{"id":48300,"date":"2017-08-22T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=48300"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T23:03:15","slug":"park-ranger-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/park-ranger-training\/","title":{"rendered":"For National Park Service&#8217;s 101st birthday, learn about NAU&#8217;s park ranger training program (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video by <strong>Erik Sather<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>NAU-TV<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With its proximity to half a dozen national parks, it should be no surprise that Northern Arizona University is home to one of only a few <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/sbs\/gpr\/prm\/park-ranger-training-program\/\">park ranger training programs<\/a> in the country. The program is intense, requiring physical fitness training, night and weekend sessions and classes five days a week during the semester, and students are given real-life training scenarios to prepare them for the task.<\/p>\n<p>The certification is available in conjunction with a bachelor&#8217;s degree program or as a non-credit option for people who have already earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>For the National Park Service&#8217;s 101st birthday on Aug. 25, learn more about NAU&#8217;s park ranger training program.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Park Ranger Training program\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0h6YhRQbaHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/park-ranger-training\/\">Video by Erik Sather NAU-TV With its proximity to half a dozen national parks, it should be no surprise that Northern Arizona University is home to one of only a few park ranger training programs in the country. The program is intense, requiring physical fitness training, night and weekend sessions and classes five days a&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":48302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}