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Kristine Lesperance
Kristine Lesperance
K9 Handler
Kris Lesperance, Ph.D. has been active in SAR since 1990. She started as a mantracker with Contra Costa County SAR and mission ready handler with California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA), working as a hasty team member in the (then) abduction capitol of the US. After responding to numerous searches throughout California, a move to Eastern Washington supplied Kris with working knowledge of searching in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. There she responded on over a hundred searches, from high country wilderness to human remains detection on many notable cases.
She became active with NASAR, taught Fundamentals of SAR, evaluated SARTech II certifications, and ran NASAR canine certifications in multiple locations domestically and internationally. She and her husband established their Spokane home as what many called a “SAR Camp,” running integrated multiple SAR discipline trainings and evaluations on their own property and the surrounding public lands.
Cindy Arnold
Cindy Arnold
K9 Handler
Cindy Arnold started training in Historical Human Remains Detection in 2017 and regularly participates in team trainings in addition to training independently. She has participated in multiple projects as a handler with Riley looking for ancestral human remains. Cindy has worked with multiple Pacific Northwest Native American Tribes. Cindy and Riley have also participated on many government funded jobs, including with USACE and ODOT. They have also participated in assisting searching for historical human remains at Fort Simcoe, WA, Northern State Hospital in Sedro Wooley and Seabeck Cemetery.
Riley, a black and white Border Collie, is certified as a Historical Human Remains Detection Dog. Cindy trains in obedience with Riley and is competing in Masters’ Agility Trials.
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