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Historians say civil‑rights era and later programs diversified Forest Service workforce but leadership lagged
Summary
Panel historian Donna Sinclair described how environmental and civil‑rights laws, targeted hiring and internal civil‑rights programs changed the Forest Service workforce from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Donna Sinclair, a historian who has studied Forest Service staffing, told a Missoula panel that the agency’s workforce diversified substantially beginning in the 1960s and 1970s as environmental mandates and civil‑rights laws opened new roles for women and people of color.
Sinclair said the agency historically had a homogeneous leadership of white men but that job programs, direct hires and internal civil‑rights…
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