Newsgroups: bit.listserv.biosph-l
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:06:43 EST
Reply-To:     "Norman C. Saunders" <NYS@NIHCU.BITNET>
From:         "Norman C. Saunders" <NYS@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      F&WS, NPS Exchange Employees

Fish and Wildlife Service
For Release: October 29, 1992


Hugh Vickery 202-208-5634


         U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service
                   Announce Employee Exchange Program


     A new  employee exchange program between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and  the National  Park Service was announced today by Assistant
Secretary of  the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Mike Hayden.
The vanguard program is aimed at sharing the strengths of the two sister
agencies.   More than  100 employees across the country will participate
in the initial exchange, which has already begun.

     "This program  is  consistent  with  the  President's  policies  of
strengthening the  management of  government programs and increasing ef-
ficiency," Hayden  said.  "Employees of each of these agencies can learn
much from  each other.  The Fish and Wildlife Service is without a doubt
the world's finest scientific organization dealing with wildlife and its
habitat while  the Park  Service is  unmatched when it comes to managing
natural and  cultural resources  for the  enjoyment and education of the
public."

     A primary  goal of  the exchange  is to  help the Fish and Wildlife
Service improve  interpretation programs  for the  public on its 485 Na-
tional Wildlife Refuges and 78 National Fish Hatcheries.

     At the  same time, the exchange will help the Park Service with the
scientific management  of its  living natural resources at the 365 units
of the National Park Service.

     "Public support for wildlife conservation is critical to the future
of our  mission--we simply  must get  people  excited  about  conserving
wildlife," said  Fish and  Wildlife Service  Director John Turner.  "The
exchange will help us become a more people-oriented agency, as well as a
wildlife-managing agency."

     National Park  Service Director  James Ridenour said, "It is impor-
tant for  the Park  Service to improve its scientific base and deal with
the ever-increasing  pressure on the natural resources within our Parks,
including growing numbers of visitors.

     "Fish and  Wildlife Service  biologists will  provide our employees
invaluable insight into the science needed to keep the parks healthy and
vital into the 21st Century," Ridenour said.

     The length of the exchanges will be up to one year.

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