Highlights for July 25, 2002

I.Key Department/Bureau News

• USGS Scientist to assist with NPS Natural Resources Data Management Workshop. Karl Brown, CBI manager for the USGS/NPS Vegetation Mapping Program will present Vegetation Inventory concepts on Wednesday, Aug. 7 on the third day of this 5-day training session in Fort Collins, Colorado. The National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring personnel from many parks and monuments will be in attendance. The session will include a GIS interactive exercise demonstrating the depth of the data sets obtained through the Vegetation Mapping Program. The Center for Biological Informatics along with the NPS manages the program; see the program website at: http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/index.html. (Karl Brown, Denver, 303/202-4240).

II.Management Reform
Nothing to report this week.

III. Notable Congressional Activity
Nothing to report this week.

III.Press/Media Inquiries
Nothing to report this week.

V. Key FOIA Requests
Nothing to report this week.