NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Monday, March 11, 2013

INCIDENTS

No reports received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):

Director's Office - On Friday, March 8th, Director Jarvis issued a Servicewide all-employee memorandum entitled “Implementation Of Sequestration Budget Cuts.” The full text is provided.

John Day Fossil Beds NM - The partial skull of a new fisher species was recently found in the park. This discovery represents the earliest record of a fisher in the world - more than 5 million years earlier than other records of fishers in North America.

Cabrillo NM - Cabrillo National Monument is partnering with its neighbor, the United States Navy, to restore endangered native plant habitat along San Diego's Point Loma Peninsula.  

Alaska Region - Three NPS scientists with the Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network have published a paper that describes efforts to explore and test new methodological approaches for monitoring passerine bird species.

Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the National Park Service. This report covers the week ending on Friday, March 8th.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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