RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date:  Monday, April 10, 1989

INCIDENTS

89-59 - Kenai Fjords - Follow-up on Oil Spill

As of late Saturday, the oil was still slightly offshore of Kenai Fjords and
had not made any further advances toward the park. Winds and currents are
currently keeping movement in balance. The oil has come ashore on Cape
Resurrection, Barwell Island, and the Chiswell Islands; it is close to the
shores of Granite and Pye Islands. Boom placement operations were to have
resumed this weekend following the arrival of 6,500' of boom late on Friday.
Boats will work on booming streams in lower Kenai Fjords and outside the
south end of the park. Another 5,000' of boom is being reserved for the
Resurrection River in Seward. A Navy open-water oil skimmer was put into
action near the mouth of Resurrection Bay on Saturday. One intelligence-
gathering crew has returned from the Nuka Point area, and a second has
departed to work in the southern portion of the park below James Creek. A
float plane is patrolling existing boom sites. The incident command team
and Alaska Regional Office now have 122 people working on the spill. (Boyd
Evison, Regional Director, ARO, and John Quinley, Public Affairs, ARO).

89-66 - Yosemite - Climbing Fatality

At 6:30 pm on the 7th, a park visitor found the body of 21-year-old J.L.
of Longford Bottoms, England, at the bottom of a cliff in the
vicinity of Mirror Lake and the base of Half Dome. Investigation revealed
that J.L. had arrived in the park with a tour group that morning, and that
he had rented a bicycle, ridden it to the Mirror Lake area, then gone hiking
on the Mirror Lake loop trail. J.L. apparently attempted to solo climb
the cliff bands below Half Dome and fell to his death. No climbing
equipment was found in the area where the body was recovered. (Roger
Rudolph, CR, YOSE, in message to RAD/WRO and RAD/WASO).

FIRE ACTIVITY

No reports.

OFFICE NOTES

1) Herb Cables, Regional Director of North Atlantic Region, has been
selected as the Deputy Director of the NPS. Jack Morehead, Superintendent
of Yosemite, has been selected as the Associate Director, Operations.

CALENDAR

Asterisks indicate new or revised entries:

April 10 - 14 - SCA Wilderness Work Skills Program, Pinnacles NM,
California. Sponsored by Student Conservation Association. Field
instruction and hands-on training in rustic timber construction, trail
survey and design, knots splices and rigging, building with rock, trail
reconstruction, cross cut saw sharpening, and traditional skills for
resource management. Cost is $325, which covers instruction, food and
lodging, with 15% discount for groups of three or more registering together.
Contact Missi Booth Goss, Program Director, SCA Northwest, 206-547-7380.

April 12 - "A Million Square Miles: A Public Lands Agenda for the 1990'sn,
conference, Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by
the Wilderness Society.

April 24 - 28 - Regional Chief Rangers' Training Session, El Paso, Texas.
Training session focusing on law enforcement (particularly drug interdiction
and enforcement) and resource protection issues. Contact Tom Thompson,
MWRO, or Reed Jarvis, PNRO.

April 29 - "After Columbus: Encounters in North America", forum, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. Focus on the 1992 quincentennial of Columbus'
landing in the Americas. Contact Lisa Falk at 202-357-1639.

May 2 - 4 - Mid-Atlantic Region Chief Rangers* Conference, Oglebay, West
Virginia. Contact Chris Andress, FTS 597-5348.

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 5 - 15 - Western Region Chief Rangers' Training Workshop, Clarion Hotel,
San Diego, California.

May 8 - 12 - Resource Threats Workshop, Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado. The
workshop will focus on the National Environmental Policy Act, but will
include other legislation that can be used to influence federal, federally-
licensed or private undertakings that potentially impact NPS resources.
Contact Frank Buono, Albright (602-638-2691) or Jake Hoogland, Environmental
Compliance, WASO (FTS 343-2163).

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).

May 31 - June 5* - WASO/Regional Chiefs of Interpretation Workshop,
Yellowstone, Wyoming. Topics will include Servicewide interpretation and
education and Yellowstone fire interpretation for the summer of 1989.
Contact Mike Watson, Interpretation, WASO, for further information.

June 19 - 22 - "Cur 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.

(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

Halainen out of office on RFP evaluation panel through Thursday, Healy at
meeting in Boston, Ringgold and Farabee on annual leave, Butts on travel.
Steve Hodapp is the acting chief, Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection.

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