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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Thursday, August 7, 2014 INCIDENTS Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP Rangers Found Missing Boys And Father Park rangers worked quickly on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 5th, to search the area along and around the Warner Route for a father and two boys from New Mexico who were reported missing by family members. The boys, ages 12 and 14, had gotten separated from their father during a short hike. He returned to the parking lot to tell his wife and daughter that the boys were missing and then went back into the canyon to look for them. When he did not promptly return, family members reported all three as missing and a hasty search was begun. After several hours of searching along the upper parts of the route and canyon rim, and with darkness approaching, two rangers carrying overnight gear and extra food and water hiked to the bottom of the route. The man and two boys were located around midnight at the Gunnison River. They were hungry and thirsty, but otherwise in good condition. They hiked out with rangers on Wednesday morning. [Sandra Snell-Dobert, Chief of Interpretation, Education, and Technology] 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): Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS - Over a three-day period at the end of July, more than 140 elementary and high school teachers and other educators gathered at the Home of FDR National Historic Site for Teaching the Hudson Valley's annual summer institute. Today's Almanac - Today's weather notes and remembrances from National Park Service history. The center of Hurricane Iselle is expected to pass very near or over the Big Island of Hawaii tonight and the smaller islands on Friday. Hurricane Julio will pass to the east of the islands this weekend.. [InsideNPS only] Ebey's Landing NHR - A 160-year-old, 27-foot-long canoe, restored in the park's Reuble Barn over the course of the last two years, was moved to the Swinomish Reservation on July 30th. Glen Canyon NRA - For the fourth consecutive year, the Native Conservation Corps program has played an integral role in connecting the next generation of Native Americans to their public lands. US Park Police - Joining in the celebration of 31 years of National Night Out service, the United States Park Police Field Offices participated in the 2014 National Night Out program on Tuesday, August 5th. Lowell NHP - On August 5th, protection rangers from Lowell National Historical Park participated in National Night Out at the St. Louis School in Lowell, Massachusetts. Bents Old Fort NHS - On Saturday, July 26, 13-year-old Aida Frey of Algonquin, Illinois, received her 167th Junior Ranger badge while visiting Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site in southeast Colorado. 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). --- ### --- |