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Updated: June 18, 2013 1:37:42 PM PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them America's first park rangers.  Full Story
 
 

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