- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Friday, February 27, 1998
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Friday, February 27, 1998
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
98-50 - Colorado NM (CO) - Follow-up on Falling Fatality
On or about January 26th, C.K., 15, fell 350 feet to his death in the
vicinity of the Liberty Cap formation. His body was found six days later
after an extensive search effort. The subsequent investigation - including
evaluation of evidence at the scene and a disturbed area where the boy
apparently attempted to arrest his fall - has confirmed that the death was
accidental. [Ron Young, CR, COLM, 2/26]
98-80 - Badlands NP (SD) - Winter Storm Impacts
A snow storm with high winds gusting to 75 mph struck the park on Wednesday,
February 25th. Most park signs were flattened, and the winds caused white-
out conditions in the Pinnacles District, located in the northwest portion of
the park. Damage was also inflicted on the park's housing area.
Temperatures remained in the 20s; there was little snow accumulation. An
inspection of the park was to be conducted yesterday if conditions permitted.
Extremely high winds were still blowing at the time of the report yesterday
morning. [Marianne Mills, PIO, BADL, 2/26]
98-81 - Natchez NHP (MS) - Tornado
A tornado struck downtown Natchez, Mississippi, around 10 a.m. yesterday
morning. Many of the historic structures in the downtown area of the city
were damaged, including "Rosalie," an antebellum mansion adjacent to the
park's Fort Rosalie property. The extent of the damage to park structures
was not fully known at the time of the report yesterday afternoon, but was
believed to be limited to slight damage to the William Johnson and McCallum
houses. Neither property was open to the public or occupied at the time.
The area of the city affected by the tornado has been closed to vehicle and
pedestrian traffic. [Bill Justice, CR, NATC, 2/26]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No entries.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
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MEMORANDA
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EXCHANGE
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WEB DIRECTORY
The Morning Report periodically runs a listing of Worldwide Web sites of use
to NPS employees in the course of their work. Please send along entries -
and corrections, in case of address errors - to the editor.
Thanks to the following for providing this month's additions:
Bill Lynch, NCRO - US Park Police site.
Tim Devine, ROMO - Wilderness and backcountry management sites.
Herschel Schulz, ELMA - Info on identifying and planning vegetation and
soils planting programs.
Joel Wright - Excess military equipment.
Maureen Foster, WASO - NPS organization charts.
Glenda Jackson, WRD - Several natural resource entries.
Glenda has also picked up on many small errors that have appeared in past web
listings. She will be providing a summary of those to the editor and the
next listing will note all the corrections. As noted above, readers are also
encouraged to send along emendations.
All new entries are marked with asterisks (*); all revised entries are marked
with pound signs (#).
NPS SITES
Congressional Affairs office http://www.nps.gov/legal
Training and Development office http://www.nps.gov/training
NPS Web page development info http://www.nps.gov/helpdesk (user name:
NPS, password: Mather)
Current VIP opportunities http://www.nps.gov/volunteer
Press releases, park news, more http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/pressrm.htm
Q&A with volunteer NPS historians http://www.nps.gov/crweb1/history/askhist.htm
Geologists-in-Parks program http://www.aqd.nps.gov/natnet/grd/geojob/geojob.htm
Harpers Ferry wayside exhibits http://www.nps.gov/waysite
NPS safety info http://www.nps.gov/riskmgmt
NCR Museum Resource Center http://www.nps.gov/mrc
National Center for Preservation
Technology and Training http://www.cr.nps.gov/npctt
NPS training opportunities http://www.nps.gov/training
NPS strategic plan http://www.nps.gov - InfoZone, Park Planning
NPS "Courier" magazine http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/courier/index.htm
NPS intake training program http://www.nps.gov/intake
U.S. Park Police http://www.doi.gov/U.S.Park.Police/
NPS organization charts http://www.nps.gov/refdesk/Refdesk.htm
DOI SITES
DOI address directory http://www.doi.gov/cgi-bin/mailsrch
DOI jobs listings http://www.usgs.gov/doi/avads/index.html
