NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, February 8, 2008

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INCIDENTS

Florissant Fossil Beds NM

Elk Poached Within Park

An elk was illegally shot and killed in the park during the early morning hours of Sunday, January 20th. The incident occurred about a mile south of the town of Florissant. Protection rangers are investigating in conjunction with state and county officers. They are looking for three men in their late 30s to early 40s and a teenage boy who were seen at the scene that morning. They were driving a dark red extended cab Ford F-350 with Colorado plates. The primary suspect has dark hair, a dark beard and thin wire-rimmed glasses. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call chief ranger Rick Wilson at 719-748-3253 or Operation Game Thief (1-877-COLO-OGT). A $500 reward from Operation Game Thief may be offered for information about this crime. [Keith Payne]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories (among others) can be read on InsideNPS:

Office of the Chief Information Officer - High resolution maps have been added to every park web page in response to visitor feedback.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6213" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6213

Cultural Resources - National Park Service historian Richard Sellars will retire on February 29th. Photo.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=1828" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=1828

Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by both the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added this week are a wilderness first responder course at Acadia NP, structural firefighter and structural fire driver/operator training courses at Glen Canyon NRA, GPS to GIS training courses at Manassas and in Anchorage, and annual LE refreshers sponsored by Badlands NP in South Dakota and by San Juan NHP in Puerto Rico.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=775" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=775

Events Calendar - Today's listing of upcoming NPS and NPS-related events across the nation. New on this week's calendar are the Kingsley Heritage Celebration at Timucuan this month and a resource stewardship conference for Intermountain Region.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=776" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=776

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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