- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Tuesday, January 31, 1989
- Date: Tues, 31 Jan 1989
RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
MORNING REPORT
Attention: Directorate
Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
CC: RAD Information Net
Day/date: Tuesday, January 31, 1989
INCIDENTS
No incidents reported.
FIELD REPORTS
The Associated Press reports this morning that a devastating fungus disease
has killed about 75% of native dogwood seedlings at a test site in the
Catoctin Mountains. All the seedlings are expected to die by the end of
this year. A Department of Agriculture researcher at the site says that no
North American flowering dogwood trees of the species Cornus florida are
known to resist the disease, known as dogwood anthracnose, and there is
concern that the disease may become a national epidemic. The fungus that
causes dogwood anthracnose has not been precisely identified, but appears to
depend on wind and water to spread from tree to tree.
OFFICE NOTES
1) The Washington Post reports this morning that U.S. District Court Judge
Harold H. Greene has blocked random drug testing at the Department of
Interior by granting an injunction sought by the National Federation of
Federal Employees and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 17,000
Interior workers. The drug testing program was to have begun today. A
spokesman for the Justice Department said federal attorneys had not read
Greene's ruling and it was too early to speculate on appeals.
2) Walt will be attending oversight hearings on last summer's fires with the
Director and Deputy Director at 10 a.m. today. The hearings are being held
before the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on National
Parks and Public Lands and the Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on
Forest, Family Farms and Energy.
3) Andy and Major Healey will be traveling to Delaware State Police
headquarters in Wilmington today to look at the state's automated reporting
system, which may be used as a model for the DOI criminal incident reporting
system. The Department will be developing such a system to meet the
requirements of the new National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
STAFF STATUS
Dabney and Hodapp at hearings; Ringgold and Healey in Delaware; Loach at
Marana; Belli at Mather.
Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities