RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Tuesday, November 17, 1992

Release:   0800 EDT

INCIDENTS

92-582 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Follow-up on Lava Flow

The vent on the west side of Pu'u 'O'o continues to feed open cascades of
lava over Pali Uli above Lae'apuki in the park's coastal district.  Output
has been estimated at over 100,000 cubic yards of lava per day.  Lava has
completely surrounded Moa Heiau and has flowed over and covered most of its
surface platform.  Six of seven campsites in the campground have been
buried.  Lava has also covered rocky outcroppings containing petroglyphs,
almost all of the black sand beach, and many trees.  The flow is moving
through tube systems extending over five miles from the vent to the ocean,
and is filling in the bay at Kamoamoa.  Over 18 acres of new land have been
added to the island since November 8th.  [Mardie Lane, PIO, HAVO, 11/16]

92-603 - Glen Canyon (Utah/Arizona) - Follow-up on Homicide/Suicide

On Friday, November 13th, two young girls, both dependents of concession
employees, discovered the bodies of a man and woman and a large dog about
300 yards north of Anasazi Lodge.  Responding rangers determined that the
couple had been dead for 24 to 36 hours.  All three apparently died of
gunshot wounds to the head; the male had a .38 caliber revolver in his hand. 
The park plane flew the Kane County sheriff, a deputy sheriff and two park
criminal investigators to the scene to conduct the investigation.  The
couple was identified from personal belongings found in their room and an
extensive written suicide pact.  The man and woman, who were from Littleton,
Colorado, were married, and their note indicated that the woman was pregnant
with twins.  Investigation into the reasons for their suicides continues. 
[Larry Clark, CR, GLCA, 11/16]

92-606 - Coulee Dam (Washington) - Encroachment Conviction

An investigation by rangers which culminated in charges of destruction of
natural resources and construction of unauthorized structures
(encroachments) on park land recently resulted in the defendant cooperating
with the U.S. Attorney's Office and signing a pre-trial diversion agreement. 
The agreement requires that the defendant, an adjacent property owner,
restore all resource damage (which resulted from extensive earth-moving
activity) to the specifications of the NPS, remove all encroachments from
park land, reimburse the NPS for the salary of an NPS heavy equipment
operator involved in the restoration project, and pay a fine of over $3,300. 
Encroachments from adjacent property owners are one of the park's greatest
resource threats.  Hundreds of such incidents have been documented to date. 
[Darrell Cook, CR, CODA, 11/16]

92-607 - Mammoth Cave (Kentucky) - ARPA Violations

On November 14th, Brad McDougal, the park's protection specialist,
videotaped two Great Onyx Job Corps students digging in an archeological
site located in the park about a half mile from the corps center.  The pair
fled when approached by McDougal, but were subsequently identified.  One of
the students confessed to digging for arrowheads both in this incident and
on five other occasions.  The other student, who is a juvenile, admitted his
involvement in damaging the site.  An archeologist from the Southeast
Archeological Center was to visit the site yesterday and prepare a damage
assessment.  The U.S. Attorney's Office will prosecute the case as an ARPA
violation.  At this time, no decision has been reached on whether to proceed
with ARPA felony or misdemeanor charges.  [RAD/SERO, 11/16]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at Alaska chief rangers' conference (11/19-11/20).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Dickerhoof, Smith and Marriott at
law enforcement conference at FLETC (11/16-11/20); Halainen and Martin at
DOI emergency incident response/all-risk management meeting (11/17-11/18);
Martin at same conference (11/18-11/20).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Gale at DOI emergency incident response/all-risk
management meeting (11/17-11/18); Botti and Berg at FIREPRO steering
committee meeting (11/16-11/20).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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