Editing National Park Service (section)

===Employees===
[[File:NPS Staffing(1998-2009).JPG|thumb|left|National Park Service employment levels. Executives: abt 27; Gen Sch: 16–17,000; Others: 6–7,000<ref>Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Fiscal Year nnnn Budget Justifications;, where nnnn = 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2009</ref>]]

By the mid-1950s, the primary employees of the service were the park rangers, who had broad responsibilities on the parks' behalf. They cleaned up trash, operated heavy equipment, fought fires, managed traffic, cleared trails and roads, provided information to visitors, managed museums, performed rescues, flew aircraft, and investigated crime.<ref>''Park Ranger, The Work, Thrills and Equipment of the National Park Rangers'', Colby, C.B.; Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1955</ref>

The NPS employs many kinds of workers:
* [[National Park Service Ranger]]
** Interpreter
** [[National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers|Law enforcement]]
* Park management (Superintendent/Deputy)
* [[United States Park Police]]
* Emergency management (Emergency medical providers, search and rescue specialists)
** Lifeguards
* [[Dispatcher]]s
* Maintenance (including [[Carpentry|carpenters]], [[Plumbing|plumbers]], masons, laborers, auto mechanics, motor vehicle operators, [[heavy equipment operator]]s, [[electrician]]s)
* Park planning
** [[Architect]]s, [[engineer]]s, and [[landscape architect]]s
* Resource management (including archeologist, [[biologist]], [[botanist]], aquatics, soil scientist, [[geologist]])
* History ([[curator]]s, [[historian]]s, preservation technicians, historic architects, [[archivist]]s)
* Fire management (managers, weather specialist, [[firefighter]]s, engine captains, crew superintendents, battalion chiefs)
* Public affairs
* Administration (human resources, finance, accountants, information technology, budgeting, concessions management)

Locations are varied. Parks exist in the nation's larger cities like [[New York City]] ([[Federal Hall]] Memorial National Historic Site), [[Atlanta]] ([[Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site]]), and [[San Diego]] ([[Cabrillo National Monument]]) to some of the remotest areas of the continent like [[Hovenweep National Monument]] in southeastern Utah, to [[Aniakchak National Monument]] in [[King Salmon, Alaska]].<ref>''Careers in the National Parks''; Gartner, Bob; The Rosen Publishing Company, New York; 1993</ref>