NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Monday, June 1, 2015
INCIDENTS
Lake Meredith NRA
Local Man Drowns In Lake
A 21-year-old Amarillo resident died at Spring Canyon just below the Sanford Dam on Wednesday, May 27th.
The Borger Police Department received a 911 call around 11:30 a.m. reporting that a swimmer had gone under and had not surfaced.
Rangers arrived on scene within minutes and had a john boat and two kayaks in the water within 30 minutes of the initial 911 call. Search efforts were accompanied by a grid ground search by NPS firefighters in the Spring Canyon swimming area. The man's body was found by the Amarillo Police Department's dive team about an hour later.
[Robert Maguire]
Badlands NP
Rangers Assist In High Speed Interstate Pursuit
Rangers Danny Baker and Tyson Nehring assisted the South Dakota Highway Patrol and Pennington County Sheriff's Department in a high speed pursuit on the morning of May 6th.
The pursuit began when a trooper observed a vehicle traveling east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 at 100 mph. Aside from the high rate of speed, the vehicle was being operated in a reckless manner; the driver of the vehicle was intentionally trying to utilize it to ram other motorists off the interstate.
The two rangers joined the pursuit at Exit 131. The rangers and deputies from the Pennington County Sheriff's Department deployed road spikes near mile marker 123, disabling the vehicle. The driver was taken into custody without incident.
A search of the vehicle resulted in the discovery of a citation issued by a trooper in Sioux Falls earlier in the morning for traveling 96 mph in an 80 mph zone.
[Casey J. Osback, 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):
Chattahoochee River NRA - Park staff and state, local, business, and government partners are working to assess and protect a little known species of bass that is found in the Chattahoochee River.
US Park Police - On May 21st, a Below 100 training session was held at the National Conservation Training Center in West Virginia. Officers from several agencies attended.
Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the Service. This report covers activities in Congress for the week ending May 29th.
Mount Rainier NP - Donna Rahier, the superintendent's secretary, will retire on June 3rd after 48 years with the National Park Service, all of it at Mount Rainier National Park.
Social Science Program - Dr. David Pettebone has joined the WASO Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate as the social science research coordinator. He will be duty stationed in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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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