HIGH COUNTRY NEWS - Gender Diversity on the Fire Line
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Gender Diversity on the Fire Line.
Women have a long history in the U.S. Forest Service, from the first all-woman wildland firefighting crew assembled in 1942 in California, to the first female smoke jumper in 1981. Women currently make up approximately 13% of the USFS work force. In August 2018, I accompanied some of the women and men fighting the Donnell Fire in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. A few of their stories were featured in an article in High Country News.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/photos-gender-diversity-on-the-fire-line-california-donnell
Women have a long history in the U.S. Forest Service, from the first all-woman wildland firefighting crew assembled in 1942 in California, to the first female smoke jumper in 1981. Women currently make up approximately 13% of the USFS work force. In August 2018, I accompanied some of the women and men fighting the Donnell Fire in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. A few of their stories were featured in an article in High Country News.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/photos-gender-diversity-on-the-fire-line-california-donnell
