High Sierra Topix

Step it up, ladies. We need more women to take outdoor jobs. Items like this should be so commonplace they are no longer newsworthy.


https://www.kctv5.com/news/us_world_new ... fb469.html

Of course, Chief Ranger at Yellowstone is more desk job than a field job. Probably don't get out of the office much.

Fairness and equality is good news for everyone, not just "ladies". All qualified park employees should have a chance at leadership positions. I would hardly say that a park superintendent is a "desk job". It is a leadership role; very different. Although all of us who use wilderness worship field personnel and would like to see more, management makes a big difference in park policy.

Apparently the news has ignored quite a number of women who've been in place for years... Plenty of us in the national forests and parks already. I'm a trail crew leader, we report to a female supervisor at the forest service who reports to a female supervisor, we have a female FS trail crew leader, a female volunteer liaison... think it's the other way around. No one pays attention. All women trail crews exist too -- one of them cleared the trail in Tehipite a couple of years ago.

Sorry, but I'm paying attention already, and don't see there's as much of a deficit as you think.

Seems to me the chief ranger at Grand Canyon is also a woman...

And the tone of that article is pretty condescending, too. I think the journalist just woke up yesterday.

AlmostThere wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 8:45 am And the tone of that article is pretty condescending, too. I think the journalist just woke up yesterday.

To be fair, it's still 1990 in Wyoming. They just recently got cell phones :-D