- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Monday, April 27, 1998
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Monday, April 27, 1998
INCIDENTS
98-161 - Golden Gate NRA (CA) - Assist to Agency
On April 22nd, a man who had stopped at a 7-11 convenience store in Tamalpais
Valley saw someone heading north on State Route 1 in his 1992 white Ford
Mustang, which had been stolen earlier that day from his residence. He
immediately reported the sighting to the Marin County Sheriff's Office.
Ranger Norm Simons picked up the stolen vehicle report on the scanner of his
patrol car and positioned himself on the side of SR 1 in the vicinity of Muir
Beach. The vehicle passed by shortly thereafter and continued north toward
Stinson Beach. Simons reported the situation and began following the
Mustang, which was occupied by two people. Park dispatch alerted other
rangers and notified both the California Highway Patrol and Marin County
Sheriff's Office. When the operator of the Mustang spotted Simon's marked
patrol car behind him, he attempted a U-turn, which Simons blocked. The
vehicle continued north at a high rate of speed, disappeared from sight on
the winding road, then reappeared heading back south. It was being driven
recklessly on the narrow, two-lane highway, forcing northbound traffic off
the road. Simons made a U-turn and pursued the Mustang until its driver came
upon a road block set by a county deputy and turned off the highway onto a
dirt road leading to Slide Ranch, an environmental education center on park
land. The car came to a stop and the two occupants jumped out and fled on
foot down a steep trail toward a rocky beach. At about this time, additional
state and county officers and rangers Terry Swift, Alex Naar, and Marybeth
McFarland arrived at the ranch. Two NPS lifeguards who were on duty at
Stinson Beach - Xavier Agnew and Bruce Airey - had been monitoring the radio
traffic; they requested and received permission to launch the park's jet ski.
A search ensued with the assistance of a helicopter and two canine units.
Agnew soon arrived off-shore of the area on the park jet ski and spotted the
two men hiding at the base of a cliff. They were taken into custody without
incident. An unsuccessful search was conducted for a handgun that one of the
men lost when he fell while attempting to elude capture. On April 24th,
Simons returned to the area with a metal detector and found the weapon, a 9mm
semi-automatic handgun. The California Highway Patrol is coordinating the
investigation. It appears that the arrests will lead to the clearance of
other crimes. The two men told investigators that they would have used the
gun against pursuing officers if they hadn't lost it. [Richard Danielsen,
Operations Supervisor, GOGA, 4/24]
98-162 - Big South Fork NRRA (TN/KY) - Rescue
Around 7 a.m. on April 26th, rangers Randy Justice and Kristy Kozel received
phone calls from the county sheriff's department reporting that a hiker had
fallen over the cliff near the East Rim overlook. Rangers, county SAR and
EMS personnel, and the park's interagency rescue team all responded. They
located five people who had been camped out near the rim when one of their
number - D.F. - slipped and fell about 100 feet down the
embankment, including a 50-foot vertical fall. D.F. suffered several
broken ribs, a fractured arm, and internal injuries. He was carried out
using technical rescue methods, then transported by ground to park
headquarters, where he was picked up by a Lifestar helicopter and flown to
Knoxville. Alcohol was a factor in the incident. The rescue took about
three hours. It was facilitated by the proximity of the park's SAR cache,
which was only about a half mile from the spot where D.F. fell. [F.
Graham, CR, BISO, 4/27]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No entries.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
No entries.
MEMORANDA
No entries.
EXCHANGE
No entries.
MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS CALENDAR
Two calendars alternate in the Morning Report on Mondays - this one, which
contains meetings, seminars, conferences and events, and a second, which
contains workshops and training courses. If you know of a conference,
meeting, workshop or training session with Servicewide interest and
implications, please send the information along.
Entries are listed no earlier than FOUR months before the event, EXCEPT in
instances in which registration dates close much earlier. Asterisks (*)
indicate new entries; pound signs (#) indicate revisions to entries that have
appeared previously. Brevity in entries is appreciated.
5/3-6 Meeting: National Conference on Environmental Decision- Making
Location: Knoxville, TN
Details: ---
Contact: National Center for Environmental Decision-making
Research, University of Tennessee Conference Center
Phone/fax: 423-974-0280; ---
E-mail: conference@gateway.ce.utk.edu
Submitter: Sheila Lee, WASO
5/5-7 Meeting: Southern Arizona Research and Resource Management
Conference
Location: InnSuites Hotel, Tucson, AZ
Details: Over 50 papers will be presented in nine sessions;
topics include wildlife management, physical
sciences, interpretation, fire, vegetation, and
historical preservation. A draft list of papers and
authors is available from Lee Benson (see address
below) by entering the word Conference in the subject
line. $60 (registration by April 1st).
