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September 98 Vol THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PEOPLE LAND &WATERWATER September 98 Vol. 5, No. 7 IN THE WORKPLACE Calling All Counters: Interior employees may take temporary, part-time jobs with Census Bureau for the Year 2000 tally. 10 Unsung Heroes: A new Department-wide recognition program targets Interior standouts who work behind the scenes. 2 Workforce Diversity: Rating managers’ diversity efforts. 4 Touch screen technology reaches out to minority students. 6 The Millennial Bug: Bureau of Indian Affairs information technology team gets a visit from Y2K evaluator. 31 Tomorrow’s Leaders: Reclamation prepares a younger generation for policy, management roles. 24 SCIENCE & STEWARDSHIP Learning from Success: Environmental conference looks for reports, papers, presentations on Interior success stories. 4 Hidden Treasure: Remote Navassa island contains a wealth of biological resources, an Office of Insular Affairs survey discovers. 30 Restoring Cutthroat: Jicarilla pact will restore threatened Rio Grande trout to native habitat in Chama River Basin. 22 Pesticides in the Parks: Shenandoah National Park negotiates pact with concessionaire to cut use of chemical pesticides. 6 WORKING WITH AMERICA No More Gobbledygook: Plain Language movement and new laws make federal agencies speak to America in plain English. 11 Science for Schools: Curricula, teachers’ guides, and other resources free from agencies. 11-14 It’s All Relative: Indian Gift Shop marks 60th year with focus on the continuity of Native American family craft traditions. 5 Lake Recreation: President Clinton names commissioners to national study to expand public recreation at federal lakes. 8 Creating Heritage Rivers: Willamette, Rio Grande, Mississippi, Hudson, Potomac, and New among 14 to receive federal assistance. 10 Diversity INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Beguiled by Cocospera: Interior team works with 4, 6, 11, 13 Mexican counterparts to save 17th century church. 7 Russia Revisited: MMS scientist visits the new Russia and discovers an old truth. 28 THE INSIDE LINE Interior People . 2-3 Around the Department . 4-5 Science & Stewardship . 6-7 Working with America . 8-11 U.S. Geological Survey . 12-14 Office of Surface Mining . 15 Nation Petroleum Reserve . 16-17 National Park Service . 18-19 Fish and Wildlife Service . 20-21 Bureau of Indian Affairs . 22-23 Bureau of Reclamation . 24-25 Don’t Leave the Bureau of Land Management . 26-27 Minerals Management Service . 28-29 Office Without it! Office of Insular Affairs . 30 32 The Millennial Bug . 31 All-Purpose Credit Card . 32 Interior People: Honoring Those Who Serve In Memory of a Friend In Search of Unsung Heroes Do you know someone whose behind-the- scenes contributions really helped to put a big project over the top? How about someone who is consistently unselfish with his/her time and expertise, always willing to lend a helping hand? They may have gone the extra mile and performed above and beyond normal job duties? Extraordinarily dependable and dedicated? Or provided outstanding service to customers within or outside the Department? If you do know an Interior employee with some or all of those qualities and abilities, why not nominate the person for the Unsung Hero Award. To celebrate the A U.S. Geological Survey employee and his climbing partners flew the Department’s upcoming 150th anni- USGS flag from the summit of Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina, on January versary, John Berry, the assistant 16 in memory of their friend and colleague—John Webster. The flag secretary for Policy, Management and belonged to Webster, a USGS Alaska Branch geologist and avid Budget, has developed the new award mountaineer who died accidentally in 1984 while conducting geologic program to recognize these valuable mapping activities in Alaska. At left is Dr. Robert Kayen, a research employees. civil engineer with the Coastal and Marine Geology program at Menlo Park, California. On the right is Dr. Ken Ward, an engineer with Hewlett Nominations, which should describe one Packard Corporation in Corvallis, Oregon. The photograph was taken or more of the qualities, abilities, or by Dr. John Leibeskind, who also is with Hewlett Packard. The accomplishments described above, may mountaineers reached the peak, which is 22,840 feet or 6,959 meters be submitted for any Departmental high, on the seventh day of climbing. Mt. Aconcagua is the highest peak employee by any employee or a group of agency’s Departmental Unsung Hero, who will receive in the western hemisphere. employees, at anytime through $1,849 at the 150 Anniversary Convocation scheduled appropriate bureau and office channels. for March 3, 1999. Dennis Tayman, a Nominations should include a one-page citation, geophysicist with the describing the nominee’s contribution in detail. For more information concerning the Unsung Hero Minerals Management Award, contact your servicing personnel office, or Service, traded in his Bureaus and offices will conduct employee panels to Beverly Wilson at (703) 787-1432. Or email her at pick and log for hammer evaluate and select their nominees. Those selected will <[email protected]> Don’t miss this opportunity and nails when he receive $150 and be eligible for consideration for their to recognize your colleagues for this award. helped a Habitat for Humanity project as part of a men’s MEMORIAL FUND FOR RANGER’S CHILDREN ministries group from As the investigation into the murder of NPS Ranger Joseph David Kolodski continued, The Church on the Way the state attorney general weighed evidence to decide whether to seek the death penalty in Van Nuys, for the man charged with the crime—Jeremiah Locust, 47, of Cherokee, North Carolina. California. 