NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

INCIDENTS

Yosemite NP

Missing Hiker Found After Extended Search

Missing visitor M.“M.”D., the subject of a multi-day search, was found late yesterday morning in a boulder field east of Lower Yosemite Fall.

M.D. was spotted by visitors on the Yosemite Valley Loop Trail. They recognized him from a missing persons flyer that they'd seen. He was found approximately a quarter mile east of the Lower Yosemite Fall trail in a large boulder field below Sunnyside Bench. M.D. sustained multiple injuries and was taken to a local hospital by ambulance.

M.D. was reported missing by a group of friends on the night of Saturday, March 21st, after a short hike to Lower Yosemite Fall. Approximately 50 search and rescue crew members had been searching for him since the initial report was received.

The park received assistance from the Madera, Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Marin County search and rescue teams and the Auburn office of California Highway Patrol.

[Public Affairs Office]

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):

Office of Communications - Director Jarvis will hold a webchat today at 2 p.m. Eastern. He will be joined by Alexa Viets, the NPS centennial coordinator, who will talk about the launching of “Find Your Park” and National Park Week, both set for next month.

Office of Communications - The NPS has released its FY 2014 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.49 billion nationwide total was up from the $11.3 billion reported at the end of FY 2013.

Biological Resource Management Division - The Spring/Summer issue of the NPS One Health Newsletter is now available. This issue includes a report on the team dealing with human-bat encounters at Mammoth Cave, a tick surveillance project, and more.

Kalaupapa NHP - Over two weeks in mid-March, the park hosted two Harpers Ferry Center conservators who conserved a number of significant objects within the park's curatorial facility.

United States Park Police - Mrs. Dorothy Hawkins, the 99-year-old mother of a former Park Police officer and creator of the Hawkins Award for distinguished graduates of the USPP course at FLETC, passed away on March 2nd.

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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