The summer is an especially busy time for the NTS Rangers at Brodick Country Park. They do an amazing job – from monitoring vegetation and bracken bashing in Glen Rosa, to organising a programme of exciting activities and events for locals and visitors, to sea shore scrambles with COAST. They even manage to fit in a Tuesday Talk at the Heritage Museum! The following account tells of how the ranger role began back in 1981 when the castle grounds were designated a Country Park and D.W. Warner was appointed the first full time Ranger. Here is their story, from issue 8 of The Arran Naturalist, the journal of the Arran Natural History Society. (And even some jokes sent in from Arran children to amuse at the end!). You can keep up to date with all the Ranger’s adventures today on their Facebook page here
