Ranger Bill for Friday afternoon, Oct. 30, 2026, is:
RB123 - River of FireRanger Headquarters
Big Pine National Forest, Knotty Pine
Friday, October 30, 2026
RB123 River of Fire
Thursday, October 29, 2026
RB122 A Prisoner on Ice Island
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 10/29/26 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!
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
RB120 The Self-Made Man
RANGER BILL for Tuesday evening, Oct. 27, 2026. is:
RB120 The Self-Made Man
Dutch Vanderhaven lost his son in the war and is very bitter over his loss. He doesn't want any one's help, and he won't help anyone, not orphans, not even the church. Then Dutch is gored by a huge bull. Now Dutch is the one who needs help, but his neighbors won't give him any. Can Bill and Stumpy find a way to get the work done at Dutch's ranch and change a town full of stubbornness?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Scorpionfish
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, October 24, 2026
Sarah scorpionfish stops in for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine. Sarah is one of 300 species of scorpionfish. Sarah is a Merat scorpionfish. She has four colors and lives in the warm and shallower waters of the ocean. Her cousins who live in deep water have only one or two colors on their skins.
Now it's Sarah's time to chat about herself:
Monday, October 26, 2026
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
RANGER BILL for Monday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2026, is:
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
Bill and the boys and Maggie Murphy take 50 boys from their church to camp for three weeks. Henry has some problems as lifeguard during swim times. Stumpy and Gray Wolf lead a snipe hunt. Bill deals with one boy's home sickness. But Maggie must deal with a filthy kitchen, feeding 50 hungry boys, and then a food thief. She threatens to leave if the thief isn't caught. Bill must find the guilty boy or lose the best cook west of the Mississippi! Find out what happens to Mrs. Murphy's famous chowder too!!!
OTRR #161
