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'Pauline Bunyans' join logging teams.(NEWSWATCH)(Women in College logging team )(Brief Article)

Women in Higher Education

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During a recent weekend in California, Gina Lopez was looking forward to an obstacle course and a race-like-a-bear-is-after-you-tree-climbing contest at a logging competition. "It's a new era in forestry," commented the short, female, Latina, vegetarian UC Berkeley student.

Women are participating in their schools' logging teams, both in their own events and in "Jack and Jill" events. "Women move a saw the way it was meant to be moved, using the full length of it to take advantage of all the teeth," said Humbolt State University ...

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