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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Tuesday, August 26, 2014 INCIDENTS No 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): Denali NP&P - Seven arthropod researchers traveled to Denali National Park and Preserve in July to conduct the park's first “Bug Bio-Blitz,” an intensive effort to catalog the biodiversity of several invertebrate taxa within just a few days. Indiana Dunes NL - Scientists have begun the second phase of research into the mysterious holes that have been appearing in the Mount Baldy sand dune at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Whiskeytown NRA - On August 12th, Secretary Jewell met with staff at Whiskeytown during a visit to northern California to get an update on firefighting operations in the region. Office of Communications - The NPS has awarded more than $1.5 million in grants under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to assist museums, Indian tribes, and Alaska native villages with documenting and returning human remains and cultural objects to their native people. Kennesaw Mountain NBP - The park has received a Ticket to Ride grant from the National Park Foundation. It will be used to allow nearly 700 Paulding County fifth grade students to visit the park and learn about the history that was made in their backyards. Lassen Volcanic NP - After several months of research, planning, and development, Kristina Lammers and her family unveiled a new exhibit on the namesake of the park's largest hydrothermal area. 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). --- ### --- |