RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Wednesday, June 24, 1992

INCIDENTS

91-79 - C&O Canal (Maryland) - Follow-up on Illegal Tree Cutting

On March 19, 1991, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore filed a $1
million civil complaint against L., J. and M.G. for cutting down
two dozen large trees in March of 1988 in volation of an agreement which
they had made with the park.  Criminal charges were also filed.  On June
23rd, J.G. pled guilty to one count of destruction of trees on public
land, and faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine when sentenced in
September.  Although the trees were on property owned by G.'s family, they
were protected under a 1978 agreement under which the NPS paid the family
$88,341 to preserve the trees to protect the adjacent park.  Evidence showed
that G. ordered 20 to 30 trees cut on the land in 1983 and 1984.  He cut
another 20 trees in 1986 and was warned against doing so again.  In 1988,
prosecutors said G. ordered a third cut.  The G.s allegedly cut the
trees to improve their view of the river and reception for their satellite
dish.  The lawsuit, which is still pending, demands that the G.s reforest
the property.  [Associated Press, 6/23]

91-630 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Follow-up on Arson Arrests

On June 19th, a District Court judge sentenced J.V., 37, and R.M.,
27, both of Beaver, West Virginia, for four arson fires which they
set in the Grandview area of the park last November.  Both men were ordered
to serve three months and a day in jail on the first count and three months
on each of the other counts, and the judge also ordered that the sentences
be served consecutively.  The pair had been charged in April on four
misdemeanor counts under 18 USC 1856 (Fires left unattended and
unextinguished) following an investigation by rangers.  Both had been
intoxicated at the time the fires were started.  [Chris Schraeder, CI, NERI,
6/23]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area              Fire             6/23    6/243    Status

 CA    NPS    Yosemite NP          Dome               125     xxx    CND
       USFS   Modoc NF             Timber Mt.       1,200   xxxxx    NEC
              Klamath NF           Ben                300     xxx    NEC

 ID    BLM    Boise District       Sheep Creek        500     xxx    NEC

 ME    State  -                    Ledge Road         900     xxx    NEC

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            DM - Demob in progress

3) NIFCC FIRE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS -

 * 

4) NPS FIRE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS - 

 * Yosemite - Suppression operations on the Dome Fire were reported to be
   progressing well yesterday.  Containment of the south flank has been slow
   due to inaccessible terrain, and has been worked primarily by a Type I
   helicopter.  Other flanks have been contained.  Line improvement and
   mop-up were to continue on the fire yesterday.

 * Lava Beds - Engine 12, water tender 7 and structural engine 10 have
   been committed to the Timber Mountain Fire.
 
5) ANALYSIS - 

6) PROGNOSIS - 

[NPS Wildland Fire Summary, 6/20; NIFCC Intelligence Section, 6/20]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES


STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Henry on annual leave (6/25-7/2);
Smith on annual leave (6/22-7/2); Coffey on detail to WASO Wildlife and
Vegetation.

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Hurd at Branch of F&A, Boise, ID (6/22-6/24);
Mattingly at Coronado NM, AZ (6/24-6/27); Norum at joint meeting with USFS
on fire and ecosystem maintenance, Portland, OR (6/23-6/25); Farrel
reviewing structural fire program, Crater Lake NP, OR (6/21-6/26); Bristol
at IRM working team committee meeting, Annapolis, MD (6/22-6/25); Broyles at
meeting on "Fire Management for Administrators", WASO (6/22-6/26); Crabtree
at VMS system and network management course, Seattle, WA (6/22-6/26).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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