Press Release – PAONIA, COLO. – High Country News, the nation’s leading source of reporting on the American West, just released the first feature in a continuing series of stories about women working in public-land agencies who are being harassed and abused by their male colleagues.
On Monday, May 31, 2016, High Country News published Trial by Fire, a frank and personal look at one of the public land’s most macho subcultures: wildland firefighting. Writer Krista Langlois tells the story of women who continue to blaze a new trail in firefighting while faced with many obstacles outside of the obvious challenges of combating dangerous fires in the West’s wild backcountry.
Read the complete story here: hcne.ws/trial-by-fire
Trial by Fire is part of a longer series of stories High Country News is covering about the challenges women face working for public lands agencies. Our reporters are conducting an ongoing investigation into the long history of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and gender discrimination in the National Park Service and other agencies, and how agency officials handle these complaints.
Read the stories we’ve written so far on the subject here: hcne.ws/legacy-of-harassment
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