RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, March 25, 1993

Broadcast: By 0800 EST

INCIDENTS

93-112 - Shenandoah (Virginia) - Follow-up on Storm 

Park crews are continuing to dig out from the "Blizzard of '93."  About half
of Skyline Drive has been opened, but segments remain closed due to five- to
ten-foot drifts which still lie across the road.  Since the storm, rain has
fallen on the area and frozen.  The earliest that remaining closed portions
will be open to public use will be this Friday.  Trails at higher elevations
are still closed due to snow and limbs and trees that fell during the March
5th ice storm.  The park concession has reopened at Skylands and Big
Meadows.  The storm did some minor damage to houses and guest cabins, and a
sprinkler system failure occurred at Skyland Lodge.  [Larry Hakel, CR, SHEN,
3/23]

93-141 - Yosemite (California) - Marijuana Cultivation

While on boat patrol on Hetch Hetchy reservoir, ranger Mike Kerns came upon
a collapsible canvas kayak pulled up on shore in an area where boating is
prohibited.  Kerns followed the fresh footprints he discovered along the
shoreline and found an abandoned red duffel bag stuffed between two large
rocks about a half mile from the kayak.  Inside the bag were numerous seed
planters.  A naked man soon came walking up the beach.  The man, who
identified himself as R.A., admitted that the duffel bag was his
and that he was preparing to plant marijuana about two miles upriver at Hat
Creek.  Kerns followed R.A. to his campsite, where he found a bag
containing marijuana in plain sight.  A search of the campsite led to the
discovery of 369 grams of marijuana and seeds.  Kerns towed R.A. in his
kayak back to Hetch Hetchy dam, then took him to Yosemite jail, where he's
being held pending cultivation charges.  [Karen Frasier, YOSE, 3/24]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Sisto instructing at managing the
protection function training course (3/23-3/26).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Hurd instructing at managing the protection
function training course (3/23-3/25); Cook instructing S-230/260/390 (3/15-
3/26); Clark instructing S-490/590 (3/13-3/27); Botti at meeting to develop
hazardous fuel reduction cost/benefit model (3/24-3/25); Gale at national
incident commanders meeting (3/22-3/25).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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