Terry Crooks has over forty years of experience in SAR, over thirty years of it in K9 SAR. Terry was on the first board of NSDA, participating in the development of testing standards, evaluator expectations and handler ethics. Experience has led Terry to working several multi-discipline K9's, as well as having been an evaluator for various K9 organizations.

He has worked on the teaching and writing of standards and the training, testing and deployments of his K9's all over the US and Canada. He has experienced success in all disciplines of K9 deployment. He has been fortunate to work with national disaster teams as well as several US, local and state agencies.

Terry is the local minister for the Libby Church of Christ and has been married to Thesia, his wife for fifty years. They have a son who is a minister in Belgrade, MT and a daughter who is an ER Specialist in Anchorage, AK.

Terry is an avid cyclist and hunter. Growing up on a farm/ranch around livestock, plus a lifetime of hunting, has provided a solid background in animal behavior, weather conditions and search tactics as a given way of life.

Zephrin started his search and rescue career in 2016 as a member of MARK-9 Search and Rescue based in Dallas, TX. Since that time he has become the Team Leader and Head Canine Trainer for MARK-9 and has certified multiple times in Area Search and Human Remains Detection. He currently handles two dogs for SAR, a Labrador Retriever and a German Shepherd.

Zephrin graduated university with a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice in 2007. He's spent nearly two decades working for a government software contractor with much of his professional career in project and people management.

In addition to his professional career, his SAR career includes creating and hosting a SAR podcast, serving as an Assistant Instructor H.R.D instructor at the F.A.C.T.S. facility in Texas, operating as an Area/Human Remains Detection evaluator for NSDA, and instructing at multiple seminars across the country.

Gail has been active in K-9 search and rescue since 2005, and continues to be deployed on missions across the West. Since she started in SAR, she has successfully trained, certified, and deployed four dogs in multiple disciplines as well as having served in leadership positions in SAR organizations across the country. She is a SAR K-9 evaluator in several disciplines for multiple organizations and has been a seminar instructor since 2014.

Gail completed her Masters in Wildlife Biology and worked as a Supervisory Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for nearly 20 years. There she designed and led large-scale and remote field research projects across the West, including Alaska. She also served as a federal aviation operations manager, where she was responsible for managing both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters being deployed in a variety of extreme situations.

She and her husband are lucky to have recently built their dream home in northern Idaho, where they otherwise keep busy with their rescued mustangs, bevy of chickens, and a bunch of very energetic tervurens.

Glen is the team lead for Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue K9 team. He has been involved in SAR for several decades, and since 2014, he has been training and deploying SAR K9’s. He is a SAR K-9 evaluator for multiple organizations.

Glen is a Wildlife Biologist and has his own consulting business. He has a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Utah State University and a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Penn State University. He works mainly with raptors during the nesting season, but also with Endangered, Threatened, Candidate and sensitive species in the Intermountain west.

One area of interest for Glen is ensuring the integrity of K9 SAR certifications. He believes every K9 handler should be proud and supportive of all working K9 teams. This is not an individual endeavor, it takes a team of people to train with, test with, and deploy with.

A major highlight of Glen’s K9 SAR career was being the recipient of the 2021 Glenn Thomson scholarship which was used to purchase his current SAR K9, a golden retriever named Moki. He has kept in contact with the benefactor of the grant over the years and have been highly motivated by her story. Her story and commitment to supporting K9 SAR has inspired him to train with more focus and work toward having the most reliable SAR K9 possible.