NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
INCIDENTS
Grand Canyon NP
Foreign Visitor Dies On North Kaibab Trail
A park volunteer reported finding an unconscious hiker on the North Kaibab Trail about a half mile below the trailhead early on the afternoon of Friday, August 9th.
The volunteer began CPR, which was continued by rangers when they arrived on scene. An AED was also employed, but without success.
The man was identified as B.H.P., 63, of Precy-Sur-Oise, France. He was in a group of five people who had hiked to Eye of the Needle, which is about two miles below the rim. Three of the others in the group continued on past Eye of the Needle, but B.H.P. and his wife decided to return to the trailhead after breaking for lunch.
The temperature along the rim was approximately 73 degrees and the inner canyon temperature was approximately 83 degrees at the time.
An investigation into the incident is being conducted and an autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death.
[Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski, Public Affairs Specialist]
Grand Teton NP
Injured Visitor Rescued From Blacktail Butte
A slight misstep on a rocky trail up Blacktail Butte triggered the ground-based rescue of an injured hiker on the evening of Saturday, August 10th.
A 53-year-old New York woman seriously injured her ankle on a steep section of the trail just before 6 p.m. while hiking near the butte's summit with a companion.
A park ranger responding to a 911 call reporting the accident drove from the Jenny Lake ranger station, some 15 miles away, and hiked up the Blacktail Butte trail to meet the woman, assess her injury, and make arrangements for a ground-based rescue via wheeled litter. Employees from the park's vegetation management crew, staff from Teton Interagency Fire, and additional rangers from the Gros Ventre subdistrict helped transport the woman via wheeled litter.
Due to the steepness and loose rocky surface of the trail, it required seven people to navigate the wheeled litter over a distance of more than a mile and a decline of about one thousand vertical feet from a point near Blacktail Butte's summit, elevation 7,688 feet, to a waiting park ambulance at 6,600 feet on the southern end of Mormon Row Road.
[Jackie Skaggs, Public Affairs Officer]
Lake Mead NRA
Body Recovered From Lake Mohave
A man's body was recovered last Sunday from a spot on Lake Mohave where a North Las Vegas man disappeared while swimming the previous weekend.
A park visitor called dispatch at 6 a.m. and reported that he'd discovered the body floating on the lake near Cottonwood Cove.
D.S., 23, disappeared about a mile north of the cove after going for a swim on August 4th.
The National Park Service, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Search and Rescue and Nevada Department of Wildlife conducted several unsuccessful surface and underwater searches for the missing man at that time.
[Christie Vanover, Public Affairs Officer]
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/):
Tumacacori NHP - Earlier this year, Tumacacori partnered with the University of Arizona and Desert Archaeology, Inc., to conduct an archaeological field school in the park's Guevavi Unit. Results of the field school far exceeded expectations, with the discovery of a prehistoric pit-house village, several roasting pits, and a Spanish period adobe structure.
Office of Communications - Founders' Day, the 97th birthday of the National Park Service, is on August 25th, and provides an opportunity to celebrate the great work that employees are doing in parks and programs across the country. Information is provided on how you can get involved.
Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services - Nominations are now being sought for the 20th annual Harry Yount awards. They are to be submitted directly to the NPS Awards Nomination Portal no later than August 31st.
Yosemite NP - Yosemite National Park has selected Kevin Killian as the park's new chief ranger. He has served in that position in an acting capacity since January.
Southeast Region - David Horne, currently the branch chief for law enforcement and ranger activities for Intermountain Region, will arrive in Atlanta in September to serve as the acting chief ranger for the Southeast Region.
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The Morning Report is 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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