NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

BLACKBERRY EDITION

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

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INCIDENTS

Florida Parks

Parks Close, Await Ernesto's Arrival

Parks along the Florida coastline have largely completed preparations for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ernesto, which may again be a hurricane when it reaches the United States mainland:

Biscayne NP - The park closed on Monday. Boats have been moved to Everglades in accordance with the park's hurricane plan.

Big Cypress NP - The park was completely closed as of 4:30 p.m. yesterday.

Canaveral NS - The park was in the process of buttoning up yesterday.

Everglades NP - The park closed down at 6 a.m. on Monday. All concessions operations have also shut down.

Dry Tortugas NP - The park closed on Sunday. Volunteers were moved from Loggerhead Key to the safety of the fort. All campers departed yesterday afternoon.

[Jeff Brice, NPS Assistant Coordinator, Southern Area Coordination Center]

OTHER NEWS

Other news of interest from today's edition of InsideNPS, which can be found at this address if your inside the NPS ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/" http://inside.nps.gov/) and at this address if you're outside the NPS ( HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/). Note that not all articles that appear in the former make it into the latter:

Chiricahua - Joe Evans to retire in October.

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Prepared by Visitor and Resource Protection, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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