Contact: Kathy Hiett for registration, Lee Benson for
conference
Phone/fax: Hiett: 520-670-6896 ext 3, Benson: 602-640-5250 ext
236; ---
E-mail: Lee Benson at NP-SOAR, Kathy Hiett at NP-WACC
Submitter: Lee Benson, SOAR
5/9-16 Event: Seventh Annual National River Cleanup Week
Location: ---
Details: ---
Contact: America Outdoors
Phone/fax: 423-558-3595; ---
E-mail: Via web site: www.americaoutdoors.org
Submitter: Sheila Lee, WASO
5/11-23 Meeting: "Making a Place for Nature, Seeking Our Place in
Nature," Yellowstone National Park and Montana State
University 125th Anniversary Symposium
Location: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Details: A series of seven scientific conferences and
workshops pertaining to the park's place in global
and local ecosystems, information sharing, research
and related topics. Registration is $275 for all
conferences or $150 per individual conference, and
due by April 27th.
Contact: Carolyn Manley, Montana State University, and Marsha
Karle, Yellowstone NP
Phone/fax: Manley: 406-994-5145; 406-994-5122
Karle: 307-344-2015; 307-344-2014
E-mail: carolyn@peak.mrc.montana.edu, or Marsha Karle at NP-
YELL. Web pages: www.mrc.montana.edu, and
www.mrc.montana.edu/YNP-125/
Submitter: Marsha Karle, YELL
5/15-17 Meeting: Personal Wellness and Fitness Seminar
Location: Albright TC, Grand Canyon NP, AZ
Details: Seminar for individuals with interest in changing
their diet, health and lifestyle for the rest of
their lives. Participants will receive individual
fitness plans customized to their needs. This is NOT
a health and fitness coordinators' training class.
$65.
Contact: Marty McCaslin for seminar, Ann Johnson for lodging
Phone/fax: McCaslin: 520-638-7831, Johnson: 520-638-7891; ---
E-mail: Marty McCaslin at NP-GRCA
Submitter: SAR Coordinator, GRCA
5/18-22 Meeting: DOI 1998 Safety and Occupational Health Seminar
Location: BLM National Training Center, Phoenix, AZ
Details: ---
Contact: USGS Office of Safety Management
Phone/fax: 703-648-7556; ---
E-mail: Via Web site - http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-safety/con1.html
Submitter: Maureen Foster, WASO
6/6 Event: National Trails Day
Location: ---
Details: ---
Contact: American Hiking Society
Phone/fax: 301-565-6704; ---
E-mail: ---
Submitter: Sheila Lee, WASO
6/26-28* Event: 50th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt NP
Location: Theodore Roosevelt NP, ND
Details: The park is celebrating the addition of the North
Unit to the system in 1948. The formal ceremony will
be at 5 p.m. on June 27th and will be followed by a
buffalo barbecue. Park staff are inviting all former
THRO employees to join them for the celebration.
Contact: Noel Poe, superintendent, or Bruce Kaye, chief of
interpretation
Phone/fax: 701-623-4466; ---
E-mail: Noel Poe at NP-THRO, Bruce Kaye at NP-THRO
Submitter: Noel Poe
6/29-7/2 Meeting: 30th Annual Meeting, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage
Foundation
Location: Great Falls, MT
Details: ---
Contact: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
Phone/fax: 509-783-1207; ---
E-mail: ---
Submitter: Sheila Lee, WASO
7/2-6 Meeting: "Ecological Exchange Between Major Ecosystems,"
Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America
Location: Baltimore, MD
Details: ---
Contact: Fred Wagner
Phone/fax: 801-797-2555; ---
E-mail: ---
Submitter: Sheila Lee, WASO
Various Seminars: American History Summer Seminars
Location: The titles, dates and locations of relevant seminars
are as follows: "Lincoln," Gettysburg College, 7/5-
11; "The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery,"
Yale University, 7/6-17; "Passages to Freedom:
Abolition and the Underground Railroad," Amherst
College, 7/19-26; "Thomas Jefferson and the
Foundations of American Democracy," Monticello and
the University of Virginia, 7/19-25; "The Private and
Public George Washington," Brown University, 7/26-8/1
Details: As above
Contact: Sandra Weber and Laura Feller, WASO
Phone/fax: Weber: 202-565-1057, Feller: 202-343-9285; ---
E-mail: Sandy Weber at NP-WASO-ITC-MIB, Laura Feller at NP-WASO-NRHE
Submitter: Joyce Howe, STMA
8/13-16 Meeting: Pecos Conference
Location: Pecos NHP, NM
Details: The focus of this year's annual conference will be on
the archeological concepts of culture. Short papers
are also solicited on archeological breakthroughs,
updates, unique discoveries, challenges and concerns.
Abstracts of papers are due by June 1.
Contact: Judy Reed, Pecos NHP, PO Box 418, Pecos, NM 87552
Phone/fax: --- ; ---
E-mail: Judy Reed at NP-PECO
Submitter: Pecos NHP
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