NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
INCIDENTS
Yellowstone NP
Visitor's Body Found Along Yellowstone Ski Trail
The body of a Montana man was discovered this past weekend along a park ski trail.
Snowshoers called 911 around noon on Saturday after spotting what they thought was a frozen human body in the snow along a groomed ski trail in the northern part of the park.
Rangers responded to the Frog Rock Trailhead, which is south of the Grand Loop Road, eight-and-a-half miles east of Mammoth Hot Springs.
They discovered the body of 52-year-old M.M. from Belgrade, Montana, not far from the ski trail along the Blacktail Plateau Drive.
While initial indications are that the man succumbed to hypothermia, the incident remains under investigation.
[Al Nash, Public Affairs Officer]
Great Basin NP
Suicide Victim Found In Park
On Thursday, January 22nd, maintenance employees reported a suspicious vehicle parked near a closed road. A follow-up by rangers revealed that the car was registered to a Utah resident who had been reported as missing and was described as despondent.
On Friday morning, rangers, assisted by a Forest Service K-9 unit, located a man's body in Grey Cliffs Campground. Identification is pending autopsy results.
The White Pine County Sheriff's Office has the lead responsibility for the continuing investigation.
[T. Henderson, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Death Valley NP - It was 87 degrees at the Furnace Creek weather station last Friday - setting a record for the highest temperature for that date and tying the record for the highest previous temperature for the month of January, set in 1962.
Fire and Aviation Management - The National Park Service Branch of Wildland Fire has released a five-year strategic plan that will guide the program until 2019. A link is provided to the new plan.
Business Services - The Business Services' Directorate has announced the 2014 recipients of the Director's Awards for Excellence in Administration and Business Management.
Midwest Region - Joy G. Kinard, currently the central district manager for National Capital Parks-East, has been selected as superintendent of Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
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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