NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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INCIDENTS

Redwood N&SP

Elk Poaching Investigation Underway

The parks received a report of a poached Roosevelt elk near Enderts Beach Road in the Crescent Beach area on the morning of January 14th. Both state and NPS rangers responded and discovered that the female elk had been shot and gutted at the scene, probably between the early evening of January 13th and the early morning hours of the 14th. A reward for information leading to the arrest of the poacher or poachers has been authorized by the California Department of Fish and Game. [Nancy Wizner, Chief Ranger]

Golden Gate NRA

Taser Used To Resolve Confrontation With Threatening Man

On the morning of Saturday, January 10th, ranger John Goodwin contacted J.B. about camping illegally on Ocean Beach. J.B. had been contacted by rangers the previous day for the same offense. During the first contact, J.B. had been belligerent and uncooperative and had made idle threats that he would shoot the rangers. As Goodwin was conducting a wants and warrants check on J.B., he saw him reach toward his waistband, where weapons are often secreted. Goodwin ordered J.B. to stop, but he declined to do so. When J.B. tensed up as if to fight, Goodwin drew his taser, again ordered J.B. to remove his hands from his waistband, and told him he would be tased if he failed to comply. J.B. refused to do so, shouted racial slurs at Goodwin, and continued to ignore commands from Goodwin. It took two taser jolts and assistance from backup to get J.B. handcuffed. Medics took him to a hospital to have the barbs removed. He was then arrested on a San Francisco warrant and will be charged for state violations. [Kim Coast, Operations Supervisor]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Department of the Interior - Dan Wenk, acting director of the National Park Service, joined hundreds of others in welcoming Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to the Main Interior Building in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7290" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7290

Pacific West Region - Sarah L. Craighead has been appointed superintendent of Death Valley National Park. She will replace JT Reynolds, who retired on January 3rd.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2223" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2223

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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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