[CPEO-MEF] Dogs' UXO-sniffing tested at F.E. Warren AFB (WY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Not your average dog

By Shauna Stephenson
Wyoming News
September 28, 2006

CHEYENNE - Out on the barren prairie north of the main drag of F.E. 
Warren Air Force Base, Dessel goes to work.

The black Belgian malinois' handler, Paul Brown, walks her through a 
series of orange flags. He points with a trekking pole as she walks, 
nose to ground, looking for a scent.

Dessel and Brown are part of a test being conducted at F.E. Warren AFB 
on whether highly trained dogs can pick up the scent of unexploded 
ordinance that dots the base's entire North Range. This is the first 
test of its kind in the United States.

The trick to be able to differentiate between all other scents and those 
of explosives that may sit two to four feet in the ground

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2006/09/28/top_story/01local_09-28-06.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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