Those rangers are way better than Uvalde cops.

Park rangers do not get the credit they deserve, serving in multiple ways, protecting people, maintaining order, educating the public, and supporting environmental preservation all at the same time.

This is the kind of response we want. Not cowards. Not bullies with badges. Service members who actually SERVE the public.

Well done to the woman who managed to get away to warn people too!

Park Rangers seem to be the people who want to be in law enforcement but also want to actually serve the public. I say this as a National Park geek who goes to dozens of sites every year. Nothing but respect for them.

They also believed her.

Federal workers, well trained and motivated. Republicans are going for them, vote Blue.

Vote against Project 2025! Freedom over fascism! Vote for your families and their freedom!

Hats off to the Yellowstone Park Rangers. Their diligence is totally worthy of respect.

Remember when it was park rangers who defied the Trump administration order to be silent about climate change issues? They went rogue and took it to social media. Park rangers are bad ass! 🤘

Good to hear law enforcement works better at national parks than it does in Texas grade-schools. Go Team.

One person died as opposed to several hundred. I’m so glad the National Park Service wasn’t complacent! I’m also really happy that the woman was taken seriously. Great job, Everyone!

I appreciate you for giving us the facts & not the spin regarding the incidents at Yellowstone...Bravo Beau !!!

Park rangers showing up the cops! Good job rangers!

And to think the GOP wants to defund them.

Who would have thought that a shining example of law enforcement would be park rangers. Bravo!

“To include the one that was hit” Getting hit and returning fire anyways,doesn’t get much more badass than that

Great job Park Rangers! I don’t know if they’re trained for this or not but either way that’s a great job, very disciplined and brave

I’m happy they believed her. These days it’s 50/50 if an officer of the law will take a woman seriously.

OMG! My wife and I were there all day! This would have happened right before we entered the park. We, and I would thankfully imagine most, had no clue. Thankful for the diligence and courage of the Park Rangers! ❤🤟

God bless the members of the National Park Service.

I'm so thankful they stopped this from happening!

My fellow LE Yellowstone Park Rangers did a great job, this is a shout out from an LE Park Ranger in VA. The lady was also very brave, I'm sorry she had to go through that ordeal. I agree with Beau: Stick to your training or in LE terms, "Complacency kills". Any Park Rangers in the chat will get this, "Send a Ranger." Love your work Beau and calling things like you see it.

Not just best practices, but courage under fire, courage under direct threat. Bless these rangers!

Thank you to the woman who acted so bravely and the US National Park Rangers who followed through and bravely did their job to protect us all.

Next time someone asks, "Who's gonna protect us if we defund the police?", my answer is going to be, "The National Park Service."

Professionalism at its best. I shudder to think what the National Park Service could become with Trump lackeys in charge.

From my experience, Park Rangers are generally better at serving & protecting than most state, county, and local authorities. They seem to fend for their parks with the tenacity of the old man next door who really wants you to stay of his lawn. It's so good to hear 'best practices' were relentless and effective in this scary story.

Can you imagine if the employees had no training and were new political hires?

I hadn't heard a word about this event. I used to be a park ranger. Take my word for it when they are on duty, they are professional.

Those park rangers really need to be lauded as American heroes.

Our Park Rangers (federal workers!) do not get enough credit or praise for the job they do. They are just quiet professionals doing the right thing day in and day out with little fanfare. Thank you to all the park rangers out there!

Kudos to the woman and to Yellowstone National Park staff! Sending good vibes to the ranger who was injured, I hope you heal fast. Thank you all for following this through. Heroes.

Best practices. Good phrase.

These events where training was implemented highlight the outrageous cowardice that happened at Uvalde.

Thank you National Park Rangers.

"You don't rise to the level of your expectations. You sink to the level of your training" It was one of the best lessons i ever learned. Glad the park rangers trained hard.

Federal Park Rangers are trained by Federal agencies.. The officers are equal to SWAT or DSS in more ways than you know. Their understanding of situational needs and actions are top notch. Happily not surprised after just hearing the details. Good on them.

