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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office Day/Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 INCIDENTS 01-644 - Organ Pipe Cactus (AZ) - Drug Seizure During an interagency drug operation on the night of December 15th, a ranger found drug backpacker footprints leading north onto BLM lands. Another ranger with night vision equipment on board a helicopter spotted about ten backpackers three miles to his north. Three of them were captured and arrested two hours later with assistance from the Border Patrol and Customs. Two more were arrested six hours later. Rangers and officers seized 388 pounds of marijuana, bringing the total amount seized by rangers this year to 13,127 pounds - a 27 percent increase in seizure amounts from the previous twelve-month period, a 77 percent increase from the 1999 total, and a 243 percent increase over the 1998 total. [Dale Thompson, CR, ORPI, 12/19] 01-645 - Independence NHP (PA) - Breaking and Entering Rangers responded to a report of breaking and entering at Christ Church just before 9 a.m. on December 20th. Although the church is not owned by the NPS, the park provides protection services through a memorandum of understanding. The church was entered and exited via a first floor window sometime around 7 p.m. the previous evening. According to church employees, nothing was taken or disturbed except for the alarm key pad attached to the interior wall. There are no suspects, but the investigating is continuing. [Jacquelyn Bryant, PR, INDE, 12/20] PARKS AND PEOPLE US Park Police (NCR) - Teresa Chambers, currently the chief of police for the nearly 600-person Durham Police Department in Durham, North Carolina, has been named the new chief of the United States Park Police. The appointment marks the first time that a woman has held the position as chief of the Park Police. Chambers has been chief of Durham PD since January, 1998. Prior to that, she worked for 21 years in the Prince George County PD in Maryland, beginning as a police cadet in 1976 and rising to the rank of major in 1993. Chambers holds a masters degree in applied behavioral science from Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. She also has a BS in law enforcement from the University of Maryland, and has completed the FBI's National Executive Institute and National Academy. [Public Affairs, WASO] Saguaro NP (AZ) - The park is seeking someone for a 90-day detail assignment or temporary promotion to serve as acting GS-12 chief ranger from around mid-January to mid-April. The chief ranger is responsible for the full range of visitor and resource protection activities, including law enforcement, resource protection, search and rescue, emergency medical services, wildland and structural fire, horse patrol operations, wilderness management, fee management and special park uses. This temporary assignment will occur during the park's busy visitor use season. To be eligible for the temporary promotion, an applicant must meet the minimum qualifications for this position and have one year time-in-grade at the GS-11 level. The park will cover travel, limited per diem, and lodging expenses; the difference in pay rate will be provided for a temporary promotion eligible, if applicable. The appointee will also be eligible to apply for the permanent vacancy. Nominations must be postmarked no later than January 4th. Send a letter of interest, current resume or OF-612 and a current SF-50 to Human Resources, Saguaro NP, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail, Tucson, AZ 85730. Please contact acting superintendent Jim Bellamy at 520-733-5101 for more information. (Paula Nasiatka, CR, SAGU, 12/18] National Capital Region (DC/MD/VA/WV) - The region presently has multiple vacancies for protection rangers in parks in close proximity to one another in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They are seeking rangers interested in lateral transfers to fill these permanent GS-025-5/7/9 positions. Opportunities for dual career couples are good. Although close to Washington, there are still great opportunities for those interested in the full range of ranger duties. Operations include natural and cultural resources law enforcement, poaching task forces, road patrol, horse and mountain bike operations, backcountry management, boundary