26 Kolodski, 36, was shot June 21 by a rifle-toting man who had earlier been reported threatening visitors along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Kolodski was the first officer to respond to the call for police assistance. Kolodshi’s ashes were spread in Great Smoky Mountains National Park during a private ceremony in early August. He is survived by his wife, also an employee at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and three young children. A memorial fund has been established for Kolodski’s three children and more than $40,000 has been donated thus far. Cards and/or donations may be sent to the family in care of Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains National Rudolfo de Castillo Park, 130 West Bruce Street, Suite #1, Sevierville, TN 37862. Those wishing to make contributions should make helps to restore a out their checks to “Friends of the Smokies” and specify that it is in memory of Joseph Kolodski. doorway arch of a 17th century church in Sonora, Mexico, 7 as assistant to the Secretary, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources from 1983-88, administering the Groat Tapped for USGS Coastal Zone Management Program and Coastal Dr. Charles Groat, a distinguished earth science Protection Program. researcher and administrator, has been nominated by KUDOS President Clinton to head the U.S. Geological Survey. From 1978-1990, Dr. Groat held positions at Louisiana Groat, 58, has 25 years of experience in geological State University and the Louisiana Department of studies, energy and minerals resource Natural Resources which included assessment, ground-water protection, serving as professor for the Department geomorphic processes and landform of Geology and Geophysics, and as evolution in desert areas, and coastal director and State Geologist for the studies. Louisiana Geological Survey. He also served as associate professor (1976-78) “Dr. Groat has a fine scientific mind,” at the University of Texas at Austin, in Secretary Babbitt said in lauding Groat’s the Department of Geological Sciences, nomination, “and he will bring the and as associate director and acting Department an impressive array of director of the Bureau of Economic management, research, and scientific Geology. Anderson, 27 advocacy skills that will make him an Socks, 31 Shepherd, 18 invaluable asset and serve all Americans Among his professional affiliations, well.” Groat currently is associate vice Groat is a member of the Geological president for Research and Sponsored Society of America, American Projects at the Center for Environmental Association for the Advancement of Resource Management, University of Texas Dr. Charles Groat Science, American Geophysical Union, at El Paso. He previously served as director and the American Association of of the center and also was director of the university’s Petroleum Geologist. He has authored and contributed Environmental Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program. to numerous publications and articles on major issues involving earth resources and the environment. Before joining the University of Texas, Dr. Groat served Originally from Westfield, New York, Groat received an as executive director at the Center for Coastal, Energy, A.B. degree in geology from the University of Rochester and Environmental Resources, at Louisiana State in 1962, M.S. from the University of Massachusetts in Ewing, 15 University, from 1991-95. He was executive director for 1967, and Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Texas at Cheek, 11 Banks, 24 the American Geological Institute (1990-92), and served Austin. He is married and has two children. 2 PEOPLE, LAND & WATER ( SEPTEMBER 1998 Flight to Freedom – A Mural Frank Quimby She defected in Athens, under the shadow of the Acropolis, a classic work of pagan art and universal symbol of the birthplace of democracy. It may have been fitting for an artist seeking freedom of expression, but it wasn’t typical. In 1984 when Edita Nazaraite boldly walked up to Greek police and asked for political asylum, the typical defector from the Soviet Union was not a female book illustrator from Lithuania. Even Red Cross officials warned her that her application wasn’t strong—there was no persecution, she hadn’t been beaten or jailed. But she had thought about it for years; knew what freedom meant to her as an artist; and would not be dissuaded, even when Soviet officials used UN intermediaries to cajole her back.
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