NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
INCIDENTS
Delaware Water Gap NRA
Fisherman Drowns In Park Pond
On February 15th, park dispatch received a call from a police department in New Jersey regarding a missing person. They reported that the man's wife had contacted them and reported that she'd last spoken to her husband on February 12th and that his vehicle had been found off Old Mine Road in the park by a New Jersey State Park officer. Rangers were dispatched to the scene, as was a state park police dog team. The dog was given a scent article from the missing man's vehicle and immediately began to track him, quickly leading the search team to a nearby pond. Fishing gear and a hole in the ice were seen about 20 yards from shore. Three members of the Delaware Water Gap dive team entered the water and found the man's body. NPS rangers, an ISB agent, New Jersey State Park Police officers, and representatives from the Warren County prosecutor's and coroner's offices were involved in the incident. Several rangers recognized the victim as a long-time park user and avid outdoorsman. [Eric Lisnik, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):
Golden Gate NRA - Golden Gate National Recreational Area showed some color and humor with its exhibit in the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade held last Saturday - a colorful, 60-foot-long, endangered San Francisco garter snake chasing an equally endangered California red-legged frog.
Lake Roosevelt NRA - On February 5th, the NPS accepted concurrent legislative jurisdiction from the State of Washington over lands and waters within the park, marking the conclusion of a two-and-a-half year journey.
Klondike Gold Rush NHP - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park celebrated Black History Month with special guest Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Little Rock Central High School under the protection of federal troops in 1957.
Little Rock Central High School NHS - On February 18th, the park inducted several new members into its Youth Leadership Academy at the home of Daisy L. Gatson Bates, state president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP during the desegregation crisis at Central High School in 1957.
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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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