NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Friday, March 6, 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):
Park Facility Management Division - The Climate Friendly Parks Program hosted a virtual climate workshop this week for park staff in the Alaska Region. The program is dedicated to mitigating climate change in parks through a variety of practices and procedures.
Fort Sumter NM - A rare 10-inch Columbiad cannon at Fort Sumter, which has been sitting on a deteriorating wooden carriage for years, has received a new carriage.
Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Division - Rita Hennessy, longtime trails administrator and National Park Service veteran, is the new program manager for the Service's National Trails System.
Parashant NM - The International Dark-Sky Association recently presented Eathan McIntyre, the park's physical scientist, with the 2014 Dark Sky Defender Award for his efforts in preserving night skies.
Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - WebEx sessions on the Girl Scout ranger program and on use of WebEx itself, a course on assistance agreements, two science communication workshops for natural resource professionals, a course on NPS right-of-way permitting, and three monthly NPS digital Servicewide calls/webinars.
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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