NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, June 14, 2013

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/):

Saguaro NP - Members of the Southwest Conservation Corps assisted the park this week with the removal of graffiti along a popular park trail. The clean-up project was arranged in response to significant vandalism that occurred last month, including the tagging of 48 sites along three-and-a-half miles of the wilderness trail.   

Office of Risk Management - The winners of the highest awards bestowed by the National Park Service for outstanding public and employee safety achievement for the individual and group categories for 2012 have been selected. 

Office of Communications - The National Park Service has awarded more than $3.3 million in grants to help preserve more than 200 acres of land at five of America's Civil War battlefields -- Ball's Bluff, Brandy Station, Chickamauga, First Deep Bottom, and Second Manassas.

US Park Police - On May 18th, the United States Park Police's San Francisco Field Office participated in the fifth annual San Francisco Bike Build. This event provides new bicycles, safety equipment, and bicycle safety classes to disadvantaged youth throughout the greater Bay Area.  

Intermountain Region - John Reber, energy coordinator for Intermountain Region, is retiring on June 28th after 22 years with the National Park Service.

Lowell NHP - Ranger Alex Demas retired on May 31st after 33 years of federal service at Lowell National Historical Park.

Servicewide Training Calendar - A new FLETC training course has been added to this week's calendar.

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Guidance on incident notification can be found under the “Hot Topics” heading on InsideNPS or at HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504" http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504.

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@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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