RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           Ranger Activities Division Information Network

Day/Date:	 Monday, November 25, 1991

INCIDENTS

91-632 - Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - Drug Arrests

On November 11th, a Border Patrol agent on Ajo Mountain Drive asked park 
rangers to assist him in capturing five suspects who had just fled from a 
vehicle loaded with marijuana.  A strike team comprised of chief ranger 
Aniceto Olais and rangers Victor Carrasco, Robert Stinson, Susan Hughes and 
Richard Finerty responded and began tracking the suspects toward the Mexico 
border, which was five miles away.  Aircraft were also involved in the 
search effort.  Three of the suspects were apprehended near the border, but 
the remaining pair managed to escape into Mexico despite the combined 
efforts of U.S. and Mexican authorities.  The 203-pound load, valued at 
$203,000, was seized.  This is the fifth major marijuana seizure which 
rangers have been involved in over the last month.  Over 1,000 pounds of 
marijuana were confiscated in those seizures.  [Aniceto Olais, CR, ORPI, 
via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 11/20]

91-633 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Rescue

D.W., 44, of Prescott, Arizona, was rafting on the Colorado 
River on November 18th when his raft overturned near Diamond Creek.  He 
lost the raft and all his supplies in the accident and was left with only 
his shirt and shorts, a life jacket, a knife and a lighter.  D.W., 
who had gone through survival training while in the military in 1966, built 
a shelter, then constructed a big "X" out of stones and kept a fire going 
at night in hopes that aircraft would spot it.  He put hot rocks inside the 
shelter to keep warm during 40-degree nights.  All he had for sustenance 
during subsequent days was a lizard, a grasshopper and a can of beer that 
washed ashore.  A search was mounted for him, and he was spotted by a 
helicopter crew on November 23rd, six days after his accident.  D.W. 
was reported to be in good condition despite breaking four teeth and 
suffering a puncture wound in a 25-foot fall after he was stranded.  
[Associated Press story, 11/24]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Halainen on AL (11/25-11/29).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Gale serving as incident commander for 50th 
anniversary of Pearl Harbor, U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, HI (11/25-12/9).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:	Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-4874/6039 or 202-208-4874/6039
              Branch of F&A (WAS0) - FTS 268-5572/5573 or 202-208-5572/5573
Telefax:	Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-6756 or 202-208-6756
              Branch of F&A (WASO) - FTS 268-5977 or 202-208-5977
CompuServe:	Branch of R&VP - WASO-RANGER
              Branch of F&A (WASO) - WASO-FIRE-WO
SEAdog:	Branch of R&VP - 1/650
              Branch of F&A (WASO) - 1/655