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Wemetty, December 4, 1968

“Pauline Bunyans*’ busy planting spruce seedling in the Prince Rupert Forest District.
Forest Service photo)

‘Pauline Bunyans plant tree seeds.

Paul Bunyan’s domain is being
invaded by women.

For the first time in the his-
ory of the British Columbia
Forest ‘Service, crews of wom
en are being employed to plant; fro
tree seedlings,

David Wallinger, ofthe re=.
forestation diviston, reports that
last spring crews of women plant-
ed. approximately. 145,000 tyo-
year-old’ spruce = Seedlings over
220 acres in thé Prince Rupert

_ Forest District:

At the present - time another
group of “‘Pauline Bunyans” from
Houston is~ busy planting hun
dreds of seedlings in the Me
Bride Lake area, approximately
40 miles west of Houston.

. ‘The ladies range in age from
19 to 43, and are paid the same
rates as men, Mr, Wallinger sald,

“And they ask for fo specias | pod
corsideration on the-job.’”

In past years, the reforestate|.
fon officer said, ‘seasonal plant.
ing -labor -had been recruited:

from logging crews laid off dur-
‘ing spring break-up, ‘perlods,
and -from - transient’; ‘sources,
But the turn-over rate among such
workers. .developed into - “an
alarming state,”

“Last spring Forest Ranger
Cart Simmons, attached to the
station at Telkwa,. near Smith
era, Made some inguirles; learn
eq that a. number of women in
the area were interested in suck
work; and soon organized two
crews. The ladies were given
several days of apectal train-

“The ‘women were quick to
learn,” Mr, _Wallinger contins

“and within: a very short
dant were planting almost as
many seedlings per day as, any
man.

“And all. reports indicate the
quality of planting was excel-
lent."

Forest Service officiais were
delighted with the new develop.
ment.: If the program continues
to prove successful, and there’s
‘every tndication it wild, & great.
er degree of. ‘atability ‘will be
provided the planting program
in many areas of the forest dis-

For a number of. years women
have been employed in seedling
nurseries throughout the pro-
vince, but never rag planting crews
in the Held, “-- .

Whether or not women will be
employed as.reforestation seedl-
ing planters in other parts of the
province, Mr, Watlinger explain
ed, depends largely on a vartety
of circumstances and general
labor market conditions, .

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