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A ranger is typically someone in a law enforcement or military/paramilitary role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called "ranging" or "scouting". The term most often refers to:Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands and forests National Park Service ranger, an employee of the National Park Service U.S. Forest Service ranger, an employee of the United States Forest Service Ranger of Windsor Great Park, a ceremonial office of the UK Includes the Keepers of Epping Forest who are charged to "range" about the Forest in their duties Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: RangerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Protected area personnel and ranger numbers are insufficient to deliver global expectationsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Lone Star RangerThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ranger : A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and RCited 3,184 times
- Go sideways: Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: 20th Battalion (Central Ontario), CEFA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun One who ranges; a rover. A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
Noun A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
Noun A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
Noun That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
ranger : A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and R
Physiological Consequences of U.S. Army Ranger Training
Designed heterodimerizing leucine zippers with a ranger of pIs and stabilities up to 10−15 M
EfficientNet-B4-Ranger: A novel method for greenhouse cucumber disease recognition under natural complex environment
RANGER-DTL 2.0: rigorous reconstruction of gene-family evolution by duplication, transfer and loss
Improving Law‐Enforcement Effectiveness and Efficiency in Protected Areas Using Ranger‐collected Monitoring Data
12-Month Results From the First-in-Human Randomized Study of the Ranger Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon for Femoropopliteal Treatment
Spatiotemporal trends of illegal activities from ranger-collected data in a Ugandan national park
🆕 Influential since 2022
Protected area personnel and ranger numbers are insufficient to deliver global expectations
Robust building energy consumption forecasting using an online learning approach with R ranger
Jetstream Atherectomy Followed by Paclitaxel-Coated Balloons versus Balloon Angioplasty Followed by Paclitaxel-Coated Balloons: Twelve-Month Exploratory Results of the Prospective Randomized JET-RANGER Study
Ignorance as strategy: ‘Shadow places’ and the social impacts of the ranger uranium mine
Microbiological Risk Assessment in Foods: Background and Tools, with a Focus on Risk Ranger
📚 Books worth reading
The Lone Star RangerZane Grey · 1914
The Rustlers of Pecos CountyZane Grey · 1980
The Young ForesterZane Grey · 1910
Shadow on the TrailZane Grey · 1946
Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry · 1985
Desert solitaireEdward Abbey · 1968
Star RangersAndre Norton · 1953
LawlessDiana Palmer · 2003
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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