RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date:  Tuesday, January 3, 1989

INCIDENTS

88-285 - Death Valley - Theft of Government Property

Between 7 p.m. on December 27th and 7 a.m. on the 28th, three campground
vault safes were broken into and a total of $1,500 was stolen. Rangers and
deputies from the Inyo County Sheriff's Office are investigating.

88-286 - Colonial - Sewage Spill

A 36-inch sewage main in Williamsburg, Virginia, broke on December 30th,
spilling raw sewage into the James River at a rate estimated at 100,000
gallons per hour. Although the spill site was downstream from the park,
tides carried some sewage onto the river's beaches along Colonial Parkway.
The regional pollution control officer for the Virginia Water Quality
Control Board was called in, and all pumps were shut down until the leak
could be repaired. A dike was constructed to protect a riparian marsh
located along the parkway. The state is presently monitoring water quality
and working to determine the cause of the break.

OFFICE NOTES

1) Captain Earl Hill and Captain Donald Russell, the regional law
enforcement specialists in Southwest and Southeast Regions, have retired.
The positions will be advertised in the near future.

CALENDAR

Asterisks indicate new or revised entries:

January 9 - 11* - "Effects of Forest Fire Smoke on Firefighters", workshop,
San Diego, California. The session, which is being sponsored by Johns
Hopkins University, will be a working session involving a multi-disciplinary
group of scientists, medical personnel, fire incident command personnel and
representatives of firefighting organizations; the objective will be to
describe and document current knowledge about smoke and its effects on human
health. Contact Darold E. Ward, NWCG, US Forest Service Intermountain
Research Station, Missoula, MT (406-329-4866).

February 13 - 17 - Regional Fire Coordinators Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
Servicewide. The focus of the meeting will be a discussion of the final
definition of FIREPRO III and common themes surfacing from the 1988 season
fire reviews. Contact Mark Forbes, PNRO.

February 20 - 25 - Eighth International Bear Conference, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada.

February 21 - "Deer Management in the Urban Setting", workshop, Perm State
University, Media, Pennsylvania. $135. Call 215-565-8272 for further
information.

February 22 - 25 - "Mountain Management - Mountains, People and
Environments: Conflicts or Challenges", conference, Red Lion Inn - Columbia
River, Jantzen Beach, Oregon. The conference is sponsored by the USPS, NPS
and RET. Registration costs $100 for the session or $40/day. One meal/day
is included in the fee. Additional information and registration forms can
be obtained from: Giffird Pinchot National Forest, ATTN: Wayne A. Parsons,
6926 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., PO Box 8944, Vancouver, WA 98668-8944.

March 13 - 17 - Regional Chief Rangers* Conference, El Paso, Texas
(tentative). Regional chief rangers' annual meeting, with attention on law
enforcement and resource management issues. Contact Tom Thompson, MWRO, or
Reed Jarvis, PNRO.

March 14 - 17 - "Issues in Cultural Landscape Management", workshop,
Richmond, Virginia. Sponsered by MAR but open to all. Contact Kathy Jope,
FTS 597-5372, or Reed Engle, FTS 597-5028.

March 17 - 22 - North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference,
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

March 20 - 24 - Regional Fire Coordinators Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Servicewide. The meeting will focus on revisions to NPS-18 directions
resulting from the Secretarial policy review teams. Contact Jim Reilly,
RMRO.

May 7 - 9 - Northeastern Fish and Wildlife Conference, Ellenville, New York.
Contact Frank Panck, Department of Environmental Conservation, State
University of New York, Building 40, Stony Brook, New York 11790.

(If you know of a conference or meeting with Servicewide interest and
implications, please provide the specifics to either Bill Halainen or Jon
Anglin in Ranger Activities).

STAFF STATUS

All hands on board.