NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, May 22, 2015

INCIDENTS

New River Gorge NR

Man Jumps To Death From New River Gorge Bridge

A 24-year-old Ohio man leapt from the New River Gorge bridge to his death around 8 p.m. last Tuesday evening.

Several witnesses saw him sitting on the bridge railing, and then noticed he had disappeared. He fell approximately 200 feet on the north side of the bridge. His body was recovered near a bridge piling in steep terrain; his car was found in a local business parking lot.

West Virginia State Police, Fayette County Sheriff's Office, Fayetteville Police Department officers, Fayetteville Fire Department and Jan Care Ambulance personnel, and New River Gorge rangers worked the scene. Fayette County Sheriff's Office detectives and rangers are conducting an investigation into circumstances surrounding the incident.

[Jeff West, 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):

Lassen Volcanic NP - One hundred years ago, Lassen Peak literally blew its top. On May 22, 1915, a large explosive eruption of the volcano brought national attention that set the stage for the establishment of the park a year later.

Harpers Ferry NHP - The National Park Service Honor Guard paid tribute to fallen police officers during the 26th Annual National Police Week events in Washington, DC.

Geologic Resources Division - A new cave ecology inventory and monitoring report is now available. It provides managers with tools to determine variability and long-term trends in cave biota.

Kennesaw Mountain NBP - Thomas Sparks, facility manager at Kennesaw Mountain, will bring his career with the National Park Service to a conclusion when he retires on May 30th.

Lava Beds NM - David Hansen has been selected as the chief ranger for Lava Beds National Monument and the Tule Lake Unit of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument.

Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a series of revenue reconciliation training webinars, two webinars on designing NPS.gov websites for mobile applications, a workshop on oral histories, and a webinar on advanced project management.

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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