NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, November 6, 2009

INCIDENTS

No new incident reports received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Point Reyes NS - More than 170 endangered tidewater gobies from the Gicaomini Wetlands were transplanted by biologists from Point Reyes and Golden Gate to adjacent Tomales Bay State Park last month in an effort to expand the population of this highly vulnerable species. Photo.

Grand Canyon NP - Grand Canyon National Park held a Climate Friendly Parks (CFP) workshop in mid-October. The CFP program assists national parks with management tools and resources to address climate change, both within park boundaries and the surrounding community. Over 100 participants attended the workshop. Photo.

Southeast Region - During the week of October 13th through October 16th, 53 interpretive rangers from throughout Southeast Region attended a training session on interpretive media and the Facility Management Software System (FMSS). Photo.

Acadia NP - Deb Wade, the park's chief of interpretation, will retire on November 6th after 35 years of federal service, 32 of which were with the National Park Service. Photo.

Servicewide Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added to this week's listing are the following - two offerings of command and general staff training for incident management teams (Shepherdstown and Albuquerque), two more offerings of Fundamentals II at the Grand Canyon this spring, an EMT-B refresher at Pinnacles next month, a webinar on Monday on the R statistical package, firearms instructor training at FLETC, and a number of new and upcoming TEL station training courses, ranging from law enforcement refreshers to retirement training.

To see these and other stories posted on InsideNPS (or NPS Digest, its public version), click on one or the other of the following links (please note that not all stories in the former appear in the latter): NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index ; non-NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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