I would like to add this thought, too: When the rangers are stretched so thin that responsibilities resemble those befitting a sheriff, (rather than the interactive services that were once offered) Folks begin to view the rangers with the same wary eye as they do a "cop". (sort of the paranoia I feel when the state trooper is following me on the highway....uh-oh...which infraction did he witness??) I believe that the volunteer serves as a great smiling faced PR guy, a buffer so to speak, between the enforcer and.....Smokey Bear (wrong agency!)

The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.