NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, January 7, 2011

INCIDENTS

Canyon de Chelly NM

Park Visitor Center Vandalized

The park's visitor center was vandalized sometime during the night of Monday, January 3rd. Park staff arriving for work the next morning found that the front door windows and side windows had been smashed with rocks. It appeared, however, that the building was not entered. The breaking of the windows did not trigger the alarm system, which had been armed on Monday evening. Footprints were found leading to and away from the building, and rangers followed them to a residence located between a quarter and half mile from the visitor center. Two suspects were interviewed and one admitted to the vandalism. The park is working on the case with the assistant U.S. attorney in Flagstaff, the FBI in Gallup, and the Navajo Police criminal investigators' office. Ranger Fernando Jones is the lead investigator. [Chief Ranger's Office]

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/):

Museum Management Program - Explore the remarkable Hampton Mansion, home for 300 years to seven generations of the Ridgely family and their large and diverse labor force, at a newly-created online virtual museum exhibit.

Hampton NHS - Michael J. (Mike) Lynch, 58, passed away unexpectedly on January 3rd in Towson, Maryland. He served as the gardener for Hampton and Fort McHenry for over twelve years. Photo.

Lincoln Boyhood NM - Longtime Lincoln Boyhood employee Don Adams passed away on January 3rd. Photo.

Upcoming Training and Conference Calendar - A compilation of upcoming training courses and conferences across the nation. Added to this week's calendar are the following courses - a TEL station broadcast on retirement planning for CSRS employees next week, a basic technical rescue training course in the west at Canyonlands and another in the east at Little River Canyon, and a new, five-week-long land management investigator training course at FLETC.

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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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