NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, January 24, 2013

INCIDENTS

No reports today.

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/):

United States Park Police - Park Police units were busy during Monday's inaugural, both with managing the huge crowds in and around the National Mall and as participants in the inaugural parade.

Everglades NP - On January 11th, Everglades National Park joined other federal and state partners at the C-111 Spreader Canal Western Project to celebrate the completion of a key component in improving freshwater deliveries to the southern end of the Everglades ecosystem.

Office of Risk Management - Ranger Robert Mahn was killed in a snowmobile accident while working at Yellowstone 19 years ago this month. His memory is honored, but more important than remembrance of his life and passion for public service is the need to learn from the incident that took his life.

Cultural Resources - Following the passage of Hurricane Sandy, members of the Arborist Incident Response (AIR) Team, a skilled group of arborists from across the Service, set to work on storm-damaged trees at five parks in Northeast Region.

Southeast Region - Brion FitzGerald has been selected as the new superintendent of Virgin Islands National Park. He will take over his new duties in mid-February.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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