RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Thursday, May 10, 1990

INCIDENTS

No new incidents reported.

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Contain

              *** No significant fires reported ***

3) FIRE ACTIVITY - 237 fires for 947 acres during 24-hour period ending
0530 MDT 5/9/90.

4) ANALYSIS - The fire potential remains high in southern Florida and very
high in the Huron and Manistee NF's in Michigan. National park fire
danger: High at Yosemite and Death Valley; very high at Carlsbad Caverns,
Guadalupe Mountains and Hawaii Volcanoes; extreme at Indiana Dunes.

(NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530 MDT, 5/9/90; NPS National Wildland Fire
Summary, 0430 MDT, 5/10/90).

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); Martin at NAR chief rangers' conference
  on Cape Cod (5/10); Loach at training session in Shenandoah (5/10).

- 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




                 RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Friday, May 11, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-96 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Robbery

On May 8th, a female visitor was physically assaulted and $1,300 was stolen
from her in an incident which occurred at Grandview. The woman has been
hospitalized. No further information is currently available. (Bill Blake,
CR, NERI, via telephone report to RAD/WASO, 5/10/90).

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATTON - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Contain

MI     State        -             *Stephens Bridge           5,000+ Yes
       State        -             *Roscommon                   800  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:

- Stephens Bridge (Michigan DNR) - The fire destroyed 75 residences
before it was contained. Control efforts were aided by precipitation
and decreasing winds.

-  Roscommon (Michigan DNR) - The fire, which was caused by a downed power
line, destroyed 10 to 15 structures before being controlled.

4) FIRE ACTIVITY - 340 fires for 10,267 acres during 24-hour period ending
0530 MDT 5/10/90.

5) FIRE DANGERS - The following parks are experiencing high to extreme fire
danger:

       High                Very High                 Extreme

Carlsbad Cavern          Bryce Canyon                  None
Yosemite                 Zion
                         Big Cypress
                         Guadalupe Mountains

6) ANALYSIS - Precipitation received in Michigan has decreased fire
activity there.

7) PROGNOSIS - Fire activity in Michigan and Wisconsin is expected to
decrease with improving weather conditions.

(NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530 MDT, 5/10/90; NPS National Wildland Fire
Summary, 0430 MDT, 5/11/90).

RESOURCE PROTECTION/MANAGEMENT

Alaska - According to a UPI report, the Department of Interior is "poised to
assume wildlife management of two-thirds of Alaska after the state
legislators Tuesday rejected an order to guarantee subsistence hunting
rights to rural residents." The report continues: "Federal orders that
Alaska provide for the subsistence hunting needs of rural residents were
rejected by lawmakers at the close of the legislative session, setting the
stage for an unprecedented federal takeover of fish and game management from
the state...A federal law called the Alaska National interest lands
Conservation Act gives rural Alaskans a hunting preference over urban sport
hunters. State law established a similar subsistence preference for rural
residents - until last December when the state Supreme Court struck down the
state preference as unconstitutional on a challenge by sport hunters
(US Fish and Wildlife Regional Director Walter) Steiglitz said federal
authorities would take control of state game management July 1 and a team
was working full-time to implement a wildlife management plan 'that will
minimize disruption and confusion and provide for as smooth a transition as
possible considering the complexity of the issue and the tight time
constraints facing us.'"

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); Martin at NAR chief rangers' conference
  on Cape Cod (5/11); Kreis on lieu day.

- Branch of Fire: Broyles at RX-90 burn boss cadre meeting at CHER
  (4/29-5/11).


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