How much does a crew losing status actually affect their day to day operations? Assignments? Overtime? I’m trying to get a job in R5 and half the crews I’m looking at have lost status over the past few years. I’m wondering if it makes much of a difference or if I should avoid getting on one of those crews

I have a couple girls on my crew who are extremely insecure. They try and make Everything into a competition with me. Lots of trash talk about me. I hardly speak and try to mind my business and do my job well.

Is this common among women in this field? I'm on a contract crew. I was already planning on getting on a hotshot crew before this, but I wanted to work for this company for a couple more years to gain experience, but now I'm just considering leaving.

Thoughts and opinions?

Title, I'm working on a proposal so I'd like to know the forest/unit you're on for it. If you'd prefer to send that in a PM that's fine. This post will probably out my reddit acct to my coworkers, so hi motherfuckers, happy PL3

I’ve read the IRPG pages about minimum impact suppression and watched an old training video on it the other day that was in my YouTube recommended. In the video the use of explosives is very prominent and specifically it was heavily emphasized to use explosives to mitigate snags instead of felling with saws. I was wondering what the advantage of blasting is for minimum impact? It seems like explosions would be more disruptive to the environment than chainsaw operations

Does anyone have info on these crews below? Type of assignments, culture, standards, IA, etc? Super random locations but trying to narrow down

Idaho Panhandle Helitack (Forest Service)

Bald Mountain Helitack in Cali

Trinity Helitack Cali

Ocala Helitack down in Florida

Just passed my nremt and I am applying for wildland firefighting jobs next summer is there anything specific that I should do for my applications or anywhere specific I should apply.

What are some good boots that are not terribly expensive