Colorado Firecamp's next S-212, Wildland Fire Chain Saws classes are:

• April 20-23, 2009 (mid-week class, Mon.—Thur.)

• May 28-31, 2009
  (Thur.—Sun.)

• June 25-28, 2009
  (Thur.—Sun.)

USFS Region 2 Chainsaw Policy — February, 2005

CSFS Faller Qualification Guidelines — May, 2006

Wildland Fire Chain Saw Glossary — S-212 Pre-course work

• ANSI — Butt
• Calks — Crossing the Lead
• Danger Tree — FSM
• Grounding — Humboldt Undercut
• Indirect Attack — Open-face Cut
• Peavey — Root Wad
• Safety — Swamp Out
• Tension — Windfall

Big Creek Fire Accident — August, 2006

Apart from safety, safety, safety — shop instruction is perhaps the most valuable to apprentice sawyers: learning how to tear-down, inspect, re-assemble, and properly adjust a chainsaw in the field.

You probably couldn't get this crew to sing along — but if Maria hadn't gone off to be a nanny in “The Sound of Music” — she might have trained to become a sawyer: “...besides which you see I have confidence in me.”