I'm Jason Epperson. This is the America's National Parks podcast and it's time for the latest in National Park news.

First up, a ranger at Bryce Canyon National Park died from injuries sustained after tripping and falling while on duty.

Around 1130 p.m. on Friday June 7th Park Ranger Tom Loring was working with Park visitors at Bryce Canyon's annual astronomy

festival while directing a visitor to a shuttle bus. Ranger Lorg fell and struck his head on a large

rock, finding him unresponsive, the

visitor quickly notified a nearby law enforcement ranger. National Park

Rangers, medically trained bystanders, and local EMS personnel cooperated to provide initial life saving care but

were unsuccessful in reviving Ranger Loring.

He was 78 years old.

Quote, Tom Lorg served Bryce Canyon, the National Park Service, and the public as an

interpretive park ranger forging connections between the world and the special places that he loved, said

Park Superintendent Jim Ireland, as our community

processes and grieves this terrible loss, we extend our deepest condolences to all of Ranger

Lorg's family and friends. Ranger Lorg began his work with the National Park

Service at Carlsbad Caverns in June of 1968 in the decades that

followed he would serve at 14 National Park sites, including Badlands, Bryce,

Carl's Bad, Olympic, Suwaro, Yosemite, Zion, and Dinosaur National Monument of which he was

especially fond. A landslide has taken out an entire section of Highway on Teton Pass, which connects Jackson, Wyoming, the Southern Gateway Community for Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks with the Idaho Falls area.

The collapse forces a long-term closure to a highway that is a main artery for many of the people

that work in Jackson serving the local community and millions of tourists.

Many workers can't afford to live in Jackson, which has some of the most expensive real estate in the country,

and what little rental housing there is is now lodging.

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