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Cortez Masto presses Forest Service on end of women’s wildfire boot camps, requests staffing numbers
Summary
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto pressed Forest Service staff during a meeting about why a women-focused wildfire "boot camps" program was discontinued under the Trump administration and asked how many Forest Service employees in Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin had left since the start of the administration; a Forest Service staff member said the agency did not have those numbers on hand but would provide them.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto pressed Forest Service staff during a meeting about why a women-focused wildfire "boot camps" program was discontinued under the Trump administration and asked how many Forest Service employees in Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin had left since the start of the administration; a Forest Service staff member said the agency did not have those numbers on hand but would provide them.
Cortez Masto said she was "upset to learn that the Trump administration scrapped the women in the wildfire boot camps program" and described the program as one offering "programs that were offered to women to learn the basics of wildland firefighting over a 2 week course." She…
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