Episode Fourteen - Anne Millbrooke

Anne Millbrooke is a retired history professor at Montana State University in Bozeman. Earlier this year, after becoming fed up with the government budget cuts, especially to the forest service, Anne walked into a Forest Service office and volunteered to be a fire watch. At first, she was given a couple of more mundane tasks, but the Forest Service eventually gave her a chance to man one of their fire watch towers, in the Little Belt Mountains. The best part of Anne's story is that she had tried to volunteer for the same job when she was in college, but was turned down because she was a woman. So at 73 years old, she finally got her chance, and her description of the experience is fascinating.