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Show 54 Chapter Two. The Forest Service. Missoula is a pleasant university tovin set in the foothills of a Rocky Mountain range, but f l a t enough for Karen to ride her bike to class. Because of a l l the changes she'd made in her major, she would require three years of classwork to graduate from Montana State with a degree in Forestry. But right from the s t a r t she had the kind of classes she vianted: wildlife biology, forest ecology, and studies of water and s o i l. She liked Missoula so well that she decided to spend her summers there, and again vias a crevi leader for the Youth Conservation Corps, this time at an a l l - g i r l camp in the Lolo National Forest. It was an interesting contrast to the co-ed camps she'd attended previously. "At the co-ed camps," Karen says, "the g i r l s viere afraid, at least at the beginning of summer, to be seen with shovels in their hands because the boys might think them unfeminine. Most of them got over that, though. By the end of summer, they were determined to show that they could do anything that the boys could do." At the a l l - g i r l Lolo Forest camp, the crevi members never had to worry about how they looked to the opposite sex, and they turned out incredible amounts of work. Since the Forest Service wanted to know how participants f e l t about the camps, they polled the 24 Corps girls at Lolo. Unanimously, the g i r l s said they preferred all-female enrollment. They did heavy work thinning trees in the conifer forest. Although the younger g i r l s viere only allowed to use pruning shears, the 18-year- |