{"id":11835,"date":"2016-10-26T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:49:36","slug":"honorary-ranger-william-howard-skinner-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/10\/26\/honorary-ranger-william-howard-skinner-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary Ranger William &#8220;Howard&#8221; Skinner Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Dedication Ceremony Held at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Sign-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11853 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Sign-1.jpg\" alt=\"sign-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Sign-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Sign-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Sign-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a><\/span> recognized the lifelong contributions of Honorary Ranger William \u201cHoward\u201d Skinner Oct. 21 with a dedication ceremony at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/central\/fairhill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area<\/a><\/span>.<!--more-->A life-long resident of the property, now managed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Park Service<\/a>, Howard Skinner was\u00a0the first volunteer in the state to receive the &#8216;Honorary Ranger&#8217; title.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MPS-Staff-and-Skinner-Family_October2016-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11856 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MPS-Staff-and-Skinner-Family_October2016-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"mps-staff-and-skinner-family_october2016-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MPS-Staff-and-Skinner-Family_October2016-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MPS-Staff-and-Skinner-Family_October2016-1-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/MPS-Staff-and-Skinner-Family_October2016-1-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tract of land east of Appleton Road and west of Little Egypt Road, as well as the family home, have been formally designated as the &#8216;Honorary Ranger William &#8220;Howard&#8221; Skinner Area&#8217;, as approved by the <a href=\"http:\/\/bpw.maryland.gov\/MeetingDocs\/2016-June-8-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Public Works<\/a> June 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Skinner-Children-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11855\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Skinner-Children-1.jpg\" alt=\"skinner-children-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Skinner-Children-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Skinner-Children-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Skinner-Children-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family, friends and community members were in Cecil County to pay homage to Skinner\u2019s legacy and share stories of his devotion to Fair Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedication Ceremony Held at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recognized the lifelong contributions of Honorary Ranger William \u201cHoward\u201d Skinner Oct. 21 with a dedication ceremony at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11835"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}