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  • From: James Gaar <blindrodie@hotmail.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Article in current Trail Rider
  • Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:24:40 -0500

I hope everyone gets the chance to read the excellent article by the esteemed
Irvin Lichtenstein. Pretty cool to be on this list
with him and you all!!

I'm in Lone Jack MO
now on a small farm.
Gotta love the country life...

Jim Gaar

> On Aug 14, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Una Smith <una.smith@att.net> wrote:
>
> How have you been? I'd like to hear!
>
> Here in northern New Mexico USA all the mounted SAR teams have been busy.
> Several of our state police districts have been running far above average
> in number of SAR missions. We even have a new team over in Farmington.
>
> Mounted teams are so valuable for the greater distance and speed they can
> travel compared to a searcher on foot, potential for the rider to focus
> on detecting clues while the horse negotiates the terrain, and potential
> for the horse to detect (air scent) the subject. It helps that our state
> SAR Resource Officer is a former mounted SAR responder.
>
> Una Smith
> Los Alamos, New Mexico
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