NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

INCIDENTS

Fort Donelson NB

Suicide Victim Found In Park

A park staff member who was off duty and showing the park to out-of-town guests came upon a pickup truck parked at the Graves Battery area in Fort Donelson. The person behind the wheel did not respond to efforts to revive him, so the park employee contacted the Stewart County Sheriff's Office via 911. Protection rangers and county EMS personnel were dispatched to the scene. The person in the vehicle, a 38-year-old local Dover resident, had succumbed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Park law enforcement and the Stewart County coroner investigated the death. He'd been suffering from physical and mental health issues. [Michael Manning, Chief 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/):

Boston NHP - Progress continues to be made in the multi-million dollar overhaul of the World War II era Fletcher class destroyer USS Cassin Young, currently in dry dock in Boston Navy Yard. It will likely reopen to the public by this summer.

Office of Communications - The NPS has announced more than $2.5 million in grants to help preserve 700 acres of land at four of America's Civil War battlefields.

Southeast Region - On March 19th, an Atlas V rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center. The park, which is the center's neighbor, continues to serve as one of the public's favorite launch viewing locations.

Office of Communications - The tenth annual National Natural Landmarks photo contest is now underway. Winning photographs will be featured in the 2014 National Natural Landmarks calendar.

Office of Communications - Icelandic park rangers and park partners visiting U.S. national parks this month learned a great deal to apply at home and discovered more than a few similarities with their American counterparts.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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