NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, February 3, 2012

INCIDENTS

Capitol Reef NP

Vandals Pay Thousands For Site Restoration

In August, 2010, rangers discovered that vandalism had occurred at an archeological site in the park where historic signatures had been inscribed by famous western personalities Butch Cassidy, Matt Warner, and Silvertip. The recently inscribed names of at least eight individuals, along with the year 2010, were etched into the walls of the alcove near the historic inscriptions. By investigating Facebook postings, rangers were able to identify the responsible individuals as a result of information that they had posted about their recent family reunion in the park. Once identified, members of the group took full responsibility. They paid a total of $6,045 for site restoration under the authority provided by the Park System Resource Protection Act (16USC 19jj). Professional restoration of the site will commence this year. Ranger Brenda Zirwas was the case ranger. [Scott Brown, Chief Ranger]

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/):

Office of Communications - Secretary Salazar and Director Jarvis held a town hall meeting on travel and tourism in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday and took the opportunity to announce $4 million for battlefield preservation while at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for new exhibits at the Glendale Visitor Center at Richmond NBP.

Servicewide Training and Conference Calendar - A compilation of upcoming training courses and conferences across the nation, plus online training.  The following are new additions to this week's calendar - a course on submerged cultural resources law enforcement at Biscayne, an offering of Financial Management 101 in Colorado Springs, and a series of 16 green purchasing topical webinars from this spring through next fall.

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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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