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Boots and bassinets

A pregnant woman wearing baseball cap holding chainsaw in the woods.
Jamey Toland stands watch. (USDA Forest Service photo) Sarah King remembers one time when she was focusing on the day’s task of preparing an area of the Custer Gallatin National Forest in southwestern Montana to be burned to reduce the threat of future wildfire. Maintaining her…
#WomenFirefighters, #Firefighters, #WildlandFire, #Women, #FireAndAviationManagement, #Fire

Archaeology on the forest

Three uniformed forest service employees stand with contented looks on their faces on a rocky outcropping in front of a wall with painted pictographs.
Kristen Francis is an assistant district archaeologist on the Kaibab National Forest in Arizona. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt) As Kristen Francis looks out across the quiet expanse of the Kaibab Plateau in Northern Arizona, she wonders at what all the land has seen and what we…
historic preservation, #Arizona, #Women, #Pictographs, archaeologist
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