Junior Ranger Day will offer an opportunity Saturday for youngsters to learn more about the jobs of the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
Volunteers and staff will be on hand to demonstrate the work of archaeologists, park guides, and cultural demonstrators at the fort.
The session will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is part of National Park Week, which offers free admission to all units of the national park system through Sunday. See http://www.nps.gov/fova for more information.
Visitors can also get a glimpse of a new youth volunteer program, the Young Engagé School. An engagé was a tradesman working under contract to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Young volunteers can train in a variety of skills of the 1840s as they rotate through the carpenter shop, kitchen, fur store and clerk’s office.
