Richard E. Brown

Rick Brown served for 30 years with the National Park Service as a Protection Ranger. Over the course of his career he worked in four different National Park Areas on permanent assignments, and in numerous other parks, preserves, and reservations on temporary and emergency assignments. His career path took him from a field ranger, Supervisory Park Ranger, to Chief Park Ranger. He recieved numerous awards over the course of his career for exceptional performance, Special Achievement Awards, Exemplary Act Awards for Search & Rescue, Law Enforcement and Emergency Management missions. He also recieved the two highest awards in the Nation for National Park Service Rangers, The Department of Interior Valor Award, and the Harry Yount - Ranger of the Year Award.

Rick retired from the National Park Service in 2007 and currently is a part time instructor in the National Park Service approved Seasonal Law Enforcement Training Academy at Southwestern Community College in Franklin, NC, a Swiftwater and Technical Rope Rescue Instructor, and is working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Disaster Response Team as an emergency response specialist.

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