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American children's nature magazine

Ranger Rick, originally Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine, is a children's nature magazine that is published by the United States National Wildlife Federation. The magazine offers feature articles and activities for children ages 8 and up in order to spark their interest in the outdoors and encourage them to become more actively involved in protecting the environment. NWF also publishes two companion magazines, Ranger Rick Jr., which is aimed at ages 4–8, and Ranger Rick Cub, which is aimed at kids 0–4 years old.

In 1959, John Ashley "Ash" Brownridge (1917–2015), under the pseudonym John A. Morris, wrote the book "The Adventures of Rick Raccoon" starring an anthropomorphic raccoon named Rick and his friends at the Deep Green Wood. After seeing a book a colleague sent from Japan that featured a tanuki, he was inspired to create a book to teach children the value of conservation. Two years later, in 1960, he wrote another book entitled "Ranger Rick and the Great Forest Fire". Then, in January 1967, the first issue of Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine was published. The magazine was so popular that, by 1972, NWF's membership had tripled. The first illustrator of the magazine was painter Lorin Thompson, who drew the characters in a realistic yet expressive manner. In 1982, he was replaced by Alton Langford, who redesigned the existing characters and introduced new characters Scarlett Fox and Boomer Badger. In 1999, Robby Gilbert took over as the new illustrator, coinciding with the magazine's shift from short stories to comic strips. In 2009, British company TheCharacterShop became the new illustrators, rendering the comics as three dimensional images. In 2016, TheCharacterShop, under the direction of Parker Jacobs, gave the comics a new two dimensional cartoony style.

Numerous characters have appeared in the magazine series. The current main three characters from the magazine's monthly comics are as follows:

Ranger Rick is a raccoon that serves as the park ranger and leader of Deep Green Wood. He was first portrayed extinguishing a forest fire in the first issue. Scarlett Fox is an American red fox that wears a red bandana (formerly with her initials on it). Coming from the lower Appalachian Mountains in her debut in 1983, she was portrayed with a Southern accent, which was soon dropped. Fitting the stereotype of clever foxes, she is cunning and quick witted, leading her own advice column called "Ask Scarlett" in the 1990s and from 2018 onward. As Ranger Rick's deputy, she can take command of a situation in an instant. Boomer Badger is an American badger first appearing in 1984 who prefers to lay around and play games rather than take care of the environment, and he is shown in modern issues to love electronic devices.

Ranger Rick has a circulation of 525,000, and an estimated 200,000 more children are exposed to the magazine via passed along copies. The headquarters is in Reston, Virginia. The magazine uses an environmentally friendly processed paper, which is composed of consumer waste (about 30%) and is absent of chlorine. Vegetable oils largely make up the magazine's actual ink. Ranger Rick made changes within its content It has its origins in Your Big Backyard, a magazine aimed at preschoolers and kids ages 3 to 7. It was established in 1979 as a sister publication to Ranger Rick and Wild Animal Baby, both published by the National Wildlife Federation. The bulk of the magazine consisted of children's activities. The name of the magazine was changed to Big Backyard in September, 2011. In December 2012 NWF merged Wild Baby Animal and Big Backyard to create a new magazine for children ages 4 to 7, called Ranger Rick, Jr A stop motion live action special was aired during the 1980s on PBS. In 2021, Red Rock Films announced a partnership with the National Wildlife Federation and Bix Pix Entertainment to develop a new streaming series based on Ranger Rick's adventures.