NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Friday, November 8, 2013
INCIDENTS
No incident reports received.
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's InsideNPS. To see the full text, 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 Morning Report web page ( HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/):
Office of Communications - This weekend, the Service will commemorate Veterans Day with many special programs and all visitors will enjoy free access to their national parks. Information is provided on those programs and on the battlefields, military parks, and historic sites within the NPS that commemorate and honor the service of American veterans.
Office of Communications - Ranger Jane Farmer from Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi is the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service's Freeman Tilden Award for interpretive excellence.
Park Facility Management Division - The Park Facility Management Division is seeking sustainable building stories and photographs for the upcoming winter edition of Sustainability News. Details are provided on how to make submissions.
Natural Resource Stewardship and Science - The call for natural resource FY 2014 technical assistance requests has been issued. Park completion and ranking of requests are due in STAR no later than December 2nd.
Bandelier NM - On October 23rd, Freda Mantei came to the park and stamped her NPS Passport, bringing the total number of stamps she's collected to 357 - including all the areas in the Lower 48 states.
Servicewide Training Calendar - A compilation of upcoming training courses, webinars and online training offered by the National Park Service and related agencies. The following have been added to this week's calendar - a national commemorations webinar next Thursday and two new FLETC offerings.
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The Morning Report is 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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