NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, January 26, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

No new incident reports received.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

OBSERVATIONS

In a recent letter to your correspondent declining an offer to speak at an NPS
gathering due to conflicts, National Book Award-winnng author Barry Lopez
("Arctic Dreams," "Of Wolves and Men," "Crossing Open Ground," and, recently,
"Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren") offered these words of
support and encouragement to all employees of the National Park Service.  If
you'd like to send a note in reply, please forward it to this address:

"My admiration for what you are all doing in the face of such opposition is
enormous.  I am eager, always, to make that sense of admiration clear to
others, and look forward to a time when I can stand up and say so in a public
forum.  Until then, I wish you every strength, and a big change of wind in your
sails."

                                     Author Barry Lopez, note
                                     to NPS employees, 1996

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Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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