NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, December 26, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

No incidents reported.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Golden Eagle Passports - Acting Deputy Director Galvin has approved an
increase in the Golden Eagle from $25 to $50, effective on January 1st.  The
official memorandum will appear shortly.  Please call Tim Stone in Ranger
Activities at 202-208-4205 if you need additional information.  

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

EXCHANGE

No submissions.

OBSERVATIONS

This section, which will now appear intermittently in the Morning Report,
contains observations regarding the National Park Service, the System and the
several professions of park employees.  

"While we're trying to preserve in our natural parks a record of biological
and human history, we're also trying to preserve something a little harder to
understand: A foundation for the rediscovery of North America, the
perpetuation of the idea that a resource does not have to be used in order to
be valuable, and that the land has a dignity and a power all its own.  It
does not require anything from us.  Parks preserve the idea that something
does not have to have a purpose to have life."

                                        Author and naturalist Barry Lopez

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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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