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

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By Jessica Kutz, The 19thMar 8, 2025, 9:00 am672 ptsHotTop
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 when she came across a friend’s Instagram post about a women in wildland firefighting bootcamp, she thought to…

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