RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Monday, October 26, 1992

Release:   0830 EDT

INCIDENTS

92-573 - Grand Teton (Wyoming) - MVA with Fatality

C.C., 23, of Jackson, Wyoming, was killed around midnight on
October 22nd in a single-vehicle accident about a mile north of Snake River
Overlook on Highway 89.  C.C. lost control of his 1983 Jeep, which went of
the road and rolled over.  A passerby, Brett Wickwar of Moran, Wyoming,
stopped at the scene and began CPR, then assisted a responding ranger in
continuing efforts to revive C.C.  When rangers fully took over
resuscitation efforts, Wickwar, who appeared to be intoxicated, became
argumentative and disruptive, then assaulted an officer from an assisting
agency.  He was arrested for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and
interfering with an agency function.  Charges for assault on an officer are
being considered.  [Dennis Ziemann, SDR, GRTE, 10/23]

92-574 - Yosemite (California) - Assault

On the afternoon of October 21st, Wawona District rangers were advised that
a couple with three large German shepherds was in the Mariposa Grove and
refused to remove the animals from a closed area.  When an interpretive
ranger contacted them, the dogs' owners, A.R. and K.R., refused to
cooperate and replied to the ranger's requests with profanity.  Law
enforcement rangers were then summoned.  When they attempted to talk to
A.R., he became more belligerent and advanced on one of the rangers
while the dogs were still unsecured.  The rangers broke off contact and
summoned the assistance of other rangers with control sticks for the
animals.  A.R. was again contacted and again responded with abusive
language and refusals to cooperate.  He was advised that he was under
arrest, but resisted and made it impossible for the rangers to cuff him. 
One of the rangers then approached A.R. and sprayed him once with Capstun. 
A.R. was immediately immobilized and taken into custody.  He was booked for
disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, interfering with an agency function
and other offenses.  [Pat Hattaway, YOSE, 10/23]

92-575 - Craters of the Moon (Idaho) -Poaching Arrests

Over the first ten days of the local deer season, rangers apprehended six
hunters inside the park's boundaries, cited all for multiple violations, and
seized three male deer.  In the most recent of the incidents, a juvenile was
spotted within the park, then two others were found with a six-point buck
which they'd shot inside the park.  [Bruce Edmonston, CR, CRMO, 10/24]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Television Show - On November 5th, the CBS series "Top Cops" will have a
segment on the sexual assailant who was caught by rangers at Chattahoochee
last year.  [Bill Dean, CHAT]

CALENDAR

Calendar appears in the morning report every other Monday.  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.  Entries are listed no earlier than four months before the
event.  An asterisk (*) indicates a new entry; a plus (+) indicates a
revised entry.  Brackets at end of entry indicate source of information:

November 1 - 4 - "Educating the Park Professional", annual conference,
Florida Institute of Park Personnel, Key Largo Sheraton Resort, Key Largo,
FL.  Contact: Larry Fooks at 305-451-1202.  [Larry Fooks, Florida DNR]

November 5 - 7 - Seventh Annual Wilderness Emergencies Conference, Sedona,
AZ.  Contact: Sharon Harbek, RN, PreHospital Care Coordinator, Flagstaff
Medical Center, PO Box 1268, Flagstaff, AZ 86002, 602-779-3366 ext. 4185. 
[Sharon Harbeck]

November 2 - 6 - "Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species: Traversing
the Legal and Administrative Terrain", Environmental Law Institute,
Portland, OR.  Tuition: $1500.  Contact: Moira Mcdonald, 202-939-3848, or
Suellen Keiner, 202-939-3839. [Margaret Osborne, Wildlife and Vegetation,
WASO] 

November 15 - 20 - National Workshop, National Association for
Interpretation, Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, CA.  For further information,
contact Mike Nicholson (510-373-5770) or Paul Ferreira (510-862-2244).

November 16 - 20 - "Partners in Stewardship", Seventh Conference on Research
and Resource Management in Parks and Public Lands, George Wright Society,
The Marina Hotel at St. Johns Place, Jacksonville, FL.  Contact: George
Wright Society, 906-487-9722.

* November 16 - 19 - Conference, Women in Federal Law Enforcement,
Washington, DC.  For information, contact Debra K. Mack (202-324-3750) or
Barbara Browning (202-324-4145).

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at regional chief rangers' meeting, Seattle, WA
(10/27-10/28) and annual leave (10/29-10/30).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Martin, Marriott, Sisto and
Halainen at regional chief rangers' meeting, Seattle, WA (10/26-10/28) and
annual leave (10/29-10/30). 

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Erskine at regional chief rangers' meeting,
Seattle, WA (10/26-10/29); Gale at regional chief rangers' meeting, Seattle,
WA (10/27) and annual leave (10/28-10/30); Broyles instructing RX90 burn
boss course, Harrisburg, VA (10/26-11/6); Farrel at metro planners'
conference, Los Angeles, and site visit to Channel Islands, CA (10/17-10/28);
Berg on FIREPRO audit, North Cascades, WA (10/26-10/29). 

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