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 SITUATION  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 fulltime 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 RX90 burn boss cadre meeting at CHIR
(4/29-5/11).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:  FTS 343-4874/6039 or 202-343-4874/6039
Telefax:    FTS 343-5977 or 202-343-5977
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