Ranger Rick Raccoon reminisces with his animal friends about the day they saved Shady Pond from trash and pollutants and decided to form Ranger Rick's Nature Club to guard and protect wild and beautiful places forever.
While in Montana, Ranger Rick Raccoon and his animal friends find out about a project to use beavers to help renew overgrazed land by damming streams and creating ponds.
Ranger Rick and his animal friends rescue a rare woodland caribou who is trapped on a ledge and find that he is part of a small herd being protected and studied in the mountains of Idaho.