So glad the Park Rangers stayed vigilant. I was grieving our constitution too much to go out in public.

Wonderful to hear a successful response. Thanks to all those brave rangers!!!

Salute to our park rangers ❤

But, but, but the 2A rights of that gunman supersede the rights of the diners and Park Rangers to life, right? Respect to the Park Rangers!

Glad to hear they took their job seriously and did the right thing. Good on them and the lady that reported it, despite being traumatized.

I'm glad the threat has been removed.

Beau, great job by those rangers, and KUDOS for the woman getting away and reporting it. I hope she's ok. Plus the injured ranger. Thankyou for truth without speculation,!👍🏼🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌🏽

THANK YOU to the Yellowstone Rangers who stayed with it and saw it through. We owe them a great debt. Thank you for reporting the important stuff, Beau. 💜🎯

Every DoI LEO I have ever worked with has been the paragon of professionalism and are some of the best trained we have.

good job rangers. Show the polic e how it should be done

God bless those who run to the sound of gunfire. To all the sons and daughters who survived give your thanks to those people.

The park rangers deserve commendations. There's a very good reason the word "best" is there.

Vigilance and due diligence often pay off.

Glad that the situation turned out as well as it did. Saddened that we have so many weapons available to the mentally unbalanced that we hear about situations like this that DON’T end up as well.

We always talk about “when good people do nothing “… and rarely “when good people take prudent actions.” This is when good people did the later. Bravo!

I remember a time that I wouldn’t have heard this as good news. Says a lot about the state of the nation that I do.

The National Park Service demonstrates over and over again that they are currently the closest thing we have to the United Federation of Planets

I have work with NPS doing wildland fire (including Yellowstone) and all of the rangers I worked were true professionals who do a wide range of public services from policing to EMS response, SAR, and wildlife interventions.

I worked in Wyoming at a store and was putting money away in the safe. I forgot to turn off the alarm. A whole team of officers showed up pointing guns at me. I explained what happened to them. Law enforcement there is serious.

THANK YOU... PARK RANGERS !! thank you for your training thank you for remembering it and thank you for protecting the people ... WELL DONE EVERYONE . WELL DONE 🙏

This is actually the first I've heard of this incident despite the fact that I recently moved out west and am much closer to Yellowstone than I was before. I'm taking it as a reminder that staying vigilant requires a lot of digging through the weapons of mass-distraction deployed in the online media space. Edit: After a cursory online search, apparently another person was arrested on Monday of this week for making similar threats in the same area and was employed by the same company as the perp.

Thank you to both the very brave woman and the Park Rangers who listened and did not give up the search! I have no doubt that many lives were saved because of them! Best get well wishes to the rangers that were hurt!

These rangers are heros.

Congratulations to those rangers. Absolutely fantastic job, and it is appreciated.

I certainly wish there was a way and a will to report averted disaster as powerful as there is to report disaster. Thank you.

Thanks for this, Beau. One other best practice they followed that I’d like to add to your list was they engaged the assailant directly, and kept pressing. There are people in Uvalde, Texas who can tell what happens when that best practice isn’t followed.

Those lives were saved because they believed a women who was attacked. Think of how many more lives could have been saved throughout history if authorities believed women more often.

8 hours of nothing and not giving up is brilliant. Well done, the Park Rangers.

Smokey the Common Sense Bears. Be there in November. And forever...

Let’s see how the news rolls over this one…and avoids this news cycle…

Excellent news and coverage.

Brave woman🩵🩵🍭🍬

I spent a significant number of years teaching EPA, NRC, and OSHA regulations for a national power producer. Following best practices is so vital. Lives are lost when they aren't. What happens is a guy who's been taking shortcuts for 5 years thinks the regulations are BS - nothing ever happens when you don't - then his number comes up and it's too late. Several photos show what happens to a person struck by high voltage. There's an entrance wound and an exit wound (much worse) very much like a gunshot but with burns throughout. It's horrific. I pray I stopped some disasters. Human nature is not good at appreciating the one in one hundred odds. Be safe everyone.

