NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

INCIDENTS

Badlands NP

SAR Team Rescues Injured Danish Visitor

On the evening of Saturday, June 6th, the park's search and rescue team rescued a 23-year-old visitor from Denmark who'd fallen and sustained injuries to her left leg while hiking on the Notch Trail.

The woman was able to crawl a significant distance and descend to the base of a log and cable ladder, where SAR team members found her. Team members employed a rope system to lower the patient in a litter to waiting ambulance personnel. She was then taken to a hospital in Phillip, South Dakota.

This was the second rescue from the Notch Trail this year. In April, a visitor from Russia was also injured in a fall.

[Casey J. Osback, 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):

Joshua Tree NP - Joshua Tree National Park connected with 160 visitors on a full moon hike on Saturday, May 30th - the first of a new series of such hikes that will be offered by the park this summer.

Great Smoky Mountains NP - Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers were presented with 15 high-performance search and rescue jackets by donors to support field rangers in inclement weather.

Intermountain Region - Bighorn Canyon NRA has just completed its first year of targeted educational programming and outreach on the neighboring Crow Reservation.

Intermountain Region - Eric Brunnemann, a 20-year veteran of the NPS, has been named superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. He begins his new assignment on June 14th.

Alaska Region - Paul Clark has been selected as the region's new Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance program leader. Paul takes over from Lisa Holzapfel, who retired this past January.

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).

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