President- Jeff Hiebert - Started working in law enforcement in 1989 where he was first introduced to SAR
dogs.
- First SAR dog Frisco was certified in wilderness area
search, avalanche, water search and HRD through Front Range Rescue Dogs..
- Currenlty is working his second and third Ranger Service Dogs, Dax and Trinity who are a blend of a police
service k-9 and a SAR dog. His Ranger Service Dogs are certified in urban trailing, HRD and water search. His specialty is
HRD, urban and wilderness trailing.
- Jeff is currenlty
working on certifieng his 8th search dog.
- Jeff
has trained in all disciplines and received certifications (and evaluated) in wilderness airscent, water, avalanche, article,
urban trailing, and wilderness trailing.
- Former President
and Vice-president of Front Range Rescue Dogs.
- Education
- BA- Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology- University of Colorado. Minor- Animal Behavior (Ethology.)
Vice President- Doug Teeft - Working with k-9’s for approximate 35 years. Doug grew up with working dogs, as his father was a Dog Master
and Trainer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Doug started
the first Canadian branch of American Rescue Dog Association in Nova Scotia (ARDA-NS).
- Doug currently owns and operates Teeft K-9 Center. They provide dog training and k-9 equipment.
- Doug currently has three German Shepherds at various stages of training in specialty
work including search and rescue, disaster, evidence recovery, and gas line leaks. Yes, gas line leaks!!
- Doug has worked with many agencies including; US Accellerant Dog Assoc.,California
Narcotics Assoc., US Border Patrol, US Beagle Brigade (border food inspection), Auburn University, United States Department
of Defense K-9 section, FBI Homicide division to name a few.
- Doug
coordinates searches for eastern Canada and provides detection services for their ports.
 Treasurer- Ann Wichmann (co-founder)
- Ann has been training service dogs since 1975, when she became a Park Ranger in
Boulder Colorado.
- Started a Park Ranger Service Dog Program
and worked with a succession of five Ranger Service Dogs.
- Co-founder of Front Range Rescue Dogs, Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado and Search and Rescue Dogs of the
United States. All of these were efforts to help teams and handlers achieve high performance goals and do our very best for
the victims.
- Ann began working on disaster standards
in 1986, and in 1991, was appointed to the FEMA Canine Subcommittee. She worked on developing the standards
and curriculum for the national disaster system until 2004.
- She has been a FEMA
chief evaluator, mentor and instructor, and is a retired evaluator for Front Range Rescue Dogs. Ann currently is an
evaluator for NSDA and SARDUS.
- Ann has been involved in
the International Rescue Dog Symposiums since 1991, and has instructed in Berlin, Stockholm, Boulder, Prague,
and Seoul.
- Ann has certified eleven dogs to the FEMA standards
and sixteen dogs to Front Range Rescue Dog, NSDA or SARDUS standards, including trailing, area, HRD, water, and avalanche.
She continues to train on a daily basis, and offers group seminars at her farm in western Oregon.
 Director At Large- Teresa MacPherson As a member of Virginia Task Force One and Virginia Search & Rescue
Dog Association, Teresa has responded to numerous missions on a local, State, Federal and International level. These
deployments include the OKC bombing of the Murrah building, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike, the Bam, Iran earthquake,
the school collapse in Haiti, the Haiti earthquake, the Japan earthquake/tsunami, SuperStorm Sandy, the Oso mudslide, the
Nepal earthquakes, Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands for Hurricanes Irma/Maria as well as responses to call-outs by the FBI, CIA,
NCIS and local law enforcement agencies. Teresa has certified multiple
canines in wilderness, water, Human Remains and disaster search.
In addition to responding to
search missions, Teresa instructs and evaluates on a local, State, Federal and International level. She has instructed and
evaluated across the United States and has traveled to Turkey, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Australia to assist in the education
and evaluation of their search resources. Teresa chaired the FEMA Canine Sub-Group for 9 years, which oversees the federal Urban Search & Rescue
canine program. She
is also a member of the NIMs SAR Working Group as well as several other canine organizations, giving her a broad knowledge
base of canine search. She resides in Catlett, VA with her husband,
Jack and her Labradors - Keys, Bayou and Port.  John Beck - Worked with search and rescue dogs since 1997.