management, VIP security and anti-terrorism, EMS, SAR, swiftwater rescue, cave and high angle technical rescue, wildland fire management, structural fire prevention, special park uses, and recreation fees. The NCR Communications Center provides comprehensive 24-hour dispatch to all its rangers as well as a toll-free 800 emergency reporting and resource crime hotline number. If you would like information on present and future vacancies, please contact Einar Olsen, regional chief ranger, via email or at 202-619-7068. (Einar Olsen, RCR, NCRO, 12/20) Santa Monica Mountains NRA (CA) - Retired park ranger CQ Gatson passed away on the morning of Monday, December 17th, in Thousand Oaks, California. CQ's career with the park service began in 1981 at Big Thicket NP, where she served as a seasonal park technician. From there, she went on to ranger positions at Joshua Tree NP and Lake Mead NRA. In 1990, she joined the staff at Cabrillo NM as a supervisory park ranger, then moved on to Santa Monica Mountains NRA as an interpretive ranger, where she retired in 2000. CQ was an interpretive curriculum instructor and coordinator and an interpretive skills certifier. In 1999, she received the Department of Interior's superior service award for her work in interpretation and was named "Woman of the Year" by the Tres Condados Council of the Girls Scouts of America for her longstanding work with girl scouts in southern California. CQ had a radiant personality and unlimited enthusiasm and optimism for life and the work of the service. She is survived by two brothers, Mel and Milton. Condolences may be sent to Mel Gatson at 375 Burton Mesa Blvd., #J, Lompoc, California, 93436. Funeral services will be on Thursday, December 27th, at the Second Baptist Church in Riverside, California. The viewing will begin at 10 a.m. and the memorial service will be at 11 a.m. The church is located at 2911 9th Street at the corner of 9th and Park Avenue. If you would like to send flowers to the Gatson family, please send them to Tillman Riverside Mortuary, 2874 10th Street, Riverside CA 93437. [Woody Smeck/Amy Yee, SAMO, 12/20] * * * * * Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA. --- ### --- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WEB SITE DIRECTORY The Morning Report periodically runs a listing of Worldwide Web sites of use to NPS employees in the course of their work. Please send along entries - and corrections, in case of address errors - to the editor. All new entries are marked with asterisks (*); all revised/corrected entries are marked with pound signs (#). NPS SITES
NPS directory http://165.83.219.72/npsdirectory
Congressional Affairs office http://www.nps.gov/legal
Training and Development office http://www.nps.gov/training
NPS Web page development info http://www.nps.gov/helpdesk
Current VIP opportunities http://www.nps.gov/volunteer
Press releases, park news, more http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/pressrm.htm
Q&A with volunteer NPS historians http://www.nps.gov/crweb1/history/askhist.htm
Geologists-in-Parks program http://www.aqd.nps.gov/natnet/grd/geojob/ geojob.htm
Harpers Ferry wayside exhibits http://www.nps.gov/waysite
NPS safety info http://www.nps.gov/riskmgmt
NCR Museum Resource Center http://www.nps.gov/mrc
National Center for Preservation
Technology and Training http://www.ncptt.nps.gov
NPS training opportunities http://www.nps.gov/training
NPS strategic plan http://www.nps.gov - InfoZone, Park Planning
NPS intake training program http://www.nps.gov/intake
U.S. Park Police http://www.doi.gov/u.s.park.police/
NPS organization charts http://www.nps.gov/refdesk/Refdesk.htm
Fire Management Program Center http://www.nps.gov/fire/
Public Health Service office http://www.nps.gov/public_health/
Nat. Reg. for Historic Places http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrhome.htm
Employee safety/lost time stats http://www.nps.gov/htdocs1/riskmgmt/GPRAIVa6no.htm
Visitor safety stats http://www.nps.gov/htdocs1/riskmgmt/GPvistrdays.htm
GPRA http://amoeba.nps.gov/amoeba/nps.pmds.nsf
Denver Service Center info http://amoeba.nps.gov/amoeba.nsf
Harpers Ferry Center info http://www.hfc.nps.gov
http://www.nps.gov/hfc
Submerged Cultural Resource Unit http://www.nps.gov/scru/home.htm
NPS Morning Report http://www.nps.gov/morningreport
CIRS/NPS LE program http://www.cirs.nps.gov
