother develops cancer and dies. Then to add insult to injury, his dad becomes gravely ill and may die, which would leave young Henry all alone in the world.
https://www.goldenclassics.uk/e/ranger-bill-58-11-19-153-henry-s-miracle-1675533044/
Ranger Bill for Thursday afternoon, Aug. 14, 2025, is:
RB018 Tony's Place aka Standing Firm for What Is Right
Ed Blake’s gang asks Tony to sponsor them so they can buy baseball uniforms. They vandalize Tony’s Market when he doesn’t give them the cash right away. One boy in the gang, Mike, is willing to stand up to the gang and tell the truth. Then Tony’s store is damaged even worse than the first time. Tony asks Bill for help to stop the violence.
Our RANGER BILL for 8/13/25, takes our rangers to the dangerous ocean ice fields near Alaska - RB024:
Ice Pack
The vessel Sea Chaser is trapped in the huge, powerful ice flows near
Icebergs are an even bigger threat in 2024 than they were in the 1950s when Ice Pack first aired.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday Aug. 9, 2025
Kathy Kiwi bird drops in on Uncle Bob Devine. Kathy hales from the forests New Zeeland. She is the smallest bird that cannot fly. Kathy looks like a small brown chicken with even smaller wings. Learn more from Kahty and Uncle Bob.
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 8/9/25, is
RB025 Timid Tomothy
Tim Sullivan has a long history of getting into bad business deals. When his uncle offers him a good job as logging manager, he is afraid to fail once more. Tim’s dad, Officer Mike Sullivan, asks Bill to step in and try to make Tim into a successful businessman. Bill enlists several of his rangers to help Tim. Even Frenchy DeSalle and his lumberjacks get in the act.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 8/7/25, is RB020
"If the Lord Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us?".
RANGER BILL for Tuesday afternoon, 8/5/25, is a wet one:
RB017 Overflow
Two days of hard rains plus heavy spring snow melt have combined to threaten Big Ridge Dam. The operators at the dam must open its floodgates soon or the dam will burst. Bill and his rangers have just 3 hours to warn all the farmers and ranchers in the valley below Big Ridge before the gates are opened.
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, is
RB019 Sultan, King of Beasts
Sultan is a huge and powerful lion at Kittyland wild animal park. Sultan defies then scares his trainer Flick Martin. Can Bill help Flick find his courage to control Sultan? If not, Kittyland might close, and Sultan may be destroyed!
RANGER BILL for Monday afternoon, 8/4/25, is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, Aug. 2,2025
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Petunia Polar Bear.
Our early Saturday morning RANGER BILL for Aug. 2, 2025, is RB023
Dead on Arrival
Henry is a ham radio operator. One evening, his radio picks up a distress call from a trapper and his son in
RANGER BILL livens up our Friday afternoon, Aug. 1, 2025, with
RB015 The Hunted
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, July 31, 2025, is
RB014 Disaster Alert
A leak from a gas station storage tank dumps 500 gallons of gasoline into the Knotty Pine Bank. Bill and his rangers are called upon to keep the bank and most of Knotty Pine from being blown right off the map. And to make matters worse, state examiners are threatening to close the bank permanently if it can’t be kept open for business during the crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgqM9dXwgU
OTRR #190
Our midweek RANGER BILL mystery for July 30, 2025,
RB013 The Man Who Couldn't Remember
A dazed and confused man stumbles into a hobo jungle. The hobos fear the man is wanted by the law so they dump him on a freight train. The rangers find the man outside of Knotty Pine in an abandoned shack singing hymns. The man appears to have amnesia and might be a minister. Bill, Stumpy and Gray Wolf begin a fast-paced search for the man’s identity.
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Saturday afternoon, July. 26, 2025, is
RB022 Glacier Cave-In
A team of archeologists study an ancient cave that was exposed when the Big Slide Glacier moved. The glacier moves again and causes an earthquake and landslides. Bill and Henry are part of a rescue team sent to recover the scientists. One of the scientists, Dr. Swift, is trapped under a slide. Amputation of the doctor’s leg may be the only way to save his life.
Our spine-tingling Ranger Bill adventure
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Uncle bob Devine welcomes Stephanie Sponge today. Stephanie is one of over 3000 kinds of sponge. Sponges are animals, not plants. Ancient soldiers used sponges to pad their armor. Sponges are not like other animals. They have no mouth or eyes or brain. They are a collection cells that work together to breathe and eat from sea water. Learn how Christ has designed Stephanie and her relatives.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, July 26, 2025, is
RB021 – Death on the Waterfront – Six healthy men fall ill suddenly and die. All these men had been in Knotty Pine’s warehouse district along the
#191 on the OTRR list:
RB011 is our RANGER BILL story for Friday evening, 7/25/25,
"Death's Half Mile".
Our RANGER BILL tale for Thursday afternoon, July 24, 2025, is
RB010 Hit and Run
The entire town of
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_55-04-13_ep137_Hit_and_Run.mp3
OTRR #12
RB008 is our RANGER BILL adventure for tuesday afternoon, 7/23/25:
They Called It the Jinx
A new bridge is being built over 1200-foot-deep Dead Man’s Gorge. Tom Farris has been called in to be the construction foreman. The construction crew doesn’t want Tom as their foreman. They call him a jinx. He has caused many needless accidents because he pushes his men too hard. Will Tom’s job end as quickly as it has started, or will an accident or accidents jinx the whole bridge project?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for July 19, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from the largest seal in the world's oceans, Sebastian the Elephant Seal.
Sebastian weighs 8,000 pounds and measures 20 feet long. He dives 400 feet deep to search for food. his wife is smaller, but is still 2000 pounds. Even his wife's pups are large - 100 pounds at birth. Learn more from Bob and Sebastian.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, July 19, 2025, is RB074
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, July 19, 2025, is
RB019 Sultan, King of Beasts
Sultan is a huge and powerful lion at Kittyland wild animal park. Sultan defies then scares his trainer Flick Martin. Can Bill help Flick find his courage to control Sultan? If not, Kittyland might close, and Sultan may be destroyed!
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Thursday , July 17, 2025, is
RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, July 16, 2025, is
RANGER BILL for Tuesday, 7/15/25, is
Ranger Bill for Saturday afternoon, July 12,2025, is:
RB018 Tony's Place aka Standing Firm for What Is Right
Ed Blake’s gang asks Tony to sponsor them so they can buy baseball uniforms. They vandalize Tony’s Market when he doesn’t give them the cash right away. One boy in the gang, Mike, is willing to stand up to the gang and tell the truth. Then Tony’s store is damaged even worse than the first time. Tony asks Bill for help to stop the violence.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for July 12, 2025 -
Uncle Bob Devine chats with Sid Squid. Sid is one of 350 types of squid. He is a loligo squid, one of the most common species of squid. Sid travels by jet power.
Our Ranger Bill adventure for late Saturday morning,
July 12, 2025, is RB073
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 7/12/25, is a wet one:
RB017 Overflow
Two days of hard rains plus heavy spring snow melt have combined to threaten Big Ridge Dam. The operators at the dam must open its floodgates soon or the dam will burst. Bill and his rangers have just 3 hours to warn all the farmers and ranchers in the valley below Big Ridge before the gates are opened.
