Features
Each issue includes nonfiction articles about various environmental and animal topics, fictional story-like articles, and color photography throughout. Also included in the magazine are activities such as nature-themed games, activities that get children to actively learn more about their environments, riddles, and jokes. Most of the pages of the magazine feature multi-page photo stories of animals in their natural habitats. There are also illustrated stories, games, riddles, nature news, poetry, contests, and other features and columns. Ranger Rick also refers to the protagonist in a long standing feature of Ranger Rick magazine, Ranger Rick's Adventures (originally titled Ranger Rick and his Friends). The feature is published in the form of an illustrated short story, in which Ranger Rick — a raccoon wearing a park ranger's hat — and his gang of friends from Deep Green Wood explore the world, often encountering threats to wildlife and environmental problems. Rick or any one of his friends, including Boomer Badger and Scarlett Fox, always finds a solution to whatever problem they encounter, thus encouraging children to do their part to protect their natural environment.
Previous Ranger Rick magazines have featured these and other adventure stories:
- recycling Christmas trees as a means of helping to provide proper habitat for fish (December 2009-January 2010);
- Rick and Scarlett pulling an April Fool trick on Boomer Badger to get him away from his TV and computer and to get out into nature and fresh air (April 2009);
- realizing the hazards of long fishing lines at sea (June and July 2008); illustrated by Rob Gilbert/Robby Gilbert.
- struggling with alien species in the Florida Everglades (February 2007). illustrated by Rob Gilbert/Robby Gilbert.
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