Ranger Headquarters

Ranger Headquarters
Big Pine National Forest, Knotty Pine

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

RB024 Ice Pack

Our RANGER BILL for  6/11/2026, 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 Alaska. When they are unable to contact anyone by radio, the passengers and crew plan a mutiny. Bill and his rangers are called in to find Sea Chaser and bring everyone safely home.

Icebergs were an even bigger threat in 2024 than they were in the 1950s when Ice Pack first aired.


RB022 Glacier Cave-In

  Our RANGER BILL adventure for Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8pMcvFv0Q&t=3s