{"id":11429,"date":"2025-12-21T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:36:57","slug":"public-lands-bill-to-improve-sar-in-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands &#8211; Bill to improve SAR in National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11430\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-093232.jpg 1103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMuch of Wyoming outside of Yellowstone and Grand Teton also struggles with emergency response time.<br \/>\nBy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/author\/katie-klingsporn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie Klingsporn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/barrasso-bill-aims-to-improve-rescue-response-in-national-parks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WyoFile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wyoming\u2019s U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is pushing legislation to upgrade emergency communications in national parks \u2014 a step he says would improve responses in far-flung areas of parks like Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill improves the speed and accuracy of emergency responders in locating and assisting callers in need of emergency assistance,\u201d Barrasso told members of the National Parks Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the bill. \u201cThese moments make a difference between visitors being able to receive quick care and continue their trip or facing more serious medical complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2 \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-2 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-aa607c7337-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The legislation directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a plan to upgrade National Park Service 911 call centers with next-generation 911 technology.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, these upgrades would enable them to receive text messages, images and videos in addition to phone calls, enhancing their ability to respond to emergencies or rescues in the parks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47774\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Litter-drop.jpg?resize=780%2C759&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A rescue litter is delivered to Jenny Lake Climbing Rangers. A new report compiled by ranger George Montopoli and his daughter Michelle Montopoli show trends in search and rescue incidents in Grand Teton National Park. Photo: Courtesy of Grand Teton National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each year, rangers and emergency services respond to a wide range of calls \u2014 from lost hikers to car accidents and grizzly maulings \u2014 in the Wyoming parks\u2019 combined 2.5 million acres.<\/p>\n<p>Outside park boundaries, the state\u2019s emergency service providers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/a-critical-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also face steep challenges<\/a>, namely achieving financial viability. Many patients, meantime, encounter a lack of uniformity and longer 911 response times in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/ems-agencies-communities-work-to-make-wyoming-safer-amid-serious-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state\u2019s so-called frontier areas.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improving the availability of ground ambulance services to respond to 911 calls is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/wyoming-hopes-to-bolster-health-care-workforce-services-access-with-federal-health-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major priority in Wyoming\u2019s recent application for federal Rural Health Transformation Project funds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buckrail.com\/barrasso-bill-aims-to-improve-rescue-response-in-national-parks\/\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of Wyoming outside of Yellowstone and Grand Teton also struggles with emergency response time. By\u00a0Katie Klingsporn,\u00a0WyoFile Wyoming\u2019s U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is pushing legislation to upgrade emergency communications in national parks \u2014 a step he says would improve responses in far-flung areas of parks like Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. \u201cThis bill improves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11433,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}