RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Tuesday, May 15, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-97 - Cape Cod (Massachusetts) - Drug Arrests

During the early morning hours of May 12th, park rangers and Provincetown
police officers executed warrants which resulted in the arrest of 21
subjects for drug trafficking, distribution, possession and use. Many of
the charges stemmed from activity which occurred on park lands.
Approximately 14 police officers and eight rangers (including chief rangers
and the regional law enforcement specialist) participated in the Saturday
morning operation, which began at midnight. Drugs, motor vehicles, and
cash, including one package containing $5,000, were seized. The arrests
culminated a six-month-long joint investigation which stemmed from NPS drug
surveillance conducted during the fall of 1989. This surveillance was in
turn made possible through NPS drug enforcement funding. The investigation
focused primarily on cocaine, LSD, marijuana, hashish and illegally obtained
prescription drugs. As of yesterday morning, seven more subjects had either
turned themselves in or had been arrested during the remainder of the
weekend. (CompuServe message from Dennis Burnett, DR, CAOOj.

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATTCN - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

                                                                   Contain/
State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Control

NM     USFS      Lincoln          *Big                         100+ CN 5/16

AZ     NPS       Grand Canyon      Trick Tank                  190  CL 5/15

FL     State     State            *Unnamed                     200  None

NOTES:

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

3) FIRE NARRATIVES

a) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE:

-  N/A

b) OTHER AGENCIES:

-  Big Fire (Lincoln NF) - The fire is on Forest Service land three miles
southwest of Carlsbad Caverns and just north of Guadalupe Mountains.
The fire is burning in timber, grass and desert shrub. Access problems
and steep terrain, coupled with erratic winds, are hampering control
efforts.

4) FIRE ACTIVITY - 121 fires for 1,019 acres in past 24 hours.

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

       High                Very High                 Extreme

None                       Grand Canyon            Big Bend
                                                   Carlsbad Caverns
                                                   Guadalupe Mountains

6) ANALYSIS - Several areas in the Southwest - both in the NPS and other
agencies - continue to report very high to extreme fire dangers, and
a red flag watch for strong winds has been posted for Arizona and New
Mexico.

Carlsbad Caverns is at MC 5; they had six firefighters on full alert for
dispatch to the Big Fire on Sunday night, but were not called out.
Fire restrictions are in place at Guadalupe Mountains. Red flag
conditions are predicted to persist throughout the coming week at Grand
Canyon; thousand-hour fuels are now at 11 percent, with one-hour fuels
dropping to two percent in the afternoons. Extreme conditions are
predicted by mid-week.

7) PROGNOSIS - The potential exists for increased activity in the Southwest
due to hotter temperatures and high winds.

(NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530 MDT, 5/1590; NTS National Wildland Fire
Summary, 0430 MDT, 5/15/90).

OFFICE NOTES

1) On the evening of May 12th, Helen Olson Wirth, 86, the wife of Conrad
Wirth, the sixth director (1951-1964) of the National Park Service, died
unexpectedly of heart failure. She will be buried in Lakewood Memorial
Cemetery in Minneapolis on Saturday, May 19th. Helen is survived by Connie,
her husband of 64 years, her two sons, Ted and Pete, and grandchildren and
great grandchildren. The family asks that a donation be made to the E&AA
Education Trust Fund in lieu of flowers. Contributions to that fund may be
sent to E&AA, P.O. Box 1490, Falls Church, VA 22041. After May 19th, Connie
may be reached at P.O. Box 480, West Acres, New Lebanon, New York 12125.

STAFF STATUS

- Division Chief: Dabney at training session for RMR rangers at Mount
  Rushmore (5/13-16) then at BIFC for Center's 25th anniversary and for
  meetings with FIRE staff (5/16-19).

- Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Halainen at volunteer programs
  and public partnership plan working group meeting in WASO (5/15-16).

- Branch of Fire: Norum and Erskine in Washington for GAD close-out
  meeting on fire policy review recommendations (5/15-16); Botti in
  WRO to meet with FMO's from WRO, SEKI and YOSE (5/15-16).


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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