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Although he often encountered armed trespassers, Mr. Johnson was never seriously threatened by a sportsman angry at the interruption in the chase. “I never felt like my life was in danger." he said. “But I have been in a few situations where I didn’t like the person standing behind me with a gun!
“You have to be a hard-nosed cop when the situation calls for it, and then you have to turn around the next minute and be pleasant to a park visitor,” Mr. Johnson continued, elaborating on the duties of a modern ranger. “You’re a law officer during hunting season, and you know you’re going to run into guns.”
But unlike the deputy or game warden in a county bordering the park, the ranger deals — for the most part — with strangers, not local residents.
“They’re people from all over the United States. When you get out of your car to make a traffic stop on Skyline Drive, you don’t know who you'll encounter.”
The ranger is a game warden tracking a poacher, a law enforcement officer armed with a search warrant and then a public health official and Better Business Bureau representative overseeing food serv
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