NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, January 9, 2015

INCIDENTS

No reports received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):

Fire and Aviation Management - For the first time since the early 1970's, when the Department of the Interior began tracking aviation data and accidents, the National Park Service has gone three fiscal years -- from 2012 to 2014 -- without an aviation accident.

Today's Almanac - Frigid air will cover much of the country today. Highs in some areas of the northern Great Plains and upper Midwest will be in the single digits or below zero.

Gateway NRA - When a big oil sheen washed ashore in the park's Sandy Hook Unit, federal and state agencies received assistance from an unexpected source - local high school students.

Youth Programs - The NPS and Girl Scouts are renewing their partnership this year with the launching of a new national joint program and want to hear some Girl Scout memories from the NPS community.

Southeast Region - Dale Wilkerson has been selected as the next superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park. Wilkerson has served since 2007 as the administrative officer at Natchez Trace Parkway.

Northeast Region - Ethan McKinley has been selected as the new superintendent of First State National Historical Park in Delaware. He comes to the position from Northeast Regional Office.

Saint Croix NSR - John Franklin “Jack” Pattie, a retired NPS land resources officer, passed away on December 29th. Services will be held tomorrow in Kansas.

Denver Service Center - Chris Church was recently selected as the Servicewide resource stewardship strategy coordinator by the Park Planning and Special Studies program and Denver Service Center.

Northeast Region - Carol Hegeman, supervisory historian at Eisenhower National Historic Site, was recognized with a DOI superior service award upon her retirement from the NPS on January 3rd.

Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - two offerings of a training class on the fundamentals of special park uses, the annual western offering of the Service's basic technical rescue training course at Canyonlands, and a course on bridging the nature-culture divide at the Presidio.

To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:

NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index

Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/

The Morning Report is 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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