Sustainable practices/info http://www.nps.gov/sustain/
NPS NEPA guidelines http://www.nps.gov/planning/nepa
"Mission 66" information http://palladio.arch.virginia.edu/~clm2c
NPS boundary handbook http://buford.dewa.nps.gov/npsgps/Boundary_Handbook/index.html
Historic preservation info http://www2.cr.nps.gov/e-rehab
Fee demo program info http://www.nps.gov/feedemo/
Facility Management Division http://165.83.218.50
Parks as Classrooms http://www.nps.gov/interp/parkclass.html
NPS-NASA intrepretive info http://www.nps.gov/interp/nasa
HFC Division of Conservation http://www.nps.gov/hfc/conservation/
Museum Management program http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd
NPS graphics http://165.83.216.48/storage
NPS interpretive competencies http://www.nps.gov/idp/interp
Cultural resources diversity http://www2.cr.nps.gov/diversity
Rivers and Trails http://www.ncrc.nps.gov/rtca
National Heritage Areas http://www.ncrc.nps.gov/heritage
NPS Y2K project http://y2k.itc.nps.gov
NPS forms of all kinds http://www.nps.gov/renew/forms.htm
Wild & scenic rivers http://www.nps.gov/rivers
DOI SITES
DOI address directory http://www.doi.gov/cgi-bin/mailsrch
DOI IG reports http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/ig.html
DOI payroll, Denver http://www.dasc.doi.gov
DOI recreation lakes commission http://www.doi.gov/nrls
DOI Y2K microchip hazards http://www.mrps.doi.gov/y2kchips.htm
DOI Office of Aircraft Services http://www.oas.gov
DOI narrowband radio info http://www.doi.gov/oirm/cont/datacomm.html
DOI diversity issues http://www.doi.gov/diversity/
DOI safety http://safetynet.smis.doi.gov
OTHER AGENCY SITES
Comptroller General decisions http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gaocd.html
GAO reports http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gao.html
OPM jobs listings http://www.usajobs.opm.gov
USDA graduate school http://www.grad.usda.gov
Thrift Savings Plan http://www.tsp.gov
OPM locality pay rates http://www.opm.gov/pay/index.htm
CFR and Federal Register info http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection http://www.ftc.gov
IG networks http://www.ignet.gov/ignet
Fed Employees News Digest http://www.fedforce.com/fedforce/fedforce.html
National registry for EMTs http://www.nremt.org
Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov
Hantavirus information http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/index.htm
Excess military equipment http://www.drms.dla.mil
Federal recreation areas http://www.recreation.gov
DOJ land appraisal standards http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/land-ack
USGS digital and map data http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/glis.html
USGS maps in progress http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/data.html
Government forms http://www.gsa.gov/forms
EPA environmental info http://www.epa.gov/ceis
Historic NPS maps http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/nphome.html
Directory/access to Fed sites http://fedgate.org
CONGRESSIONAL SITES
All Senate offices, committees http://www.senate.gov
All House offices, committees http://www.house.gov
Bills, reports, related info http://thomas.loc.gov
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT SITES
Wildland fire information http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire
National Interagency Fire Center http://www.nifc.gov
NIFC fire situation reports http://www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.html
National Wildfire Coord. Group http:/www.nwcg.gov
NPS fire situation reports http://nifc.nps.gov/sacs (under INFO RES)
NPS fire training http://www.nifc.nps.gov/mats/matsframe.asp
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SITES
Exotic invasive species http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien
Native plants http://www.nps.gov/plants
Malformed amphibians reports http://www.npwrc.org/narcam
Mineral developments near parks http://www.aqd.nps.gov/facts/fadjacen.htm
Vegetation/soils planting info http://plants.usda.gov
"Park Science" magazine http://www.aqd.nps.gov/nrid/parksci/
"Natural Resource Year in Review" http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yr_rvw96/
Natural resource pubs list http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/
NR fact sheets http://www.aqd.nps.gov/facts/findex.htm
National GIS/data clearinghouse http://www.nps.gov/gis/index.html
