NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, December 4, 2009

NOTICE

There was no issue yesterday because a system failure in the Washington Office knocked out both internal communications and the internet for about 30 hours.

INCIDENTS

Shenandoah National Park

Rangers Arrest Man Following Domestic Assault

On October 29th, rangers responded to a report of a domestic assault at one of the Lewis Mountain cabins and found a woman who had been battered. She was transported to the hospital by a local rescue squad. She reported that her assailant might be suicidal and had knives in his possession. He was still in the cabin and refused to acknowledge or obey commands to exit the building. Numerous attempts were made to talk him into coming out over an extended period of time, and he finally complied around first light and was taken into custody without incident. The man was later found guilty of assault and disorderly conduct. [Lora Peppers, Central District Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

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

Great Smoky Mountains NP - The mother of a boy whose life was saved by rangers in a 1974 rescue returned to the park again this year to present the park with a holiday poinsettia - the 35th year in a row that she's done so. This time, her son, now a retired DEA agent, came with her.

Intermountain Region - The deadline for the 2010 Park NAGPRA internship program is fast approaching. Parks and offices servicewide must submit project proposals by December 16th.

Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center - A new social networking site has been established for wilderness professionals, managers, and educators. Information is provided on how to access the network.

Northeast Region - Cassius Cash has been selected as the new superintendent of Boston National Historical Park and Boston African American National Historic Site. Photo.

Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added to this week's listing are six new TEL station training classes - five in December and one in January.

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

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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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