NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, June 5, 2015

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Search Underway For Missing River Guide

A search is underway for 22-year-old M.H., a river guide for Tour West, who's been missing since Tuesday.

M.H. was reported missing by a member of the river trip he was guiding following a hike near Pumpkin Springs. The group was on the sixth day of an eight-day trip when the incident occurred.

Three ground teams and a river team searched for him yesterday. The teams were dealing with heat, thick stands of tamarisk, boulders, and difficult terrain, as well as deep water with a strong current. No signs of Hemier have yet been found.

M.H. is six feet tall and has blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark-colored Astral personal flotation device, a blue plaid long sleeve shirt, a pair of Chaco sandals, a maroon baseball cap, and brightly colored shorts. He was also carrying a purple water bottle with him when he was last seen.

In addition to the search and rescue operation, the National Park Service is also conducting a missing persons investigation. Anyone with information on his location should contact the National Park Service Tipline at 928-638-7840.

[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 International Affairs - The National Park Service is supporting Unite4Heritage, a new campaign that has been begun to save world heritage sites threatened by extremists. The campaign is working to spread the word through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Ulysses S. Grant NHS - As part of the healing process following the tumult caused by the shooting in Ferguson, the park has held a series of programs on the changing role of African Americans before, during, and after the Civil War for all 600 students in the town's school district.

United States Park Police - Members of the Mounted Patrol Unit and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were recognized for their partnership and service at the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Maryland on May 16th.

Martin Luther King Jr. NHS - Rebecca Karcher is the new chief of interpretation, education and cultural resource management at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.

Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a webinar on supervising employees who were once peers, a career development webinar, and a webinar on motivating and empowering employees.

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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