Mounted search and rescue

[Doug Reynaud <dreynaud@openspaceauthority.org>]

Una, Our primary scope of duty would be trail patrol a vehicule for public contact and interpratation, GPS and GIS work , fence maintanance, invasive and native plant mapping ,trail maintance and any other task that could be accomplished in the back country mounted. We are all first responders and the MSAR status definitly could play a role . Getting back to the Patrol Manual I t is 20 pages long, how would be the best way to share it-Doug

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Una Smith <una.smith@att.net> wrote:

Doug,

Could your agency lease the horses from their owners?  You would need a
contract that spells out rights and responsibilities.  Eg, in event of
an emergency call out, does the employee's work start when they get the
call, when they load the horse into the trailer, or when they arrive at
incident base?  Does delivering the horse to incident base fall under
services provided as part of the lease, or is it part of the agency's
use of the leased horse?  You might look at rural route postal service
delivery as a model:  how are privately owned mail delivery vehicles
accounted for?  Another possible model is privately owned school buses.

Please keep us informed what you work out, Doug.  Although most MSAR
responders are non-paid volunteers, many do operate under the command
of a public safety department and the department may have employees
who would like to participate in MSAR.

       Una Smith
       New Mexico

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