RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, February 25, 1993

Broadcast: By 0800 EST

INCIDENTS

No new incident reports received.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Departmental Nominations - The White House named seven officials to serve
under Secretary Babbitt yesterday:

* Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks - George T. Frampton,
  Jr., president of the Wilderness Society;
* Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management - Bob Armstrong, a
  former Texas state land commissioner and now an energy aide to Texas
  Governor Ann Richards;
* Assistant Secretary for Water and Science - Elizabeth Ann Rieke, director 
  of Arizona's Department of Water Resources;
* Assistant Secretary for Territorial and International Affairs - Leslie M.
  Turner, a Washington, D.C., attorney;
* Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget - Bonnie Cohen, a
  senior vice president with the National Trust for Historic Preservation;
* Director, Bureau of Land Management - Jim Baca, New Mexico's land
  commissioner; and
* Solicitor - John Leshy, a former Arizona State University law professor
  now working for the House Natural Resources Committee.

[Washington, Post, 2/24]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at ARD/Operations meeting (2/23-2/26).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Halainen at meeting (2/25).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Spruill at NPS aviation accident review board
meeting (2/22-2/26); Gale at meeting in ARO (2/22-2/25) and instructing at
all-risk training course (2/26-2/28); Broyles and Bristol at training and
safety and health conferences (2/21-3/2); Erskine at fire meeting with
regional FMOs (2/24-2/26).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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