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  • From: Pennbo <pennbo@bbv.net>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Montana Horses need evacuation
  • Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:29:14 -0700

We're facing a lot of the same issues are you Irv. Compounded by difficult access and dirt roads! We have very few large horse operations and they are pretty self-sufficient anyways. In fact they are usually volunteering their extra trailers for our use. Mostly we have individual owners with one or more animals. I would really like to 'map' the backyard owners in our small valley. The biggest difficulty we have is in collecting all horses/livestock in one area at the same time. At this point we rely on phone calls into the SO. They are added to a list and then a team has to be assigned to them. I keep thinking that it might very well save time if we knew ahead of time how many animals (without transportation) were in each area. Then we could send teams in to get specified numbers of animals in a mandatory evacuation situation. Our area is also complicated because of the cross-over about WHO really has authority to remove those animals. If we had them identified ahead of time we could also work on getting releases signed that would give one of several organizations the right to transport to safety.

I have a couple of documents made up for recording animal evac info- both for field teams and command post. If anyone wants to see them I would be happy to send them. I would appreciate comments on improving them and I would like to see any that other teams have in existence. The idea with these forms is to eventually get some individual sheets made up into triplicate pads. The paper trail would be much quicker then!

Chris Pennington





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