NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Wednesday, April 22, 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):

Gulf Islands NS - The beaches at Gulf Island National Seashore were named the best in Florida in a poll recently conducted by USA Today to determine readers' favorite beach in that state.

Office of Communications - Grand Canyon Ranger Bil Vandergraff has been named the 2014 recipient of the Harry Yount Award, the National Park Service's highest ranger honor.

Lyndon B. Johnson NHP - On April 11th, the park commemorated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 at the same school where the original bill was signed.

Information Resources Directorate - The most recent edition of Radio Connection Newsletter, highlighting Servicewide radio program activity during the second quarter of FY 2015, has been posted to the web.

NPS Alumni - Herbert Olsen, 89, a career NPS employee and past superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore, passed away on Wednesday, April 8th.

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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