Illustrated Canadian Forestry Magazine, December, ip20 



613 



Women as Fire Fighters. 



Albuquerque, N. M., women helped in 

 the hazardous game of fire-fighting dur- 

 ing the past season in the Southwest, ac- 

 cording to the forest officer? of several of 

 the Arizona and New Mexico Forests. 

 Some were stationed on • the lookout 

 towers of lonely high peaks, others work- 

 ing remote forest telephone exchanges 

 through many hours when the danger 

 was acute, and others on the very fire 

 line itself, leading or fighting the fires 

 with the hastily assembled crews. Forest 

 fire fighting has generally been conceded 

 a full sized man's job, but the long annals 

 of the Forest Service throughout the 

 West are filled with stories of women 

 taking a helping hand at the various 

 phases of the game. This past season in 

 the Southwest was no exception. 



On the Rincon Mountains, a part of 

 the Coronado Forest in Southern Ari- 

 zona, the high Spud Rock Lookout was 

 "manned" during the fire season by Mrs. 

 Lyle B. Smith, wife of the local Forest 

 Ranger. Mrs. Smith, in addition to her 

 lookout duties, cleaned and brushed out 

 a number of miles of trail in the vicinity 



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of her tower. She had occasion late one 

 night during the season to make a search 

 of ten miles, with a fire guard and tools, 

 across the mountains for a reported fire. 



The West Benefits. 



Referring to the Tree Planting Cam- 

 paign of the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion in the Prairie Provinces last sum- 

 mer, the Calgary Herald states : 



"The tour was so successful it will be 

 repeated next year. This is real educa- 

 tional work and bound to be productive 

 of lasting benefit to the West." 



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