Least Resistance Training Concepts

One of the tasks that we do a great deal of is to move horses. LRTC has been the logistic arm of the Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates in relocating hundreds of BLM, BIA, Tribal Government, Virginia Range and similar horses to projects and activities being undertaken by member groups of the Alliance. In the previous few years, LRTC and allies moved easily over 1,000 horses. As a result the volunteers have been increasingly asked to assist in evacuating horses and livestock during wide area wildfires and other emergencies.

The volunteers standardized their equipment and formed "Strike Team LRTC."

Having a small fleet of trailers that carry loading chute panels, staffed by experienced volunteers and supported by additional vehicles carrying specialized equipment makes LRTC's response team the most dynamically capable team in the region. The wear and tear on the team's equipment illustrates the types of conditions that the volunteers often operate in.

More recently the group has been training in technical large animal emergency rescue under SFC Michael Connell with the Nevada National Guard. Training was provided under the auspices of the Division of Emergency Management and the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

On the very day of initial training, SFC Connell and the group deployed some of the new equipment to safely corral some quarter horses that had escaped their enclosure. A week later the equipment was put to work to extricate a large Clydesdale gelding that had fallen off a rim trail into a canyon creek some 40+ feet below.

The LRTC volunteers are constantly revising and improving their equipment and evolving in their training and skills. While the group's primary focus will always be on wild horses and burros and their adopters, protecting our public lands and utilizing our skills and equipment when serious emergencies and disasters strike are very much components of our "service outreach."

For a more complete report on "Strike Team LRTC," please click here.

Your volunteer participation, membership dues and donations provide us with the resources needed to accomplish these various tasks. LRTC is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Please click the link below for more information on the ways you can help our wild horses and burros as well as our regional emergency services.