Today's Morning Report will not be posted until later in the day. In 
the interim, here's a short biographic note on Fran Mainella, who 
President Bush named yesterday as his nominee for director of the 
National Park Service:

Fran Mainella is the director of the Division of Recreation and Parks 
for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  She has over 
30 years of experience in the field of park and recreation with a 
bachelor of science and a masters' degree. Fran is immediate past 
president of the National  Association of State Park Directors, past 
president of the National Recreation and Park Association, and 
secretary of Florida A & M University's Landscape Design and 
Management Program Advisory Council. Fran also serves as the outdoor 
recreational state liaison officer for the state of Florida, 
administering Land and Water Conservation Fund grants. She is a member 
of the Florida Tourism Commission and the statewide 
Eco-Tourism/Heritage Tourism Committee. Fran oversees the 
administration of 153 state parks consisting of more than 500,000 
acres. Her supervision of eight bureaus, two offices, and over 1,000 
employees has led to many accomplishments for the Florida Park 
Service. Most recently, at the National Recreation and Park 
Association Annual Congress meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, the 
National Sporting Goods Association awarded the prestigious 1999 
"State Parks Gold Medal" to Florida's state park system, recognizing 
it as the best state park system in all 50 states.

For more information on the Florida park system, go to:

http://www8.myflorida.com/communities/learn/stateparks/information/
director.html