RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date:  Monday, March 6, 1989

INCIDENTS

89-33 - Lake Mead - Fatal Shooting by Park Ranger

At approximately 11:30 a.m. on the morning of March 4th, seasonal ranger Bob
Judkins was stopped by a visitor and informed that there was a man on foot
at the intersection of Lakeshore and Northshore Drives who was brandishing a
weapon and pointing it at passing motorists. Judkins called for assistance,
drove to the scene and parked his vehicle across the roadway to block
traffic from approaching the area. At approximately the same time, ranger
Tom Valenta arrived from the opposite direction, and the man with the gun -
later identified as 28-year-old B.E.M. of Jackson Hole, Wyoming -
started walking toward him. Valenta saw a visitor's vehicle pulling up
behind him, so he backed his patrol car toward the visitor, forcing the
visitor to back up out of immediate danger. B.E.M. then turned toward
Judkins, who also backed his vehicle away from B.E.M.. B.E.M. turned once
again and started towards Valenta, who'd backed up about 200' around the
corner of the intersection. Valenta got out of his patrol car with his
shotgun and took a defensive position behind the open door. He ordered
B.E.M. to drop his gun (a 380 mm Luger pistol), but B.E.M. continued to
advance, yelling repeatedly: "I'm not going back to prison!" At one point,
he told Valenta: "I'm going to kill you. You'd better shoot me now because
I'm going to kill you." As he approached, B.E.M. pointed his weapon
directly at Valenta; when he closed to within 20', Valenta fired one round
from his shotgun, striking B.E.M. in the left side just below his chest.
B.E.M. was flown to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where he
died on the operating table. Shortly after the incident, the park received
information via teletype which identified B.E.M. and advised that he and an
accomplice named A.J.P. were wanted for murder and armed robbery in
Wyoming, where the two had killed A.J.P.'s uncle by shooting and stabbing
him. Both were considered to be armed and dangerous. A.J.P. was arrested at
a casino by Las Vegas police later that night. Their vehicle was found in
Barstow, California. (Newt Sikes, CR, LAME).

FIRE ACTIVITY

On Friday, a 1,500-acre wildfire burned into the Guadalupe Mountains from
outside the park. As of the time of the report (4:30 pm MST), about 200
acres had burned within the park. A Type II incident management team was
brought in from the Lincoln National Forest, and a unified NPS/BLM/USFS
command was set up. The fire was being pushed by 40 mph winds, which kept
retardant-dropping aircraft on the ground. Three crews - one of them an NPS
crew from Carlsbad - were on scene. (Cliff Chetwin, SWRO, through BFM,
Boise).

CALENDAR

Asterisks indicate new or revised entries:

March 8 - 11 - 7th Annual EMS Today Conference and Exposition, Town and
Country Hotel, San Diego, California. Sponsored by JEMS. See the magazine
for further information, or contact The Conference Corporation, 619-481.
5267.

** CANCELLED ** March 14 - 16 - 2nd Annual Department of Interior Aircraft
Accident Prevention Seminar, San Diego, California. Open to regional and
park aviation coordinators and safety officers. Contact Butch Farabee, RAD
(FTS 343-4188) or Bob Lewis, QAS (FTS 554-9682).

March 14 - 16 - Operations Evaluation Workshop/Training, Denver, Colorado.

March 14 - 17 - "Issues in Cultural Landscape Management", workshop,
Richmond, Virginia. Sponsored 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 19 - "National Park Research and Management Policy into the Next
Century: The Successor to the Leopold Report", symposium, Omni Shoreham
Hotel, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the National Parks and Conservation
Association (NPCA). Contact Dave Simon, NPCA, 202-944-8530.

** CANCELLED ** The Regional Fire Coordinators Meeting, which was to be
held March 20 - March 24 in Denver, Colorado, has been cancelled. It will
not be rescheduled.

April 3 - 7 - Southwest Region Resource Management Workshop, San Antonio,
Texas. Sponsored by SWRO , but open to all. Contact Deborah Pfenninger,
SWR-ONR, FTS 476-6412 or 505-988-6412.

April 3 - 7 - Midwest Region Chief Rangers' Conference, Pipestone NM,
Minnesota. Contact John Townsend, MWRO, for further information.

April 4 - 6 - "Interpretation in Urban Areas", workshop, Lowell Hilton,
Lowell, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the NPS and local organizations. The
objectives are "to examine the nature and expectations of urban audiences,
techniques necessary to reach these audiences and the particular concerns of
employees in urban areas." For further information, call 617-565-8860. The
registration deadline is February 17th.

April 24 - 28 - Regional Chief Rangers' Conference, El Paso, Texas.
Regional chief rangers' annual meeting, with attention on law enforcement
and resource management issues. Contact Tom Thompson, MWRO, or Reed Jarvis,
PNRO.

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.

May 8 - 12 - North Atlantic Region Chief Rangers' Conference, Cape Cod NS,
Massachusetts.

May 8 - 12* - "Practical Approaches to Riparian Resource Management",
educational workshop, Billings Plaza Holiday Inn, Billings, Montana.
Jointly sponsored by several Federal and state land management agencies.
For further information, contact Andrea Darling at 406-652-5197.

May 18 - 20 - "High-Intensity Fire in Wildlands: Management Challenges and
Options", conference, Ramada Inn North, Tallahassee, Florida. For further

information, contact Tall Timbers Research Stations, Route 1, Box 678,
Tallahassee, FL 32312 (904-893-4153).

May 23 - 26* - "Fire Policy and Strategies in Wilderness and Parks, Past and
Future", symposium, Bozeman, Montana. Sponsored by the NPS and USFS.
Contact Paul Weingart (403-586-8625) or Jim Saveland (912-744-0252).

June 19 - 22* - "Our National Grasslands", forum, Kirkwood Motor Inn,
Bismarck, North Dakota. Topics include review of historical and economic
importance of national grasslands. Keynote speaker will be Dale Robertson,
Chief, US Forest Service. Conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of
national grasslands. Contact Joe Sainas, Forest Service, 1824 N. 11th
Street, Bismark, NC 58501.

July 16 - 20 - "Futureview: The 1990's and Beyond", conference, Sheraton
Washington, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the World Future Society. Among
other topics, conferees will be discussing future biosphere trends and
issues. For further information, write the World Future Society, 4916 St.
Elmo Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301-656-8274).

(Calendar appears in each Monday's morning report. If you know of a
conference, meeting or training session with Servicewide interest and
implications, please provide the specifics to Bill Halainen in Ranger
Activities).

STAFF STATUS

Dabney on leave; Andy Ringgold is acting division chief. Hodapp in Denver
on aircraft and fire policy meetings.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities
FTS 343-4874/4875 or 202-343-4874/4875