RMRG specializes in search and rescue on mountainous terrain or in extreme weather where other rescue units are ineffective. With its highly specialized equipment and training, RMRG can safely evacuate injured hikers and climbers from high angle cliff faces and steep, loose talus slopes and carry out searches for overdue hikers and downed aircraft. As dramatic as many of the Group's missions seem, much of the work performed by RMRG is the laborious task of carrying injured people safely and smoothly over rough terrain to accessible trail heads.
The Group has a long history of developing and evaluating new and safer mountain rescue techniques and equipment. RMRG has also developed specialized litters, braking systems, and rescue sleeping bags, and radio direction finding equipment. RMRG routinely tests and evaluates new climbing and rescue products that enter the market. Rapid advances in new materials and technologies now offer stronger, more reliable, and safer equipment for the rescuer. RMRG is dedicated to the advancement of safety and efficiency in mountain rescue.
RMRG averages 130 calls per year, with most activity occurring during the summer months and in Boulder County. Some "missions" resolve themselves before members arrive at the scene, but others may stretch out over days, weeks, and even years. This high volume of calls means that Group members are on call at all times, summer and winter, and most maintain a level of readiness that allows for multiple missions of indefinite duration.
Rocky Mountain Rescue Group (RMRG) is an all-volunteer organization specializing in search and rescue on mountainous terrain or in extreme weather. We average 15,000 hours per year of volunteer time, and respond to about 130 calls per year.
Finances. RMRG is an all volunteer, nonprofit organization. The Group does not assess any charges to those being assisted. Rocky Mountain Rescue does not wish to discourage calls for assistance simply because the caller fears financial obligation. Group members pay no dues. The donation of time and investment in personal equipment is more than enough to ask of any member. The Group's current annual operating budget is approximately $30,000, funded by Boulder County, the City of Boulder, and the University of Colorado Student Union as well as private, tax deductible contributions from the community and the sale of the book, Mountain Search and Rescue Techniques. Rocky Mountain Rescue Group uses the rocky mountain shuttle to help improve the response of the rescure efforts.
For Rescue Assistance, call Sheriff's Dispatch (303) 441-4444 (USA)
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PACIFIC LUMBER PLAN "TOSSED":
A state judge has "struck down" Pacific
Lumber's "state-approved 100 year logging plan" on grounds that the
CA
Forestry Dept "hasn't ensured that the plan would protect endangered
species and watersheds" says the S.F. Chronicle 5/20. The preliminary
decision in response to a lawsuit by EPIC, the Sierra Club and United
Steelworkers, could substantially affect logging on 211,000 acre of
company land in Northern California. The plan was part of a historic
deal "for public acquisition of Headwaters Forest, 7,500 acres of
environmentally sensitive old-growth redwoods" and was supposed to
"preserve habitat for the imperiled marbled murrelet and northern
spotted owl, prevent excessive logging and protect streams."
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CA REJECTS KLAMTH WATER ALLOCATIONS:
The California Resource's agency
criticized the Bush regime's plan for allocating water to the Klamath
River as "inadequate" to prevent problems like last fall's massive
fish
die-off of at least 33,000 salmon says the Contra Costa Times 5/21.
California maintains that the water allocated for coho and chinook
salmon and steelhead trout are little changed from last year, looks
only at information that supports last year's water releases and fails
to take into account USFWS studies of the fish kill. The state wants
the regime to "reevaluate the fishes' needs in new consultations with
state, federal and tribal agencies."
JUDGE HAS HEARD ENOUGH: A federal
judge has declined to hear oral
arguments in a "lawsuit challenging federal water allocations for
threatened coho salmon in the Klamath River" says SFGate.com, AP 5/20.
Instead, the judge is "expected to rule from written arguments" in
the
case which has pitted fishermen, conservationists, tribes and down-
river communities against agribusiness interests and the Bush regime.
The case against the federal water allocation plan has been bolstered
by "a government whistle blower, a scientist who says his team's water
recommendations were skewed by political pressure" from the regime.
UPBEAT FERRET UPDATE: An assessment
of endangered black-footed ferrets
reintroduced into South Dakota's Conta Basin concluded that they are
"doing well and continue to offer hope that the once nearly extinct
species can be restored" says the Casper Star-Tribune 5/20. Unlike
ferrets in Wyoming, the South Dakota ferrets were in good health and
"reproductively very fit," producing 245 litters and 740 kits. "South
Dakota is really the big hope right now because of lack of plague" said
the Forest Service.
BIRDS FOLLOWING ANCESTORS, THE DINOSAURS:
A new report by WorldWatch
Institute singles out humans "as the cause of what many scientists
believe is the biggest mass extinction of animals in 65 million years"
says National Geographic News 5/16. BirdLife International documents
that in the last two-hundred years, "over 100 bird species have
disappeared" and "another 1,200 - 12% of the planet's total - face
extinction this century." According to the report "human factors are
central to declining bird life," with habitat loss having the "most
serious impact" - between 50,000 and 170,000 sq. km. are deforested
each year, "putting 85% of the world's most threatened bird species at
risk."