NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

INCIDENTS

Gila Cliff Dwellings NM

Park Closures Continue

The park's cliff dwellings remain closed due to continuing repairs to the West Fork Bridge, which will likely continue until Christmas or later, and the park's visitor center is now scheduled to be closed for a two-week period as well. Work began yesterday on replacing the roof covering on the lobby/museum and offices portions of the main building and the separate restroom building. Asbestos-containing materials in the ceiling in the lobby and museum will also be removed. Work began on the roofs on Tuesday; asbestos removal will begin on December 6th. During the latter, which may take as long as two weeks, the visitor center will be closed and a temporary contact facility will be placed in front of it. The roof replacement is not expected to impact visitor use of the building except for brief periods when work directly above doorways may require temporary closures. [Steve Riley, Superintendent]

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/):

National Hurricane Center - The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends today. There were 19 tropical storms this year, seven of which became hurricanes, three of them major. Several parks were pummeled, but damage overall was not as bad as incurred in many seasons over the past two decades.

Office of Communications - Rich Weideman has been selected as the National Park Service's assistant director for partnerships and civic engagement.

Jean Lafitte NHP&P - Nigel Fields, currently a supervisory biologist for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Science Policy, will join the NPS as chief of interpretation and education at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced with the support of the Office of the Assistant Director for Information Resources 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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