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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, April 8, 2011 INCIDENTS Glen Canyon NRA Man Sentenced For Vandalism To Important Petroglyph On April 4th, T.G. was sentenced in federal court to 60 months supervised probation, $10,000 restitution, and 100 hours of community service for damaging petroglyphs on the canyon walls along the Colorado River. T.G., 29, of Carolina Beach, North Carolina, pleaded guilty last December to a charge of damaging an archeological resource, a Class E felony. T.G. was on a guided fishing trip on the Colorado River last June. When the group stopped at a beach below Glen Canyon Dam, T.G. hiked up a short distance to a famous petroglyph known as the “Descending Sheep Panel” and scratched “TRENT” into the petroglyph panel with a rock. His actions were discovered by rangers shortly after the group departed. They confronted him when the group disembarked at Lee's Ferry. T.G. immediately admitted his actions to the rangers, and upon learning the age and significance of the petroglyph panel, expressed remorse for his actions. He later agreed to be interviewed for an article which appeared in the Arizona Daily Sun in an effort to deter others from similar acts. At his sentencing, T.G. told the court that he was profoundly sorry for the damage that he had caused to the panel, which has great significance to Native Americans in Northern Arizona, and that he was sorry for the shame that he had brought upon himself and his family. The Descending Sheep Panel contains elements of rock art interpreted to represent three separate temporal and cultural periods dating in age from about 1,000 years ago to somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 years ago. [Office of the United States Attorney, District of Arizona] 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/): San Antonio Missions NHP - Twenty national parks from throughout the West joined the Western National Parks Association at the National Parks Pavilion at the Tucson Festival of Books in mid-March. The annual festival, held to support area literacy programs, is one of the largest book festivals in the country. Denver Service Center - The NPS and Clemson University are collaborating on development of a web-based tool to foster better collaboration among federal, state, and local land managers and universities. Natural Resource Program Center - The Public Use Statistics Office has released its statistical abstract for 2010, which details actual National Park System visitation in 2010 and forecasts for 2011 and 2012. Climate Change Response Program - The March/April Climate Change Newsletter is now posted to InsideNPS. Training and Conference Calendar - Today's updated calendar. No new listings. * * * * Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of Communications and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov). --- ### --- |