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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, October 22, 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): Fort Vancouver NHS - Fort Vancouver National Historic Site has acquired an extremely rare 1919 DeHavilland DH-4B "Liberty" biplane for exhibit at the park's Pearson Air Museum and Jack Murdock Aviation Center. Today's Almanac - Heavy rain is forecast for opposite corners of the country - western Washington and eastern New England. Tropical Storm Ana continues to move away from Hawaii; a depression in the Gulf of Mexico will likely become a tropical storm today. Poverty Point NM - Director Jon Jarvis joined with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, Senator Mary Landrieu, other dignitaries, and a large crowd of citizens on October 11th to celebrate the official inscription of Poverty Point as a World Heritage Site. Theodore Roosevelt NP - Clear skies, crisp autumn weather, and enthusiastic crowds all contributed to the success of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Historic Medora's second annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival. Kings Mountain NMP - The newly formed Southern Campaign of the American Revolution group of parks successfully completed its first collaborative interpretive effort with the 2014 Upstate Revolutionary War Weekend. Rock Creek Park - A multi-divisional team from WASO and NCR participated in Fiesta Washington DC, the city's largest Latino event, on September 21st, and another, similar festival on the 28th. Mount Rainier NP - On October 31st, Chuck Young, Mount Rainier's chief ranger, will be putting away his NPS flat hat for the final time after serving 37 years in the National Park Service. 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). --- ### --- |