RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Tuesday, May 8, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-95 - Acadia (Maine) - Follow-up on 1987 Homicide

On September 13, 1989, D.L. was sentenced to 50 years in prison for
murdering his wife by pushing her off Otter Cliffs in order to collect a
$400,000 life insurance policy he'd recently taken out on her. D.L. is
now appealing his murder conviction, arguing that the prosecutor failed to
prove that the body found at the base of the cliff was his wife's. Oral
arguments on the appeal may begin in June. D.L.'s wife, K., 26, died
in an 80-foot fall from Otter Cliffs on October 11, 1987, four weeks after
she married D.L. and just seven weeks after she first met him. D.L.'s
first wife, L.R.L., vanished in 1975 in Montana. D.L.
told authorities at that time that he was the only witness as she was washed
down Prickly Pear Creek, some 50 miles south of D.L.'s hometown of Great
Falls. He was never charged in that death. (Dirk Beveridge, Associated
Press, 5/6/90).

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Contain

FL     NPS/FL    Everglades NP     DOF 291                  10,458  Yes
       FL        State land        Krome                    25,000  Yes

CA     CA        State land       *Desert                      850+ Yes

NOTES:

- Fires - Asterisk indicates newly reported fire.
- Contain - Containment dates are estimates; "none" means no
  estimate; "yes" means the fire has been contained.

3) FIRE NARRATIVES

a) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE:

N/A

b) OTHER AGENCIES:

N/A

4) FIRE ACTIVITY - 45 fires for 34,682 acres over the weekend.

5) ANALYSIS - No significant fire activity reported. The fire danger

is high in Pipestone, Yosemite and Carlsbad, and very high in
Indiana Dunes, Grand Canyon and Hawaii Volcanoes. Grand Canyon
experienced red flag conditions yesterday, and they have also
been predicted for today.

(NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530 MDT, 5/7/90; NPS National Wildland Fire
Summary, 0430 MDT, 5/8/90).

OFFICE NOTES

1) Bryce Workman at HFC is currently writing a comprehensive history of the
NPS uniform. He is trying to track down information on badges employed in
the parks between 1886 and 1911. If you can help out, call Bill Halainen at
FTS 268-6013. (Bill Halainen, RAD/WASO)

STAFF STATUS

- Division Chief: Dabney in Hawaii to assess drug, fire and visitor
  protection operations and speak at training session (5/6-12).

- Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Coffey at NAR chief rangers'
  conference on Cape Cod (5/7-11).

- Branch of Fire: Norum and Zuckert at National Fire Danger Advisory Group
  meeting in Big Sur, California (5/7-10); Broyles at RX-90 burn boss cadre
  meeting at CHIR (4/29-5/11).


Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:  FTS 268-4874/6039 or 202-208-4874/6039
Telefax:    FTS 268-5977 or 202-208-5977
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