NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

NOTICE

This email edition of the Morning Report will NOT be produced from tomorrow until the following Wednesday due to the editor being on the road. All stories will still be available on the Morning Report or InsideNPS webpages. The links appear below.

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):

Natural Resource Stewardship and Science - The Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate recently released an unprecedented review of ungulate management across the entire agency. The report reveals that native and non-native ungulates now occur across at least 56% of all NPS units, comprising over 98% of NPS lands, with twice as many non-native species as native species present.

NPS Alumni - Marian Albright Schenck, 93, daughter of past Director Horace Albright, passed away on April 17th in Red Bluff, California.

Intermountain Region - About 5,000 people were present at Oklahoma City National Memorial on April 19th for a ceremony marking the twentieth anniversary of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Office of Relevancy, Diversity and Inclusion - Six Employee Resource Groups have been formed to advance the goals of relevancy, diversity and inclusion throughout the National Park Service.

Operational Leadership - On April 22nd, several NPS Operational Leadership partners gathered at Rocky Mountain National Park for a special project geared to conveying the compelling personal message of one of the park's rangers.

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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