DOI IG reports http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/ig.html
DOI payroll, Denver http://www.dasc.doi.gov
DOI safety http://safety.doi.gov
DOI recreation lakes commission http://www.doi.gov.nrls
OTHER AGENCY SITES
Comptroller General decisions http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gaocd.html
GAO reports http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gao.html
OPM jobs listings http://www.usajobs.opm.gov
USDA graduate school http://www.grad.usda.gov
Thrift Savings Plan http://www.tsp.gov
New legislation (NECTEA) re:
funding for park roads http://www.fhwa.dot.gov
OPM locality pay rates http://www.opm.gov/pay/index.htm
CFR and Federal Register info http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection http://www.ftc.gov
IG networks http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/ignet
Fed Employees News Digest http://www.clubfed.com
Wildland fire information http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire
National registry for EMTs http://www.nremt.org
Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov
Standard government forms http://web1.whs.osd.mil/icdhome/SFEFORMS.HTM
Excess military equipment * http://www.drms.dla.mil
CONGRESSIONAL SITES
All Senate offices, committees http://www.senate.gov
All House offices, committees http://www.house.gov
Bills, reports, related info http://thomas.loc.gov
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SITES
Exotic invasive species http://www.aqd.nps.gov/npci
Malformed amphibians reports http://www.npwrc.org/narcam
Mineral developments near parks http://www.aqd.nps.gov/facts/fadjacen.htm
Vegetation/soils planting info * http://plants.usda.gov
"Park Science" magazine * http://www.aqd.nps.gov/nrid/parksci/
"Natural Resource Year in Review" * http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yr_rvw96/
Natural resource pubs list * http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/
NRM fact sheets * http://www.aqd.nps.gov/facts/findex.htm
WILDERNESS/BACKCOUNTRY MANAGEMENT SITES
Arthur Carhart training center * http://www.wilderness.net/carhart
Aldo Leopold institute * http://www.wilderness.net/leopold
Leave No Trace program * http://www.lnt.org
LEGAL SITES
United States Code http://law.house.gov/usc.htm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
Code of Federal Regulations http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
Federal Register http://www.nara/fedreg/fedreg.html
http://www.access.gpo.gove/su_docs/
Federal Acquisition Regulations http://www.gsa.gov/far/current/html/toc.html
Executive Orders http://www.arnet.gov/References/References.html
OMB Circulars http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OMB/
Supreme Court cases http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.table.html
Federal Circuit cases http://www.law.emory.edu/fedcircuit/
http://www.gao.gov/decisions/decision.htm
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html
FLRA cases http://febbbs.access.gpo.gov/libs/flra_dec.html
MSPB cases http://www.access.gpo.gov/mspb
FLETC legal updates http://wwww.sbaonline.sba.gov/ignet/library/legalupd/legalupd.html
Environmental law http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/envlaw.html
Ethics issues http://www.usoge.gov/
Federal laws in general http://www.fedworld.gov
http://fedlaw.gsa. gov
ARPA/NAGPRA laws http://www.nmia/com/~quasho
Info on legal issues http://www.Lawcheck.com/main.html
Laws, court rulings, related info http://www.findlaw.com
ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION SITES
Environmental contract fraud info http://www.echotech.com
http://www.afce.org
http://www.fraud.org
Investigation hotline http://www.netrail.net/~hotline/investigations
Info on militia groups, etc. http://www.splcenter.org
OTHER RELEVANT SITES
Student Conservation Association http://www.sca-inc.org
George Wright Society http://www.portup.com/~gws/home.html
GWS park-related links http://www.portup.com/~gws.gwsnet.html
Links to NPs worldwide http://149.170.210.2/~keith/links.htm
Links to park-related topics http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/pnp/pnp.htm
National Center for Accessibility http://www.indiana.edu/~nca
Recycled content procurement http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/procure.html
http://www.metrokc.gov/oppis/recyclea.html
http://www.pnl.gov/esp/greenguide
fcn.state.fl.us/bpsr/drc_notice.html
Telephone directory searches http://www.pc411.com/pc411v2.html
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