NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, May 16, 2008

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INCIDENTS

Cape Hatteras NS

Update On “Operation Consent Decree”

High surf over-washed a number of beach areas and spits on the night of Tuesday, May 13th, leading to the loss of a dozen least tern nests and four American oystercatcher nests. Fortunately, the park's five known piping plover nests and nine other American oystercatcher nests were not affected. Least terns in the Hatteras Island colony were seen scraping again the next morning. The high surf and nine- to twelve-foot seas were caused by a slow-moving low pressure system with winds up to 40 mph. A number of fence posts marking beach closure areas were also lost, but are being replaced as quickly as possible. [Barbara Dougan, Incident Information Officer]

Colorado NM

Search Leads To Discovery Of Suicide Victim

On the afternoon of May 12th, a 27-year-old man from Grand Junction was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. His vehicle had been found abandoned on the east hill of Rim Rock Drive about a half mile south of the Serpents Trailhead the day before. Rangers and a dozen volunteers from the Mesa County SAR team found his body within a couple of hours about 200 yards from the vehicle in a steep ravine. The National Park Service is leading the investigation. [Phil Akers, Chief Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

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

Biological Resource Management Division - Friday is Endangered Species Day, a day in which we recognize threatened and endangered species. There are currently 398 federally listed species in NPS units.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6509" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6509

Glen Canyon NRA - The park has announced further expansion of the program to prevent zebra or quagga mussels from becoming established in Lake Powell.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6510" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=6510

Natural Resource Program Center - Jenness (Jen) Coffey will retire on June 2nd after 30 years with the National Park Service.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=1926" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=1926

Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by both the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added this week are a course at Blue Ridge on drug interdiction as part of the patrol function and driver instructor and LE control technique instructor training sessions at FLETC.

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. Today's additions include a symposium on the CCC in the Southwest that will be held this month at Grand Canyon and a national meeting of the CESU Network in Washington, D.C., in June.

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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Submission standards for the Morning Report can be found at the following web site:

HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363

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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