- He
is the fprmer President of NASDN and has been involved with NASDN since 1996.
- John is responsible for arranging training and evaluations across the country for NASDN.
- John currently works a dog in human remains detection in Nebraska.
- John also evaluates police k-9's when not working SAR dogs.
Director At Large Dr. Janet Brennan, DVM (co-founder) - Dr. Brennan has been a dog
handler for over 30 years; a search and rescue dog trainer, instructor and handler with the California Rescue Dog Association
(CARDA) and the Monterey Bay Search Dogs (MBSD). She is a consultant to police departments in the training, evaluation, conditioning
and use of police service dogs.
- Dr. Janet
M. Brennan is the director of the Animal Hospital of Soquel, Santa Cruz, Ca. since 1971.
 Director At Large-
L. Bruce Bowler (co-founder) - Founder SEADOGS (Alaska) K-9 Search and Rescue Team; Team Manager since 1977.
- Bruce was Incident Commander on many of the over
650 search and rescue missions logged by SEADOGS from Barrow to Dutch Harbor.
- Assisted in the formation of
the SAR Dog network in Alaska.
- Trained in Wilderness, Avalanche, Disaster (Collapsed structure)
Water and cadaver search.
- Bruce began teaching SAR management with NPS at one of the first
search management courses in the early 80's.
- Guest instructor at the Alaska Public Safety Academy,
NASAR conferences and the National Fire Academy.
- Led one of 2 American SAR Teams to Soviet Armenia
in 1988 and to the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 as SAR representative of Alaska's Governor.
- Appointed
to the FEMA National Standards Task Force which created the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue program; and was a member of the
NASAR and ASTM national SAR Dog standards working group.
- Received the Presidential Points of Light Award;
Lt. Governor's Volunteer Award; DPS Directors Award; Alaska Peace Officers Association Member of the Year, Juneau's Citizen
of the Year, and the Alaska State Troopers first "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2004.
- Bruce
is a certified Critical Incident Stress Management Instructor and debriefer, NASAR ISAR and FUNSAR instructor, and co-founder
of the SE Alaska CISM team. His wife Judy coordinates the SE Alaska CISM Team.
- Elected to SEADOGS President Emeritus 2019.
Director At Large-
George Epp - Epp
started his career as a jail deputy with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office in 1972, He worked up through the ranks
of the Sheriff’s Office, eventually serving as the head of each major division.
- Epp was elected sheriff of Boulder
County in 1990, and subsequently re-elected in 1994 and 1998. Boulder County is home to one of the
most active search and rescue communities in the nation. During his career Epp was involved in thousands
of search and rescue operations.
- Epp left the Boulder Sheriff’s Office in 2003 and accepted a position as Executive
Director of County Sheriffs of Colorado.
- In 2006 he was asked by former Colorado Governor Bill Owens to become
the Director of the Colorado Division of Emergency Management. He retired from that position in 2007.
- Epp
has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Colorado.
- Epp retired from the Advisory Council and Board of Directors
of the National Criminal Justice Association.
- He has been the chairman of Colorado’s Drug Control and System Improvement Board, a member of
Colorado Governor’s Columbine Review Commission, a member of the National Task Force on Public Safety Radio Interoperability,
and the Colorado Legislature’s Task Force on the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System.
- He was a
member of the board of directors of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless for 16 years and served three years as the president
of that board. He is also a past president of County Sheriffs of Colorado and was for many years the chairman
of the County Sheriffs of Colorado Legislative Committee.
- Epp served for six years as a member of Colorado’s Juvenile
Parole Board, including two years as chairman.
- In his retirement, he enjoys woodturning, bicycling, and hiking
with his dog Dexter.
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