NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, December 2, 2010

INCIDENTS

Mount Rainier NP

Injured Skier Rescued From Tatoosh Range

A 51-year-old man fell while skiing in the Tatoosh Range and broke a tibia on the afternoon of November 21st. Friends stabilized the injury, the skied out and notified rangers. Park rangers Ken Worstell, Stefan Lofgren, Paul Weltzer and Emily Frost responded along with four non-NPS skiers. The man was packaged and skied out in a toboggan to the Steven's Canyon Road, where he was transferred to an NPS ambulance. He was then transferred to a county fire district ambulance and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup. Margaret Anderson was incident commander. [Uwe Nehring, Supervisory Park Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):

Alaska Region - Today - Thursday, December 2nd - is the 30th anniversary of the Alaska Lands Act, more formally known as The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, or ANILCA.

Grand Canyon NP - Grand Canyon National Park staff recently hosted a focus group on accessibility and universal design in wayside exhibits. Photo.

National Partnership Office - The National Park Foundation has announced that applications are now being accepted for the 2011 transportation scholar program. The deadline is January 10th.

Office of Communications - Sandy Weber was presented with the National Park Service's Sequoia Award during the agency meeting at the National Association of Interpretation Conference on November 16th. Photo.

Learning and Development Division - The WASO Learning and Development Office welcomes Katrina L. Roberts as its newest leadership development training manager. Photo.

Learning and Development Division - Judy Geniac has accepted the position of Fundamentals training manager at the Grand Canyon, while Glen Mazur will serve as the new deputy chief of the Learning and Development Office in Washington. Photo.

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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