Daily Headlines Home NPS News In the Press Incidents Fire News People News Jobs Training Events Calendar InfoZone About the NPS Addresses Information Resources Opportunities Park Information Programs/Initiatives Reports Morning Report ParkTips NLC Journal   FREDERICKSBURG & SPOTSYLVANIA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK - VA Deal Concluded To Protect Key Section of Battlefield (11.10.2004) The Free Lance-Star - A corporation will sell 140 acres of land that saw fierce fighting on the first day at Chancellorsville to the Civil War Preservation Trust. GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - AZ Grand Canyon May Be Flooded Later This Month (11.09.2004) The Associated Press - The Bureau of Reclamation wants to release extra water from Glen Canyon Dam beginning Nov. 21. If approved, the extra flow would run for 90 hours, stirring up an estimated 800,000 metric tons of sediment. NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM ADVISORY BOARD Advisory Group Says Park Service Needs Better Science (11.04.2004) Government Executive - A new report calls on the National Park Service to commit more resources to science, including reinstating an in-house team of researchers to monitor park management and ecology. PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT - CA Pinnacles' First Female Condor Flies Free (11.01.2004) The Monterey Herald - With the release of the female condor, the park's population of free-flying condors became coed. SAN JUAN NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE - PR Puerto Rico's Old Capital Gets Facelift (10.29.2004) The Associated Press - "(The) National Park Service, which oversees the El Morro fort and its adjoining walls, is scrambling to save the historic ramparts by redirecting traffic away from a fragile section and reinforcing the road to prevent vibrations." National Park Service | Department of the Interior | FirstGov