NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, March 12, 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):

Saguaro NP - Saguaro National Park and the Southeast Arizona Group parks hosted a week-long “sister park” meeting in late February for more than 20 Mexican national park biologists and managers from eight parks.

Office of Risk Management - As a result of the feedback from the field on the draft NPS safety, health and wellness strategy, this initiative has expanded from a strategy framework into the development of a comprehensive strategic planning package.

Office of Communications - The movement of all non "Plan Your Visit" sections of park websites into two top-level navigation items - "Learn About the Park" and "Get Involved" - has been completed.

Geologic Resources Division - The Geologic Resources Division has produced a series of GIS-based interactive energy and mineral-related maps that will make it possible to determine the proximity of energy and mineral resources to NPS and affiliated areas.

Golden Spike NHS - Tammy Benson, chief of operations at Golden Spike National Historic Site, will be retiring on March 31st after 30 years with the National Park Service.

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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