NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Monday, November 30, 2009

INCIDENTS

Zion NP

Woman Falls To Death From Angel's Landing Trail

T.G., 50, of Pocatello, Idaho, and St. George, Utah, fell about a thousand feet to her death on the north side of Angel's Landing on the afternoon of November 27th. T.G. was hiking the popular Angel's Landing trail at the time. The call came in via St. George PD dispatch and rangers were immediately dispatched to Angel's Landing. A ground search and rescue team was mobilized and sent to the location to search for the victim. The Angel's Landing trail was closed for a short time during investigation and recovery operations. T.G.'s body was located and recovered by 6:30 p.m. The incident is under investigation by the Washington County Sheriff's Office and Zion National Park; preliminary information suggests that this was an accidental death. [Kevin Killian, Canyon District Ranger]

Grand Canyon NP

Man Falls To Death From South Rim

Rangers recovered the body of a man from a spot 200 feet below the South Rim on the afternoon of November 28th. Around 12:30 p.m., park dispatch began receiving calls reporting a man over the edge in the area between Mather Point and Pipe Creek Vista, about two miles east of South Rim Village. Rangers responded by helicopter and soon found his body. They rappelled down to the spot and prepared the body for helicopter extrication. The man had been visiting the park with his son, daughter-in-law and other extended family. No further details are currently available. [Maureen Oltrogge, Public Affairs Officer]

OTHER NEWS

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

Office of Public Affairs - The National Park Service has created a web page which provides information to the public on holiday events occurring in the parks over the coming month. A link is provided.

Natural Resource Program Center - The fall 2009 edition of the Earth, Wind & Water newsletter is now available on the Natural Resource Program Center website.

Glen Canyon NRA - A new partnership has been formed to combat the spread of Russian olive and other invasive weeds on private and public lands in the Escalante River watershed in southern Utah.

Yosemite NP - Shelton Johnson, interpretive park ranger at Yosemite National Park, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Freeman Tilden Award for excellence in interpretation. Photo.

Property Management Program - Ernestine Armstrong will retire from the NPS on December 31st with a total of 42 years, two months and two days of federal service.

To see these and other stories posted on InsideNPS (or NPS Digest, its public version), click on one or the other of the following links (please note that not all stories in the former appear in the latter): NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index ; non-NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/

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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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