RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, May 21, 1992

INCIDENTS

91-657 - Shenandoah (Virginia) - Follow-up on Poaching Arrest

On May 5th, V.R.C. of Stanley, Virginia, pled guilty to illegally
trapping a black bear in the park and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, a
year of supervised probation, a two-year ban on entering the park, a $100
fine and loss of all hunting privileges for a year.  V.R.C. was also
ordered to forfeit his Suzuki 4x4 ATV ($4,399 replacement value) and a .38
caliber handgun to the government; both were in his possession during the
incident.  The jail sentence will be suspended pending V.R.C.'s successful
completion of the probation period.  The conviction stems from an incident
which occurred last December in which V.R.C. was arrested while returning
to an illegally set culvert trap in the park's Grindstone Mountain area. 
Rangers had discovered the illegal trap on December 7th and had found a
200-pound bear in the trap upon returning to the site.  V.R.C. was apprehended
on the 9th as he returned to the trap with 22 pounds of apples for bait. 
The black bear was released after park biologists found that he was in good
condition.  [Telefax from Larry Hakel, CR, SHEN, 5/19]

92-203 - Southeast Regional Office (Georgia) - Follow-up on Employee Death 

The North Carolina Highway Patrol investigation into the accident which
killed SER chief appraiser Steve Milton on Monday has determined that 64-year-old
L.C., a druggist from Mooresville, North Carolina, was
driving southbound on U.S. 21 in his Mercury Topaz when he crossed the
center line and collided with Milton's Chrysler LeBaron.  All three persons
in the two vehicles were wearing safety belts and the air bag in the
Chrysler deployed.  Karol Neville, an appraisal assistant in the SER Land
Resources Division who was travelling with Milton, has been moved out of
intensive care.  She suffered head injuries in the accident, and may have to
undergo surgery on one of her ankles.  Messages may be sent to Karol at
Carolina Medical Center, P.O. Box 32861, Charlotte, NC 28232.  She will
probably remain in that facility through the weekend.  Milton's funeral will
be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday at Chapman's Funeral Home, 2851 Third Avenue,
Huntington, WV 25702.  Milton leaves his 19-year-old son, Steven, his
mother, and two brothers.  The family will receive visitors one-half hour
prior to the service.  Tom Piehl and Connie Rousey in SER Land Resources are
accepting contributions for both the Milton and Neville families.  [cc:Mail
message from J.M. Howard, Office of Communications, SERO, 5/20]

92-207 - Denali (Alaska) - Three Climbing Fatalities

Three Korean climbers died in a fall on Wednesday in yet another incident on
Mount McKinley.  The bodies were found at the 15,000-foot level after
observers warned rangers that the climbers might be in trouble.  The trio
fell down the Orient Express, a little-used route on the mountain's west
rim, while descending from 18,000 feet, where they'd been trapped by bad
weather for seven days.  The bodies will remain on the mountain until the
weather improves enough to allow a recovery team to enter the area.  The
three fatalities followed the rescue of three other Korean climbers on the
mountain's summit on Monday.  The three, who were stranded for a week
without food or water, were evacuated to an Anchorage hospital.  [Yereth
Rosen, Reuters, 5/21]

92-208 - Great Basin (Nevada) - Employee Fatality

On the morning of May 16th, the park received a request for medical
assistance at a private residence in the neighboring community of Baker,
Nevada.  Superintendent Al Hendricks and employees Jim Unruh, Andy Artz and
Kathleen Gonder responded.  Upon arrival, they found park employee Karen
Schuh, 51, unconscious and without a pulse.  CPR was begun immediately.  As
the only EMT response team in the area, the park crew transported the
patient to Ely, Nevada, 65 miles away.  CPR was administered during the
entire trip.  When the ambulance arrived at the hospital emergency room,
medical staff attempted to revive Schuh without success and she was
pronounced dead.  Schuh, who worked as the superintendent's secretary, had
recently suffered a brief illness.  [Al Hendricks, SUPT, GRBA, via telefax
from Mike O'Neal, RLES, RAD/WRO, 5/18]

92-209 - Grand Teton (Wyoming) - Suicide

At about 6:45 a.m. on May 14th, a park visitor found the body of a male
adult lying across the seat of a tan Ford pickup parked at the Spalding Bay
campsites at the south end of Jackson Lake.  He also found a suicide note
attached to the window.  Rangers and Teton County deputies investigated the
incident.  It was ascertained that the victim, Harrington Smalley, Jr., had
died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head sometime during the early
morning hours of the 14th.  [Don Coelho, LES, GRTE, via telefax from Jim
Reilly, RAD/RMRO, 5/18]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level 1

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire               5/20    5/21    Status

 ME    State   State            *Yellow Lake            -   1,000    CN 5/21

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
  CL - Controlled              MN - Being monitored
  CS - Confinement strategy    NEC - No estimate of containment
  CN (date) - Expected date    CND - Contained
     of containment

3) ANALYSIS - Very high indices are being reported in the northern Rockies.
   
5) PROGNOSIS - No resource shortages expected.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0537 MDT, 5/21]  

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Schamp at same session (5/18-5/22);
Coffey on annual leave (5/18-5/22).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Spruill at aviation management seminar, San
Francisco, CA (5/17-5/22); Gale at meeting developing Type II all-risk
management training scenarios, Phoenix, AZ (5/17-5/22); Broyles at NFPA
wildland fire conference, New Orleans, LA (5/17-5/22); Farrel at NFPA annual
meeting and site visit to Jean Lafitte, New Orleans, LA (5/16-5/23); Norum
on annual leave (5/17-5/30).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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