Being Ranger Rick's deputy, she can take command of a situation in an instant. Due to the stereotype of foxes being smart, she is shown to be cunning and quick-witted, which led her own advice column called "Ask Scarlett" in the 1990s and from 2018 onwards. Coming from the lower Appalachian Mountains in her debut in 1983, she was portrayed with a Southern accent however, this was later dropped in recent issues. Scarlett Fox is an American red fox that wears a red bandana (formerly with her initials on it).He and his friends have many adventures together (as depicted in the magazine's regularly featured cartoon and fiction stories) and always looks for new ways to help preserve the environment. He was first portrayed extinguishing a forest fire in the first issue. Ranger Rick is a raccoon that serves as the park ranger and leader of Deep Green Wood.The current main three characters from the magazine's monthly comics are as follows: Numerous characters have appeared in the magazine series. Ranger Rick is the oldest and biggest children's nature magazine. In 2016, TheCharacterShop, under the direction of Parker Jacobs, gave the comics a new 2D style like cartoons. In 2009, British company TheCharacterShop became the new illustrators, rendering the comics into 3D. In 1999, Robby Gilbert took over as the new illustrator, coinciding with the magazine's shift from short stories to comic strips. In 1982, he was replaced by Alton Langford, who gave the characters a redesign and introduced new characters Scarlett Fox and Boomer Badger. The first illustrator of the magazine was painter Lorin Thompson, who drew the characters in a realistic yet expressive manner. The magazine was so popular, that by 1972, NWF's membership tripled in number, to work on the magazine.
Then, on January 1967, the first issue of Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine was published. Two years later, in 1960, he written another book entitled "Ranger Rick and the Great Forest Fire". 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. Morris, wrote the book "The Adventures of Rick Raccoon" starring an anthropomorphic raccoon named Rick and his friends at the Deep Green Wood. In 1959, John Ashley "Ash" Brownridge (1917–2015), under the pseudonym John A.