Est. 1997
Lynne recording Piper's alert
Barbara and Bailey search at historic gold mine era cemetery
Lynne recording Piper's alert
Our condolences go out to those who have lost their homes in the current Southern California fires. The Institute for Canine Forensics (ICF) continues to team with Alta Heritage Foundation (AHF) to assist homeowners who lost the urns containing the previously cremated remains of loved ones in the recent urban wildfires. Click on the link above to sign up for assistance in locating your loved one’s cremains. ICF canines only search for human remains, they are not trained to find animal remains.
​Come see us at SCA 2025 Burlingame, CA
​and at SAA 2025 Denver, CO.
Our Services
We help you locate burials of your pre-contact ancestors or historic cemeteries for the purpose of preservation and construction mitigation by using highly trained and certified dog and handler teams.
We help you mitigate damage to your sacred pre-contact burials or historic cemetery from proposed construction by identifying burials before any groundbreaking begins.
We can help you locate lost burials, burial grounds, cemeteries and their boundaries.
ICF is experienced in providing specially-trained dogs to survey Indian Residential Schools, searching for the burials of children who perished.
Photo of children in native dress and school uniform. Permission authorized by the National Anthropological Archives.