These people are out there. Forewarned is forearmed. Bless the rangers❤

This happened at Canyon Village, where I worked as a seasonal interpretive ranger in 2001 and 2004-6. I’ve eaten in that dining facility many times. So this really hits home. My flat hat is off to those brave rangers, and I wish a speedy recovery to the one who was shot. Heartfelt thanks to all NPS LEOs who work every day to keep us parkaholics safe!

That could have been disastrous.

Let's hear it for the rangers of the National Park Service! Thank goodness.

Latest news is that it was the employee dining room and all the people inside would have been employees of the main (not NPS) concessionaire. I was an employee dining room cook in Yellowstone for many seasons-yikes! Major respect for and thanks to everyone involved.

Thank you for this update. Trying to get accurate information about it has been like a bad game of telephone. Nobody has really reported on it either.

We really, as a populace, have to support our institutions. They're all there for a reason, which is to protect the people. There's always gonna be bad apples, just keep plucking them and setting them aside, just as we have been. The advent of cameras on smartphones really helps with that, where the populace can help police the police, but just remember, they are the police at the end of the day, and they're far more trained in the use of deadly force than nearly anyone, some military excluded.

Amazing! Men listening to a woman. God Bless the Rangers for bravery and concern for others.

So glad threat was taken serious and followed up on with best practices intensity. Avoided disaster. Thank you Rangers.

So its safer to send my child to a national park than a school.

Way to go Ranger Smith Yogi's proud of you.

I have heard many good things about park rangers. They are calm yet serious minded and get the job done. This one very very well done, thank you!!

At least they took the threat seriously and did their job tirelessly and stopped the threat.

This does not surprise me at all. The Park Service is a special organization, I did 7 seasons myself. There was generally a strong cooperative spirit at all the parks I worked at. Park Service people, in all divisions, from Law Enforcement to Interp to Maintenance all know that people look to us, regardless of our official role, when there is trouble. As my father, who was Fish and Wildlife which has a similar mindset, said, "All they see is the patch (on our uniforms), they don't know I'm just the maintenance man". For almost everyone I worked within my time there this meant you stepped up and you did what you could when there was a situation, because help was often a long way away, and all we had was our own staff, scattered across the park. We all trained on first aid, we all trained on crowd management, if nothing else we could lock down buildings or move people to safety, even if we were only the person running the visitor center or the ticket booth. There is a little bit in almost every park service job description, "Other duties as assigned", that's what it means, stepping up to do what you need to when the situation demands. Visitors to parks are very often out of their element, its kind of the point of parks, and it was the staff's job to keep them safe. Sometimes that's just doing the little things, reminding people to stay hydrated and seek shade, stick to the marked trails, informing them about environmental or wildlife related hazards, others times its this.

Thank goodness she was able to escape and set in motion this preventive chain reaction!

Certainly a teachable moment for SO many law enforcement agencies out there. Looking at you Uvalde.

I'm so pleased to hear that best practices were used and were successful.

I expect there's a lot more emphasis on safety in park ranger training compared to cop.

Thank you Beau

Montanan here, they handled the News Media well too.

Too often the motives are being under reported and even intentionally buried these days. They need to let the public know why these things happen. Edit: My apologies to the Park Rangers for not already acknowledging their clear thinking and bravery.

Best Practices...common sense, logic, and reasoning in the presence of danger. This should be the standard for every law enforcement officer!

Republicans are incredibly hostile to the department of the interior (which administers the NPS) and the agency is chronically underfunded. Call your reps and tell them you love the NPS!

More concerning to me is . this is the first I have heard anything about this.... why the media cover up?

This is what due diligence looks like. Measured by what doesn't happen.

Nice job Rangers. And a hopefully speedy and full recovery to the Ranger who was wounded.

Everyone is so wrapped up in the fact that Biden was old I hadn’t seen anything about this until today!

Thank you for reporting this ...

"Ranger Confidential" incredible book about the Rangers in our National Parks - They all deserve giant praise (and more $) for what they do.