RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/date: Wednesday, September 19, 1990

INCIDENTS

No new incidents have been reported.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1) Assateague Island (Maryland) -

On September 7th, the Maryland-Virginia Barrier Island International
Shorebird Reserve was dedicated. This reserve is the latest addition to the
Western hemisphere shorebird reserve system, a group of about a dozen sites
which are committed to protecting shorebird species. Assateague Island has
joined forces with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nature
Conservancy and the states of Maryland and Virginia to create this reserve,
which extends from Ocean City to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.

[Resource management and protection notes will appear daily in the morning
report. Parks with significant activities in this area should submit the
information to Ranger Activities through standard incident reporting
channels].

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) PRFEAREDNESS LEVEL - II

One geographic area experiencing high fire danger. Numerous Class A, B, and
C fires occurring and a potential exists for escapes to larger (project)
fires. Minimal mobilization of resources from other geographic areas
occurring. The potential exists for mobilizing additional resources from
other geographic areas.

2) NATIONAL FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency      Area             Fire                    9/18          9/19  Status

UT     USFS      Wasatch-Cache NF  Strongs Canyon            150           150  None

CO     USFS      White River NV    Ute Creek - T2            200           200  CN 9/18

GA     FWS       Okefenokee NWR    Shorts - T2             2,620         2,620  None

NOTES:

- Fires - Asterisk indicates newly reported fire (on this
  report). T1 and T2 indicate assigned Type I and Type II Teams.
- Status - The following abbreviations are employed:

  * NR - No report received      * MS - Modified suppression strategy
  * CN - Contained               * MN - Being monitored
  * CL - Controlled              * None - No estimate of containment
  * CS - Confinement strategy    * Yes - Fire has been contained

3) NATIONAL FIRE ACTIVITY - 199 fires for 1,948 acres in past 24 hours.

4) NPS FIRE DANGERS (9/18) -

       High                Very High                  Extreme

El Malpais              Cumberland Island           Cape Cod
Golden Gate             Pinnacles                   Joshua Tree
Grant-Kohrs             Great Basin                 Hawaii Volcanoes
Indiana Dunes
Natchez Trace
Lassen Volcanic
Point Reyes
Redwood
Sequoia/Kings
Whiskeytown
Voyageurs
Yellowstone
Yosemite

5) NPS MOBILIZATION/DEMOBILIZATION -

  Resource              9/17        9/18

Firefighters             156         159
Monitors                   3           3
Overhead personnel        55          58
Type I crews               3           2
Engines                    9           9
Helicopters                6           6

6) ANALYSIS - Initial attack activity is on-going in the Great Basin,
California, Rocky Mountains and the Southeast. Very high to extreme
conditions are being reported in California.

7) PROGNOSIS - No resource shortages expected.

(Telefax from Marla Mino, Branch of Fire, Boise, 1600 MDT, 9/18; NICC
Intelligence Section, Fire Management Situation Report, 0530 MDT, 9/19).

OFFICE NOTES

1) The following memo was sent out to all regional personnel offices from
the WASO Personnel Division on September 14th:

"For several weeks we have been negotiating with the Office of Personnel
Management (OEM) on whether, in accordance with 5 CFR 831.907, it will be
necessary for employees to update their 6(c) cases and, if so, what format
will be required for those updates.

"We have been informed by OEM that it will be necessary for employees who
filed timely requests for individual service credit under 8336(c) by
September 30, 1989, to again file by September 30, 1990 to cover the
additional year. It will also be necessary for any other employee who
wishes to have OEM consider coverage in a position or credit for service
since September 30, 1989, to file within one year of the date for which they
wish coverage. OEM will no longer grant coverage for 'a period greater than
one year prior to the date that the request from an individual is received
by the employing agency.'

"The Department has indicated that we may accept submissions to cover the
period to September 30, 1990, until November 1, 1990."

Regional personnel offices are asked to forward the information attached to
the memorandum (to extensive to reprint here) to all interested employees as
soon as possible. Employees who have filed 6(c) cases must receive
individual notification.

STAFF STATUS

- Division Chief: Dabney at ranger work force meeting in Minneapolis
  (9/17-9/20).

- Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Coffey on SL (9/17-9/21).

-  Branch of Fire: Hurd in Acadia (9/17-9/21); Gale in Shenandoah to review
  fire management program, work on MAR all-risk training and attend ICS
  working team meeting (9/15-9/26); Broyles in Shenandoah for all-risk
  and ICS meetings and in Washington for NWCG meeting (9/16-9/26); Erskine
  at NWCG meeting in Maine (9/17-9/23); Clark instructing at extreme
  fire behavior seminar (9/17-9/22); Marla Mino on detail to Branch from Big
  Cypress (9/10-9/24).


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
CompuServe: WASO-RANGER (Branch of R&VP); WASO-FIRE-WO (Branch of Fire)
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