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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Thursday, December 22, 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/): Pinnacles NM - The park conducted a small prescribed fire on Thursday, December 8th, as part of a joint fire science program research project to learn about the traditional use of fire in central California. The burn was ignited by a representative of the Amah Mutsun tribe. Office of Communications - The first round of competition in “Parks for the People: A Studio Competition to Re-imagine America's National Parks” has concluded. Teams from nine colleges and universities advanced from a field of 41 entries to design studio exercises and face a second jury review next summer. Northeast Region - A check for $309,000 has been presented to Flight 93 Memorial to help the memorials construction. US Park Police - Services will be held next week for Park Police Sergeant Michael Boehm, who died while responding to an incident on December 16th. Details are provided on both the services and on the wearing of mourning bands on badges. National Capital Region - Carol A. Pollio has been named the new chief of natural resources and science for National Capital Region. She assumed her new duties this past Monday. Grand Canyon NP - Dan Oltrogge, the park's chief of fire and aviation, will retire at the end of December after 31 years with the National Park Service. Land Resources Division - Dewayne Prince, chief of Midwest Region's Land Resources Program Center, is retiring on December 31st after 38 years of federal service, 13 of which have been with the National Park Service * * * * 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). --- ### --- |