biography
It’s been a long time since I could answer the question, “What do you do?” with one word. Over the years, I’ve come to embrace having a multi-faceted, Swiss Army Knife kind of life.
SARAH BERNS has won an arm-wrestling match in the oldest saloon in Washington State; rounded up bison on horseback through the Palouse prairie; put her arm into a cow’s rear up to her shoulder to check on its unborn calf; and bucked hay bales under a once-in-a-millennium heat dome. But, before all that she was just another nice Jewish girl, growing up in suburban Massachusetts, wondering what she could become.
Sarah went West during college summers to work for the United States Forest Service and began to fight wildfires. After graduating with honors from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, she rappelled out of helicopters and jumped out of airplanes in order to fight blazes in the most remote and rugged areas of the American West.
