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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Tuesday, April 29, 2014 INCIDENTS Grand Canyon NP Visitor Falls To Death At Mather Point Park dispatch received a report early yesterday afternoon that someone had fallen off the rim at Mather Point on the South Rim. The park helitack crew located the body about 400 feet below the rim. Recovery operations were underway at the time of the report. Mather Point was closed to the public and was to remain closed until further notice. [Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski, Public Affairs Officer] 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): Craters of the Moon NM&P - On the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, members of the 2014 Great Rift Expedition took a week-long hike across the rugged wilderness of the Great Rift lava fields, following the course of 1920 expedition undertaken by explorer Robert Limbert. Director's Office - Five people from the Senior Executive Service candidate development program will be on detail to the National Park Service in the Washington Office and regions over coming months. NPS Conservation Study Institute - Applications are now being accepted for the Superintendent Leadership Roundtable, a program in which NPS leaders convene as a community of practice. They are due by May 9th. Frederick Law Olmsted NHS - A series of new exhibits, entitled “Designing for the Future: The Olmsteds and the American Landscape,” opened at the park during National Park Week. Redwood N&SP - The park recently held a seminar on career options in federal resource management and other employment opportunities for a diverse group of 130 students from Humboldt State University. Park Facility Management Division - On March 13th, Director Jarvis presented the FY 2013 accessibility achievement awards for accomplishments in access, design, and other areas at a ceremony in the Washington Office. Death Valley NP - Death Valley recently hosted local musicians for a spring concert series, part of the park's “Arts in the Park” program, culminating in a musical round-about in the Furnace Creek Visitor Center auditorium. 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). --- ### --- |