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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, October 26, 2011 INCIDENTS Lake Mead NRA Investigation Underway Into Homicide, Attempted Homicide The National Park Service and Las Vegas Metro Police are investigating a shooting of a man and woman at Six Mile Cove. The woman was found dead at the scene, the man was alive but suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to the hospital by helicopter. Park dispatch received a 911 call from a visitor early yesterday reporting that the two people had been shot. Rangers and Metro and Nevada Highway Patrol officers responded and found the pair face down in the sand when they arrived. The preliminary investigation indicates that this was a murder/attempted murder. The investigation is ongoing. Six Mile Cove is located just under three miles south of Cottonwood Cove on the Nevada side of Lake Mohave. [Andrew S. Muñoz, Public Affairs Specialist] Redwood NP&SP Major Tree Fall Closes Park Roadway INCLUDEPICTURE "http://classicinside.nps.gov/images/shim.gif" \* MERGEFORMATINET Four trees, including two very large old-growth coast redwoods over 8 feet in diameter, fell across Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park section of the park on Wednesday morning. Until the trees are removed, approximately eight miles of the parkway is closed to through motor vehicle traffic from just north of the Prairie Creek Visitor Center to the northern junction with Coastal Drive and the northern interchange of U.S. 101. Park maintenance crews estimate this section of the parkway will remain closed at least through the end of October and possibly considerably longer as they work to safely remove the trees and assess and repair road damage. All park trails remain open and Elk Prairie Campground, the Prairie Creek Visitor Center, and Davison Road (to Gold Bluffs Beach and Fern Canyon) are still accessible by vehicle. The only vehicles on the closed section of the parkway will be occasional park vehicles and heavy equipment. HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/redw/parknews/parkway-treefall.htm" http://www.nps.gov/redw/parknews/parkway-treefall.htm 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/): Olympic NP - On September 17th, the park began the process of removing two dams from the Elwha River, the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Last week, the new diversion channel at the Elwha Dam was finished and crews opened the coffer dam above it. Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS - The park, in partnership with the Greening Youth Foundation and REI, hosted an urban youth campout for 30 students last month as part of the “King for Kids” Junior Ranger program and in support of the “America's Great Outdoors” initiative. Photo. Northeast Region - A dozen Northeast Region superintendents recently participated in the Service's first ever "virtual graduation," linked via video teleconferencing with Director Jarvis in Washington and with all the regions across the United States. Photo. * * * * The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced with the support of the Office of the Assistant Director for Information Resources and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov). --- ### --- |