Mounted search and rescue

["IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>]

Often called slime green the color is used for personnel in construction and
roadside locations due to the prevalence of orange lights, cones, drums,
etc. It makes the people stand out in that background.  In the woods where
brown trees and green leaves prevail hunter's orange is a preferred color.
It also has the advantage of being associated with fellow hunters, not law
enforcement types as the green is.  You do not want to wear a color or
combination that occurs in nature in the area you are searching.  For
instance in the PA woods never wear brown and white, particularly white
gloves since whitetail deer and the poachers who shoot them out of season
are always around.  

Florescent is supposed to be more visible than merely bright but one
township painted all their highway and fire apparatus that green and their
accident rate went up.  The population couldn't associate the green with
service vehicles and didn't identify them as such.  There is also the
possibility that red/green color blind people would not see the green. 
They went back to red fire trucks (yellow didn't work out either) and orange
highway maintenance vehicles. 

Irv Lichtenstein