NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, December 18, 2009

INCIDENTS

No new incident reports have been received.

OTHER NEWS

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

Appalachian Trail - How many visitors are there to the Appalachian Trail - and how do we count them? A project is now underway to develop an effective system for tallying the number of hikers on the trail.

Sleeping Bear Dunes NL - Environmental specialist Mike Duwe is retiring on January 1st after 31 years of dedicated federal service, 28 of which were with the National Park Service.

Servicewide - 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 more Fundamentals II classes at Albright Training Center, commercial service monthly chats for June and July, a new deadline for applying to the NPS facility manager leaders program, an interdisciplinary resource protection and law course in Alaska, and a pair of courses - one on NEPA, the other on PEPC - being given in MWRO and SERO.

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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