Plant/wildlife toxicity data http://www.epa.gov/ecotox/
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov
INVENTORY AND MONITORING SITES
I&M brochure http://www1.nature.nps.gov/im/contents.htm
NR monitoring in NP's http://www1.nature.nps.gov/sfancy
I&M annual reports http://www1.nature.nps.gov/im/annrpts.htm
I&M contract information http://www1.nature.nps.gov/im/contact.htm
Vegetation mapping program http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/index.html
Geologic bibliography http://165.83.36.151/biblios/geobib.nsf
Natural resource bibliography http://165.83.36.151/biblios/nrbib.nsf
Dataset catalog http://165.83.36.151/parksvc/dcat.nsf
WILDERNESS/BACKCOUNTRY MANAGEMENT SITES
Arthur Carhart training center http://www.wilderness.net/carhart
Aldo Leopold institute http://www.wilderness.net/leopold
Leave No Trace program http://www.lnt.org
Wilderness-related links http://www.forestry.umt.edu/people/borrie/wilderness/
Wilderness Information Network http://wilderness.net
LEGAL SITES
United States Code http://law.house.gov/usc.htm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
Code of Federal Regulations http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
Federal Register http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/#fr
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
Federal Acquisition Regulations http://www.gsa.gov/far/current/html/toc.html
Executive Orders http://www.arnet.gov/References/References.html
OMB Circulars http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OMB/
Supreme Court cases http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct
Federal Circuit cases http://www.law.emory.edu/fedcircuit/
http://www.gao.gov/decisions/decision.htm
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html
FLRA cases http://www.flra.gov/inex.html
MSPB cases http://www.access.gpo.gov/mspb
FLETC legal updates http://www.ustreas.gov/fletc/legal.htm
Environmental law http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/envlaw.html
Ethics issues http://www.usoge.gov/
Federal laws in general http://www.fedworld.gov
http://fedlaw.gsa.gov
ARPA/NAGPRA laws http://www.nmia.com/~quasho/
Info on legal issues http://www.Lawcheck.com/main.html
Laws, court rulings, related info http://www.findlaw.com
Court cases, codes, regs, etc. http://www.are.uscourts.gov/sites.htm
Glossary of legal terms http://www.courttv.com/legalterms/glossary.html
Environmental law http://www.cnie.org
ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION SITES
Environmental contract fraud info http://www.afce.org
http://www.fraud.org
Info on militia groups, etc. http://www.splcenter.org
Law enforcement newsletter http://www.2calibrepress.com
OTHER RELEVANT SITES
NPS cooperating associations http://www.nps.gov/coop/index.htm
National Park Foundation http://www.nationalparks.org
Student Conservation Association http://www.sca-inc.org
George Wright Society http://www.portup.com/~gws/home.html
GWS park-related links http://www.portup.com/~gws/gwsnet.html
National Center for Accessibility http://www.indiana.edu/~nca
Recycled content procurement http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/procure.htm
http://www.metrokc.gov/oppis/recyclea.html
http://www.pnl.gov/esp/greenguidefcn.state.fl.us/bpsr/drc_notice.html
Telephone directory searches http://www.pc411.com
Computer virus myths http://kumite.com/myths/
Zip codes http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
US Park Ranger FOP site http://home.earthlink.net/~bikeranger/
Travel maps http://www.mapsonus.com
Travel planning http://www.bts.gov/virtualib
Federal travel regs http://policyworks.gov/ftr
State tax exempt rules http://policyworks.gov/travel
Facts on File information http://www.factsonfile.com
LE/firefighter retirement http://fire.blm.gov/retire
Atomic clock time set info http://www.bldrdoc.nist.gov/doc-tour/atomic_clock.html
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefrequency/javaclck (for Java browsers)
Assoc of National Park Rangers http://www.anpr.org
Flag protocol info http://www.libertynet.org/iha/betsy
http://www.halfstaff.com
http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/flagprot/html/othflags.html
Satellite land images http://www.terraserver.com
BSA-made uniform hat presses http://www.troop17.org/hatpress.htm
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