NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Monday, March 15, 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):

Great Basin NP - The park held two lint removal and cave restoration camps this winter, the first over a three-day period last month and the second over two days in March. During these five days, 46 volunteers spent nearly 500 hours cleaning numerous sections of Lehman Cave.

Gateway NRA - The American Littoral Society, whose home office is in the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its all-volunteer fish tagging program this year.

Civil War To Civil Rights Program - A recently published book, Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War, is now out and available. It joins two other books in a series recounting the contributions of diverse ethnic groups in the Civil War.

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 Service. This report covers activities in Congress through March 13th.

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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