Other Interesting Web Sites

The purpose of this page is to provide our team members and visitors with a launching point to find potentially useful information. Some of this information is provided by search and rescue teams, government agencies, individuals, or commercial vendors. This is not just a generic "links" page, but rather an attempt to help you find useful information related to search and rescue and outdoor recreation; as such, we do not add links here by "reciprocal link request" by the owners of sites, especially for commercial sites. We select sites primarily based on recommendations from our team members. This page was most recently purged of many dead and obsolete links on 20 June 2018.

Cibola Search and Rescue makes no warranty of the quality of information you can get from these sites --- we have simply found them useful or interesting and want to help you get there. Inclusion of a link here does not constitute an endorsement by Cibola Search and Rescue.

• SAR Teams:
  Sites selected because they provide useful information for the benefit of other SAR teams or the general public. These sites provide information on wilderness survival, safety and medicine, research on SAR topics, search management, training methods, and similar documentation. Some sites also provide excellent reference materials and/or software. This list is provided as a service to our teammembers and the wider SAR community so that interesting source material may be collected in one place.
  • National Association for Search and Rescue
  • New Mexico State SAR
  • The New Mexico Search and Rescue Council
  • Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council
• Medical training
  • The State of New Mexico EMS board recognizes only Wilderness Medical Associates courses for wilderness medical training.
  • The UNM EMS Academy offers state-recognized wilderness medicine courses and certifications.
• Resources for self-study
  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency has an excellent series of self-study courses. The IS-195 course that used to be linked to from this page is no longer available there, but you might find some of these interesting:
    • FEMA Independent Study Program Course List.
      • Direct link to FEMA IS-100 (Introduction to Incident Command System) course.
      • Direct link to FEMA IS-200 (ICS for Single Resource and Initial Action Incidents)
      • Direct link to FEMA IS-700 (NIMS, An Introduction)
      • Direct link to FEMA IS-800 (National Response Plan (NRP), An Introduction)
      • Direct link to FEMA IS-242 (Effective Communications - Professional Development Series)
  • All of the study materials for the state search and rescue field certification exam are available in PDF format at the New Mexico Emergency Services Council website
• Other:
  • Mike Coltrin's Sandia Mountains Hiking Guide, the companion web site to his excellent book.
  • The New Mexico Mountain Club
  • The United States Geological Survey web site has plenty of information about its topographic maps and other products.

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