Ranger Headquarters

Ranger Headquarters
Big Pine National Forest, Knotty Pine

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

RB027 Bobsled

  Our exciting RANGER BILL adventure for Tuesday, June 16, 2026 is: 

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 the rangers' winning streak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfDUUn2shU&t=26s

RB028 The River Monster

 Our RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, June 17, 2026 

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IHLGGa2Apc

Saturday, June 13, 2026

RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at the Flying Double Bar Ranch

  RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 6/13/2026, is:

RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at the Flying Double Bar Ranch

Lester Winters inherited the family ranch when his dad died. The bank must take the ranch because of some unpaid loans. Les barricades himself in the house behind his rifle. The rangers find some of Les’ missing cattle, but they’re not enough to settle the estate’s debt. Then Bill hears a wild story about buried treasure on the Winters ranch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2qN0E86-Nwc

Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Saiga

 Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 13, 2026

Sergei Saiga stops in for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine. Saigas live in the vast, dry grasslands of Kazakhstan  (a country in Asia between Russia and China). Saigas a members of the antelope family.

Those grasslands, called steppes, are often cold as well a dry. Saiga noses help protect them from breathing the cold into their lungs. Saigas must migrate to southern parts of Kazakhstan to avoid the worst of the winter weather, but then migrate north in Spring to enjoy northern grazing.

Let's hear from Serei and Bob now:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/sergei-saiga-mammal 

RB122 A Prisoner on Ice Island

 RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 6/13/26 is RB122

A Prisoner on Ice Island 

Knotty Pine's city council wastes time debating how to pay for a fence that is critically needed to keep kids off the ice flows on the Shady River. Two boys do get stuck on an ice flow, and that flow is heading for a drop into a deep gorge! Bill must find some way to safely reach and rescue the boys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4Dbc0tED8