Moose Mutlow has trained and taught search and rescue internationally for more than 30 years. Moose has spent 20 years working with Agencies/Public training technical skills and the role of the Family Liaison Officer to Incident Command staff and Emergency Services. He works in and around Yosemite National Park.

Banner photo and photo above by NatureBridge.

Experience

Senior Projects Director at NatureBridge - USA

Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officer program of the National Park Service - USA

Outward Bound Instructor and Course Director - Australia, Wales, OBWest, North Carolina, Voyageur, Hurricane Island, Thompson Island.

Teacher, Education Director and Administrator - UK, Botswana, USA

Search and Rescue Technical Trainer - USA

Sierra Rescue Advisory Committee Member for Swiftwater Flood & Surface Water Rescue Field Guide - USA

Ski Patrol - USA

Fundraising and Development - USA

Residential Social Work - UK

Moose Mutlow on a boat in the Florida Everglades at the golden hour.

Photograph by Jeff at OutwardBound

Moose Mutlow sitting on a giant boulder next to a little girl giving a speech to a crowd at the opening of the National Environmental Science Center in Yosemite.

MOOSE MUTLOW SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CENTER, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. PHOTO CREDIT NATUREBRIDGE

Talks

Lines in the Sand: Presenter at National Association of Experiential Education

Presenter at National Outward Bound Trainings - panel and keynote

International Delegation Presenter - Yosemite National Park

Earth Day Key Note 2013 - Delaware North Corporation

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Awards

2015 - Outstanding Service to Yosemite Search and Rescue - NPS Search and Rescue

2012 - Citizen's Award for Exceptional Service - Department of the Interior

2009 - Abiding Dedication to Yosemite National Park - Yosemite Fund Award

2006 - Excellence in Service (2) - Yosemite Search and Rescue, National Park Service

Moose Mutlow wearing a Yosemite Search and Rescue uniform for water rescue (yellow helmet and black jumpsuit and safety vest). He's in Yosemite, pointing down river.

Swiftwater instructing for Yosemite National Park

Moose has nearly 4 decades of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. He has course directed 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, been a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert, managed a beach concession on the Mediterranean, slogged through Australian rain forests with middle school students, juggled as a street performer in too many cities to mention, has more than 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting, spent four months as the Interim Head for an elite ski academy, and returned to Outward Bound to instruct a canoe program for Veterans on the Gulf of Mexico.

Since 2002 Moose has been a member and senior trainer of Yosemite Search and Rescue, working as a technician and within Incident Command, at one of the busiest SAR operations in the world.

Moose currently works for NatureBridge in Yosemite National Park as the Senior Projects Director for planning, design and construction of the National Environmental Science Center.

Moose has been the Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officers for the National Park Service teaching trainings with staff from Yosemite, Arches, Smokey Mountains, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Joshua Tree, Sequoia Kings, Point Reyes, Lassen, Lake Mead, Death Valley, Zion, Delaware Water Gap, Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

Moose Mutlow wearing a firefighting uniform (yellow top, green pants, and a yellow helmet) shuttling firefighters across the Merced River during the Ferguson Fire (2018).

SHUTTLING FIREFIGHTERS ACROSS THE MERCED RIVER DURING THE FERGUSON FIRE (2018). PHOTO BY KARI GREER/USFS.

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Certifications

Wilderness First Responder

Rescue 3 International Agency Instructor - Rescue 3

Critical Incident Stress Management and Family Liaison Officer - NPS

Professional River Instructor Course - National Outdoor Leadership School

Swiftwater Recovery Specialist - Rescue 3

Rigging for Rescue (70 hour class) - Rigging for Rescue

FEMA Certs

IS-29.A; IS-42.A; IS-100.C; IS-200.C: IS-700.B;

IS-800.D

Basic Wildland Fire Orientation

Education

BSc. (Honors) Environmental Science
University of Plymouth, UK

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Biology and Games)
University of Bristol, UK

About Moose Mutlow