Barnes (Fallout 76)

Ranger Barnes was a park ranger in Appalachia before the Great War.

Background
Barnes and his partner, Ranger Gabriel Trujillo, were stationed at a cabin at the Dolly Sods Wilderness. Compared to Trujillo, Barnes was much more strict and cautious, once giving out 12 citations in a day and also fearing that the Pioneer Scouts would ruin the pristine campgrounds during their upcoming visit.

Trujillo considered him to be a strange person, although his decisive action during events such as a forest fire in July - saving the lives of two campers - made Trujillo happy to have him as a partner.

Behind the scenes

 * In the cut notes Barnes' journal and Barnes' last note, a ranger named Roy Barnes is mentioned who may have been an earlier version of Barnes and was involved in the quest Suicide Run which was also cut. The notes detail Roy's actions after the War, notably how he felt he had been reduced from a ranger to a grounds keeper, and his efforts to keep mole rats out of Dolly Sods Wilderness. Roy eventually resorted to using homemade land mines to try and kill the mole rats, but after placing them had second thoughts and died whilst trying to disarm them.
 * Roy Barnes and his attempts to kill mole rats with explosives are a reference to the character of Carl Spackler in the 1980 movie Caddyshack. Both of them were grounds keepers trying to keep burrowing animals out of their respective locations, felt that they were fighting a war with these animals, and eventually resorted to explosives to try and finally kill them. Barnes' Journal is also a word for word copy of one of Spackler's lines, apart from substituting mole rat for gopher.

Appearances
Barnes is mentioned only in Fallout 76.