NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, December 31, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

96-707 - Redwood NP&SP (California) - Storm Impacts

The intense winter storms striking the Pacific Northwest have dropped heavy
rains on the park.  A small river and stream flood watch has been posted, and
roads throughout the area are closed, including Highway 199, which is closed
to the town of Medford.  It is not known when the latter will reopen.  Newton
Drury parkway has also been closed due to fallen tree tops and debris on the
road.  [Janet Cooper, REDW]

96-708 - Baltimore Washington Parkway (Maryland) - MVA with Fatality

D.C., 27, of Vienna, Virginia, was killed in a single car
accident on the parkway around 10 a.m. on December 26th.  His vehicle left
the road, struck a bridge abutment, and burst into flames.  D.C. was
killed on impact.  Park Police officers are investigating.  [Bill Lynch, LES,
NCFA]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Resource Careers - Many people have apparently not yet seen the Resources
Careers package, which was announced in the Morning Report on December 11th. 
The memorandum went out via cc:Mail to superintendents, field directors, and
associate directors more than two weeks ago.  The cover memo and the attached
instructions/worksheet were also posted on the natural resources and
administration bulletin boards.  Please note that the worksheets are needed
back by January 17th so that the data on financial impacts of the initiative
can be compiled for the NLC meeting the following week.  Electronic return of
the worksheets to Kathy M. Davis at NP-SOAR is encouraged.  There are two
other parts of the package, both of which are very large so they are not
posted on the bulletin boards.  If you want either one, please send a cc:Mail
message to Bob Krumenaker at NP-SHEN and he will send them to you directly. 
If you want them both, indicate whether or not you want them sent together in
one message, which makes for a very big file which could overwhelm some
remote cc:Mail connections.  These two parts are the professional development
plan (PDP), a concept paper, and the benchmark position descriptions, which
are needed to fill out the worksheets.  The first is an 81k zipped WP file;
the second is a 207k zipped WP file.  Note that the deadlines for comments on
the PDs and the PDP have been extended to February 14th.  [Bob Krumenaker,
Resources Careers Committee]

Name Change - Effective tomorrow, Coulee Dam National Recreation Area (CODA)
officially becomes Lake Roosevelt NRA (LARO).  The name change more
accurately reflects the primary resource being managed and will remove the
confusion visitors often experience when looking for Lake Roosevelt (as the
area has been known regionally since 1946) or the Grand Coulee Dam.  The name
change is being phased in on documents, but has already been made on cc:Mail.

Correction - The amount of money stolen from Derrick Brooks in the armed
robbery on Natchez Trace Parkway was just over $1,070, not $1,700 as reported
yesterday.

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.  

We end this year with a repeat of one of the first observations to appear in
this section, one which is a cornerstone of the philosophy of the National
Park Service:

"There is nothing so American as our national parks.  The scenery and
wildlife are native.  The fundamental idea behind the parks is native.  It
is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process
of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.  The parks stand as
the outward symbol of this great human principle."

                                        - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
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