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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, November 1, 2006 =============================================================================================================== INCIDENTS Lake Mead NRA Two Roads To Reopen On Saturday The park continues to recover from flash flooding caused by heavy rains on the weekend of October 14th. Willow Beach Access Road and Lower Portal Road will reopen on Saturday, November 4th. The former will open at 2 a.m. on Saturday as a courtesy to fisherman who like to access the area in the early morning hours. Lower Portal Road will be open to the river rafting concessioner and to canoe and kayaking permit holders from November 4th until November 26th, then will closed until January 30th for previously scheduled site improvements. (Roxanne Dey, Public Affairs Specialist] Pictured Rocks NL Apparent Suicide On the evening of Saturday, October 28th, the Michigan State Police received a report from two hikers who had discovered a body while hiking in the Trappers Lake backcountry area of the park. Rangers were notified and a joint investigation was begun. State troopers and rangers hiked into the remote site near Trappers Lake, where they found a make-shift camp set up approximately 100 yards off the trail. The body of D.L.G., 42, of Olivet, Michigan, was found near the camp, the victim of an apparent suicide. The death remains under investigation. (Larry Hach, Chief Ranger) OTHER NEWS Other news from today's edition of InsideNPS, the National Park Service's home page: News article on an acoustic engineer who's on a quest to restore natural quiet to parks. An update from the Forest Service on the four firefighter fatalities in California. DSC's Joe Helmkamp is retiring. There's going to be a TelNet broadcast tomorrow on the new federal recreation lands pass program. To link to InsideNPS, click on HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/" http://inside.nps.gov/ * * * * * Prepared by Visitor and Resource Protection, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA. --- ### --- |