NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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INCIDENTS

Glacier NP

Bull Elk Poached In Park

Acting on a tip received from hunters outside the park, rangers and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) game wardens recently conducted and completed an investigation into the illegal shooting of a bull elk inside park boundaries in the Nyack area of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. Charges are pending. Rangers were contacted on the morning of November 12th by sportsmen who were legally hunting outside the park. The reporting party said that he and another hunter had been observing a bull elk from across Nyack Creek when they heard a gunshot. They saw the bull recoil, then take a few steps and collapse on the boundary trail inside the park. The two hunters walked to the location where they believed the shot originated from and encountered a 16-year-old male within sight of the dead elk. Rangers contacted the boy later that morning and confiscated the elk. A joint investigation was conducted by park rangers and FWP wardens wherein the elk was transferred to FWP and the meat was donated to the Flathead food bank. [Amy Vanderbilt, Public Affairs Officer]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. The internal, NPS-only version of InsideNPS can be found at: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index . The public version, called NPS Digest, can be found at: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/

Servicewide - A newly issued NPS handbook tells the sweeping story of the American Revolution and puts in context the events and people from more than thirty parks in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and National Capital Regions.

Denali NP - The number of climbers allowed each year on North America's tallest mountain has been capped at 1,500 by the National Park Service. But everyone seems to agree the ceiling is, at least for now, more symbolic than substantive.

Fee Management Program - On Sunday November 23rd, Shawn McCaslin, 48, the husband of WASO fee program analyst Lisa Bourne, passed away due to the effects of a stroke.

San Juan NHS - Long term San Juan NHS administrative officer Magda "Maggie" Gonzalez is retiring after 31 years.

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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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