NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Monday, February 7, 2011

INCIDENTS

No new incident reports have been received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):

Lincoln Home NHS - From February 11th to February 23rd, the NPS will mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's inaugural journey from his home in Illinois to Washington, D.C. A series of programs in 16 communities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and the District of Columbia will feature the acclaimed Lincoln actor Fritz Klein as the president-elect.

Workplace Enrichment - Workplace Enrichment is offering a new series on leadership and management that will focus on inspiring and motivating practices used by leaders around the Service. Photo.

Badlands NP - On January 27th, a 33-million-year-old saber tooth cat fossil met state-of-the-art 21st century CT scan technology at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Photo.

Office of Human Resources - OPM has introduced a new program called Pathways, which consolidates programs for recruiting and hiring students and recent graduates.

Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings and the status of legislation pertinent to the NPS. Today's summary includes a Senate hearing on FY 2012 DOI appropriations and six new bills, including two for possible new units and one for a possible new national historic trail.

National Capital Region - Woody Smeck, superintendent of Santa Monica Mountains NRA, will be serving a 120-day detail as regional director for National Capital Region, effective February 13th. Photo.

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of Communications and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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