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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Thursday, April 23, 2015 INCIDENTS Zion NP Rangers Assist In Pursuit Through Park On the evening of April 21st, rangers assisted Kane County, Washington County and Utah Highway Patrol officers with a vehicle chase that started near Kanab, Utah, and went through the park. The pursued vehicle was stolen out of Kanab and rangers were told that there were drugs and weapons involved. The first set of spike strips were deployed at the park entrance, but the vehicle's driver maneuvered around them by traveling through the gate on the employee inbound lane. A second set of spike strips were deployed in Virgin, Utah, which resulted in two flat tires. The vehicle travelled approximately six more miles before being stopped by local officers. The operator was arrested. Zion rangers provide mutual aid to towns of Rockville, Springdale, and Virgin through an MOU on a regular basis. [Cindy Purcell, Chief 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): Flight 93 NM - Flight 93 National Memorial and its partners kicked off National Park Week and the Find Your Park Campaign over two days last week with the park's fourth annual “Plant a Tree” reforestation event. Intermountain Region - On March 19th, staff from Organ Pipe Cactus met with personnel from several agencies to discuss plants and animals listed or proposed to be listed as endangered or threatened species and are of special concern to land managers. Fort Scott NHS - An all-star cast that included some of the park's most talented volunteers put on a performance about the Lincoln assassination on the evening of Saturday, April 18th. Office of Communications - Record numbers of visitors to national parks in 2014 translated into $29.7 billion in economic activity that supported nearly 277,000 jobs across the country. 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). --- ### --- |