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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Monday, March 24, 2014 INCIDENTS Arches NP Visitor Sustains Serious Injuries In Hundred-Foot Fall On March 12th, a 22-year-old man who had scrambled to the top of a rock fin near the park's primitive loop was standing on a rock that crumbled under him, causing him to free fall about 100 feet to the dry wash below and inflicting critical, life-threatening injuries. Two visiting paramedics rendered care and were able to communicate using the campground host's radio, who was on a hike and responded to the scene. A team of maintenance, road crew, fee, reservation and resource personnel, some of them in the vicinity, were lead on a rescue operation by visitor and resource protection staff. The injured man was packaged and carried out a quarter mile on a litter to a waiting helicopter and then flown to a hospital. The rapid response contributed to the saving of the man's life. [Kevin Moore, Supervisory Park Ranger] OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers): Olympic NP - The main channel of the East Fork Quinault River has continued to move across the Enchanted Valley floodplain this winter, further eroding the river bank and undermining and endangering the 1930s-era Enchanted Valley Chalet. Grand Teton NP - Twenty-four diversity students from universities across the country attended the 2014 NPS Academy at Grand Teton earlier this month for a weeklong NPS orientation filled with workshops, field trips, and recreational activities. Centennial Office - The NPS has announced the theme - Find Your Park - for the 2016 centennial's broad public engagement campaign to reintroduce the national parks and programs to a new generation of Americans, inviting them to visit and get involved. Hagerman Fossil Beds NM - An exhibit on the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II has opened at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument and will run through June 28th. Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the National Park Service. This report covers activities in Congress for the week ending March 21st. To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites: NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/ The Morning Report is 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). --- ### --- |