[CPEO-MEF] Dogs' noses know no UXO (F.E. Warren Air Force Base, WY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unexploded AFB ordnance stymies dogs

By Shauna Stephenson
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
November 20, 2006

CHEYENNE - A test to see if highly-trained dogs could identify the scent 
of unexploded ordnance does not appear to have been successful.

The test, which was run during the month of September on the closed 
firing ranges at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, was conducted by RONCO 
Consulting Corporation. The idea was to see if the dogs could 
differentiate between unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other metallic material.

John Wright, chief of environmental restoration management at F.E. 
Warren, said the dogs did not identify the UXO.

"The results we had were not what we wanted," he said. "When they don't 
sit on one that is an explosive - that's pretty much a failure."

This was the first test of its kind in the United States. The hope was 
to reduce the amount of manual labor required to find and remove UXO by 
seeing if the dogs could identify it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2006/11/20/news/local_news/02local_11-20-06.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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Fax: 650/961-8918
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