Saturday, February 03, 2007

There's a Series Here, but I'm too Lazy to Write It

Native American trackers to step up border role - Yahoo! News: "SELLS, Arizona (Reuters) - An elite group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the United States' borders.

Little known outside law enforcement circles, the Shadow Wolves have hunted drug and human traffickers on a lonely stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border southwest of Tucson since the 1970s.

In an age of unmanned aerial surveillance drones, video cameras and electronic sensors on the borders, the 14-member unit uses age-old 'sign cutting' techniques to follow foot, horse and vehicle trails for miles across the cactus-studded wastes of the Tohono O'odham nation for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

'These skills go back generations, but with all the high-technologies they are still producing fantastic results,' Alonzo Pena, the ICE special agent in Arizona, said Thursday."

4 comments:

JD Rhoades said...

That is so cool.

mybillcrider said...

Somebody's probably working on the novel already.

Anonymous said...

one of the most interesting books i ever read was called "tracker" an autobiography of some guy named brown i think, who details the art. very very, as jd said, cool.

mybillcrider said...

I should've known there was already a book.