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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Monday, March 10, 2014 INCIDENTS No incident reports received. OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers): Andersonville NHS - Over a thousand visitors participated in events and programs over the first two weekends in March to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of Andersonville prison in late February 1864, marking the beginning of two years of scheduled programs to remember prisoners of war held at Andersonville and other Civil War prisons. US Park Police - The third Monday in February marked the beginning of an eight-week-long Park Police sponsored narcotics detection training school for five canines and their new handlers from the nation of Georgia. Saint Croix NSR - On Saturday, March 1st, the Upper Midwest's sister parks and partner groups in Costa Rica held their first annual bird festival to say farewell to their departing neotropical migratory birds, now beginning their annual migration to North America. Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the National Park Service. This report covers activities in Congress for the week ending March 7th. Southeast Region - Nancy Carter has been selected as the new chief of Southeast Region's Land Resources Program Center. She follows Jim Strotman, who retired in December. To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites: NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/ 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). --- ### --- |