RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Monday, June 18, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-137 - Olympic (Washington) - Fatality

On the morning of June 10th, a couple appeared at Forks Hospital in
Washington with their four-week-old female baby. They told hospital staff
that they had been camped at Kalaloch campground in Olympic, that they had
found something wrong with the baby when they woke up at 6 a.m., and that
they had therefore packed up and driven to the hospital. Doctors pronounced
the baby dead on arrival, and said that she was apparently a SIDS victim.
There was no trauma to the body. The couple then left the hospital with the
baby. A BOL was put out which led to their being stopped at the Canadian.
U.S. border at Blaine, Washington. At the park's request, the Whatcom
County Sheriff's Office took custody of the body and transported it to a
hospital in Bellingham. An autopsy has been scheduled. (Report from Bill
Frazier, OLYM, via CompuServe message from Mark Forbes, RAD/PNRO, 6/12).

90-138 - Acadia (Maine) - Fatality

At about 9:30 a.m. on the 14th, a park rangers saw a woman walking onto
Little Moose Island in the Schoodic section of the park. The island can be
reached by foot at low tide. Later that afternoon, the same ranger noticed
that her vehicle was still parked at a turnout. Since the tide was then
high, he waited until low tide at 6:30 p.m., then walked out to the island.
He there discovered the body of 38-year-old C.M., of Bangor,
Maine, who had died some time during the day from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound from a .22 caliber revolver. She left two notes in her personal
effects describing procedures for notification of her next of kin and
apologizing to the people who found her for any inconvenience she might have
caused. An investigation is underway. (Rod Danner, DR, ACAD, via telefax
from John Lynch, RAD/NARO, 6/15).

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    Acres  Status

*** No significant fire activity ***

NOTES:

- Fires - Asterisk indicates newly reported fire. T1 and T2 indicate
  assigned Type I and Type II Teams.
- Status - Containment/control dates are estimates; CN means
  contain, CL means control, MN means the fire is being monitored; "none"
  means no estimate; "yes" means the fire has been contained.
- Agencies - All BLM areas are districts; CDF is California
  Department of Forestry.

3) FIRE ACTIVITY - 75 fires for 375 acres in past 24 hours.

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

       High                Very High                 Extreme

Big Cypress              Zion                     Cumberland Island
Bandelier                Scotts Bluff             Fort Union
El Malpais               Guadalupe Mountains      Salinas
Hawaii Volcanoes         Padre Island             Canyon de Chelly
Sequoia/Kings            Lake Meredith            Hubbell Trading Post
                         Sunset Crater            Navajo
                         Wupatki                  Chiricahua
                         Grand Canyon
                         Joshua Tree
                         Saguaro

5) ANALYSIS - Agencies throughout the Southwest continue to report very
high to extreme fire dangers. National parks report the following:

* Yellowstone - The park had its first lightning fire on 6/14 when
a single cottonwood was hit near the north entrance. It was
quickly extinguished. Fire danger is currently low.

* Cumberland Island - The park is at MC5.

* Big Cypress - The park has had no rain over the past week and fuels
are very dry.

* Big Bend - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms are predicted. Patrols
will be looking for lightning strikes.

6) PROGNOSIS - Moderate activity expected in the Southwest.

(NTS National Wildland Fire Summary, 0430 MDT, 6/18/90; NIFCC Intelligence
Section, 0530 MDT, 6/18/90).

TRANSMITTAL

Memorandum: "Departmental Manual Revision - Parts 350-354, Aviation
Management", signed last week and sent to all regional directors, the chief
of the United States Park Police, and the chief of the Branch of Fire
Management. Reply due July 20th. Transmits a draft of the proposed
revisions to the DM aviation section. For further information, contact
Butch Farabee at FTS 268-4188.

CALENDAR

Asterisk (*) indicates new entry; plus (+) indicates revised entry.
Brackets at end of entry indicate source of information:

June 19 - 22 - NEPA Symposium and Fifteenth Annual conference of the
National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP), Marriott-
Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX. For further information, call NAEP at 703-660.2364.

* July 29 - 31 - "Wildlife 2001: Populations", Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel,
Oakland, CA. An international conference for research workers and agency
personnel with interest in the science, conservation and management of
vertebrate populations, exclusive of fish and primates. Sponsored by The
Wildlife Society and Department of Forestry and Resource Management,
University of California, Berkeley. For further information, contact Dale
McCullough (415-642-8462) or Reg Barrett (415-642-7261).

August 5 - 9 - "Recapturing a Vanishing Heritage", Twelfth North American
Prairie Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. For
further information, contact Twelfth North American Prairie conference, 2759
McCollum Science Hall, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614.
[Kurt Topham, HEHO]

September 11 - 13 - EMS Coordinators* Training, Albright Training Center.
More information to follow. [Butch Farabee, RAD/WASO]

October 13 - 19 - "Natural Areas and Yosemite: Prospects for the Future11,
Yosemite (10/13-14) and Sheraton Conference Center, Concord, CA (10/15-19).
Sponsored by The Natural Areas Association, Yosemite NP, and The Yosemite
Fund. Inquiries should be directed to Coordinator, NA/Yosemite Centennial
Symposium, GCNRA, Fort Mason Building 201, San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-556-
1009). [Jenness Coffey, RAD/WASO]

November 8 - 10 - "The Spanish Missionary Heritage of the United States",
Fountain Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, TX. For registration information, please
write to Quincentenary (Committee, San Antonio Missions NHP, 2202 Roosevelt
Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78210 or call either Racinda Meno or Dr. Art Gomez
at 512-229-5701.

November 12 - 15 - "Resource Technology 90", International Symposium on
Advanced Technology in Natural Resource Management, Washington, D.C. For
more information, contact conference coordinator Janette Evans at 303-226.
1688. Harvey Fleet, NPS-GIS, DSC, is coordinating the "Parks and Protected
Areas" segment of the session. [Kathy Jope, RAD/MARO]

November 12 - 17 - Sixth (Conference on Research in the National Parks and
Equivalent Reserves, Westin Paso Del Norte Hotel, El Paso, TX. Sponsored by
George Wright Society. For further information, call the 1990 Coherence
Committee at 415-556-1866. [George Wright Forum].

November 13 - 16 - "Agency and Inter-agency Response to Natural and
Technological Disasters", Sixth Annual Environmental Roundtable, Interlaken
Resort and Spa, Lake Geneva, WI. Sponsored by MWRO, DOI's Office of
Environmental Affairs (Chicago), USFS (Region 9) and EPA (Region 5). For
further information, contact John Townsend, FTS 864-3475. [John Townsend,
MWRO]

November 27 - 30 - Annual regional recreation fee and reservation system
coordinator training, 7000B, Department of Interior. Benefitting account
pays travel and per diem. Contact Wes Kreis, FTS 268-4205. [Wes Kreis,
RAD/WASO]

December 10 - 14 - FMO meeting, location to be determined. [Doug Erskine,
FIRE]

(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

- Division Chief: No scheduled travel.

- Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Martin on AL (6/17-6/20);
  Loach on AL (6/18-7/9); Healy on AL (6/17-6/22).

- Branch of Fire: Broyles and Clark at S-490/590 steering committee meeting,
  Portland, OR (6/18-22).


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