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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, October 19, 2007 =============================================================================================================== INCIDENTS Theodore Roosevelt NP Helicopter Crashes During Horse Roundup A helicopter crashed late yesterday morning while rounding up horses in the park. Superintendent Valerie Naylor reported that the two people aboard were believed to have escaped with only minor injuries. She identified them as the pilot, Ted McBride, who's with El Aero Service of Elko, Nevada, and park biologist Mike Oehler. The helicopter, which is used to herd the horses into corrals, appeared to hover over the corral, then the propeller hit the corral and broke off. Naylor told a reporter that she believed McBride and Oehler got out of the helicopter on their own after the crash. [Associated Press] OTHER NEWS The following stories (among others) can be read on either the InsideNPS web site (if you are within the National Park Service) or at the InsideNPS public ‘news digest' site (if you are outside of the NPS). The web sites are, respectively, HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/" http://inside.nps.gov/ and ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/). * Visitor and Resource Protection - The National Park Service's incident report submission standards have been revised to include a new contact name and number in the Washington Office. * National Mall - News story: Local support is growing to expand the National Mall, due in part to the demand to build more and more memorials on it. Supporters would like to see several adjacent areas added to the Mall. * Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by both the NPS and its partners across the nation. There are two new entries today - a course on producing NPS publications to be offered at Zion in January and two-week training sessions to be offered next summer at Grand Canyon's helicopter training academy. * Events Calendar - Today's listing of upcoming NPS and NPS-related events across the nation. New on this week's calendar are entries for the American Historical Association's annual meeting in January and the Association of Partners for Public Lands annual convention in February. * * * * * Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov, 570-686-3828). --- ### --- |