Category: Chainsawing

• Bone Cutters, Forgotten Armies, and Fire: A History of Women in Tree Felling

  Today, tree felling is relevant for three primary reasons: logging, landscaping, and fighting fire. How do women factor into these industries, particularly logging and firefighting, and how has their involvement in these fields changed over time? How is it that Microsoft Word’s spell check considers Lumberjack a proper noun, yet does not even consider lumberjill…

  maryevelynmaggie

  March 28, 2021

  Chainsawing, Conservation Work, Felling, Women in Conservation

  Lumberjills, women fellers, women in wildland firefighting, women's history month, Women's Timber Corps