OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Searchers have discontinued intensive efforts to find Gilbert Gilman, a state retirement administrator who has been missing in the Staircase area since June 24.
Olympic National Park employees, while continuing to keep watch for signs of the 47-year-old Gilman, returned to their usual duties on Wednesday.
“We”ve reached the limits of what we can do,” said Ranger Mike Danisiewicz, head of the search effort.
Park employees will keep looking, but while doing their usual work, said Cat Hawkins-Hoffman, park spokeswoman.
“We did not call the search off,” she said.
Employees will maintain “a heightened sense of awareness” for the missing man while “getting back to our normal staffing level at Staircase,” she said.
Hawkins-Hoffman said that park officials had conferred with members of Gilman’s family.
They included his mother, Doris Gilman, and her partner, Burt Persky; Gilman’s sister, Lori Mattiasen, 48, of New York; and his girlfriend, Donovan Slack, 38, a reporter for the Boston Globe.
Gilman, deputy director of the state Department of Retirement Systems, parked his 2005 Ford Thunderbird at the Staircase Ranger Station on Saturday, June 24.
