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Show 95 S t a r t i n g the motor, Jan s h i f t e d the truck into forward and reverse again and again u n t i l the rock scooted backward into the hole. All four wheels touched the ground, and Jan drove away. Back in Price that night, she d i d n ' t mention to anyone what had happened. "I vias the only vioman viorking there that summer, and I d i d n 't want to l i s t e n to any cracks about viomen d r i v e r s . There are s t i l l a few people who think that viomen c a n ' t do a good job in the f i e l d . That strikes me as an ignorant a t t i t u d e , because in my l i n e of viork t h e r e 's nothing a vioman c a n ' t do. Physical strength is not an advantage unless your truck gets stuck somevihere, and even then, if you use your brain, you can usually get out of i t okay." The summer a f t e r her sophomore year Jan returned to P r i c e , again working alone in the f i e l d . She did a l i t t l e b i t of erosion study, but mostly she sampled the plant growth on selecte d plots of ground - her findings would be compared to records taken in e a r l i e r years. That way the BLM could t e l l vihether c e r t a i n weeds, shrubs, or trees were spreading in an area. Jan got a change of scene that summer when she traveled by h e l i c o p t er to the Green River, vihere she helped a w i l d l i f e s p e c i a l i s t count deer droppings. Since w i l d l i f e experts know how many p e l l e t s a single deer will drop in one day, they can get an idea of the number of deer using an area by counting the p e l l e t s in a p l o t . The work was a b i t tedious, but the scenery - Whitewater rapids splashing betvieen rough sandstone cliffs - made i t worthwhile. By her junior year Jan was taking r e a l courses in Range Management |
