RB-029 Fossil Canyon

Virgil Adams and Stanley Grimshaw, two students from State University, defy strong warnings and brave the horrible desert heat of Fossil Canyon to locate some bones or other fossils to impress the professors at school. Dean Sands at the university realizes at least one student is missing. So he asks Bill and the boys to look in the deadly Fossil Canyon for the missing boy. Can Bill and our rangers survive the heat of the canyon themselves? Can they locate the missing students?

Navy Medic Bill Jefferson

Bill mentions his time in the military in at least two episodes that I am aware of, RB-020 "If the Lord Is For Us Who Can Be Against Us" and also RB-009 "Bim, The Dog."

In "If The Lord Is For Us..." Bill encourages discouraged, young Army serviceman Ted Sloan. Bill tells of his persecution as a Christian by his sergeant during his training to fight overseas and how he was able to endure and benefit from that trouble. Bill was a Navy medic attached to a Marine unit training at New River, North Carolina.

Bill's sarge was Buck Donovan. Buck was tough and thought Bill was a "religious Lilly." Buck made life tough constantly for Bill in Big and little ways. Buck made Bill train harder than the rest of the men. He shorted Bill's supply requests or forgot them all together. Buck hid Bill's time-off passes for rest and recreation. And we need to remember that Bill's forest ranger dad had also passed away just weeks before Bill entered the service.

Bill finally won Buck over when he saved Buck's life when Buck was bitten by a rattler while the unit was out on maneuvers in a swamp. Buck's rough treatment of Bill probably saved his life because Bill was physically strong enough to carry Buck to an ambulance.

"Bim, The Dog" is actually a collection of real-life dog stories combined into this one Ranger Bill adventure. Part of that story is how Bim served with Bill in the fierce fighting in Bougainvillea Island in the Solomon Islands during WWII. In this story Bill and his unit are under attack by machine guns in a bunker. Bim was able to save the unit by jumping into the bunker and attacking the gunners allowing Bill's unit to overtake the Japanese. Bim is wounded and sent home.

Knotty Pine Junior Rangers

Become a Knotty Pine Ranger, one of Ranger Bill's Junior Rangers right now. Just go to our Zoomshare pages at http://rangerbill.zoomshare.com and print out your own Knotty Pine Ranger ID card and Ranger Bill - Warrior of the Woodland badge. That's all it takes!
Soon we will have activities where you can earn badges and more. Stop by often to see the latest Knotty Pine Ranger activities!

RB028 The River Monster

It's spring in in the Shady Mountains and down the Shady River Valley. That means that it's logging time again, time for tons of logs and log rafts to float down the Shady to the sawmills downriver. The Shady is high but safe from flooding thanks to new levees at the town of River's Bend. A new danger threatens the safety of the river, a giant log raft twice as big as any ever floated on the Shady thanks to logging boss Zac Stephens. High river levels and fast currents combined with the huge raft threaten to destroy levees at River's Bend, flood the town, and endanger the townsfolk. What can Bill do to deal with this monster? Can he pilot or possibly destroy the raft safely?

Park Service Web Rangers

The National Park Service offers a great place for kids called Web Rangers. Web Rangers is part of the service's web site at www.nps.gov/webrangers/.
Kids create their own ranger identity and set up their own personal ranger station. After that they can do all kids of activities related to parks. Topics covered are animals, trees, various national parks, and much, much more. Kids also get an ID badge and earn patches, all printable on your computer printer.
I have spent some time there and had a great time. I can tell that several Ranger Bill fans have already found and use this great site, because ranger names such as Ranger Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf are all taken.
If you are interested in Ranger Bill's Junior Rangers, email us and we will get our rangers online.