The Source Weekly

Preparing the Next Generation for Fire Management

This March, environmental nonprofit Discover Your Northwest will host its inaugural Youth Wildland Fire Career Camp, a free ...
Yahoo

‘It’s all been scrapped’: Women in wildland firefighting bootcamps cancelled after DEI cuts

While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: We need to learn to live with wildland fire. As a firefighter, here is what Utahns can do to help keep each other safe.

I had a rewarding and successful wildland fire and fuels management career, and I feel the ultimate opportunity for giving back is in helping to develop the next generation of wildland fire and ...
USA Today

Veterans find new purpose in federal wildland fire service

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...
Grist

‘It’s all been scrapped’: Bootcamps for women in wildland firefighting canceled after DEI cuts

While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...
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‘It’s all been scrapped’: Women in wildland firefighting bootcamps canceled after DEI cuts

While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...