- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Monday, June 21, 1993
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993
RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
MORNING REPORT
Attention: Directorate
Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
Ranger Activities Division Information Network
Day/Date: Monday, June 21, 1993
Broadcast: By 0830 ET
INCIDENTS
92-561 - Allegheny Portage (Pennsylvania) - Follow-up on Commercial Dumping
Last October, rangers arrested T.P.Q. for dumping old tires on
the park's historic railroad trace, by which time T.P.Q. had deposited
approximately 4,500 tire carcasses at the site. The park assimilated two
new Pennsylvania statutes that classified tires as solid waste and therefore
required compliance with an established permitting procedure. Following an
extensive investigation in conjunction with FBI agents, state environmental
investigators, state police officers and the U.S. attorney's office, the
park was able to obtain eight indictments against T.P.Q. from a federal grand
jury. On May 25th, T.P.Q. entered into a plea agreement in which he pled
guilty to four of the eight counts - three counts of dumping solid waste,
and one of illegal transport of solid waste. He was sentenced to six months
in jail, with the provision that he would be released to the park during the
period in order to clean up the dump site. Should that project be completed
prior to completion of the sentence, the park will be free to assign T.P.Q.
to any other public service project that park staff deem appropriate. T.P.Q.
reported to the federal contract prison on June 7th and will begin cleaning
up the dump site a week from today. It's anticipated that the clean-up
effort will take most of the summer. [Steve Rudd, CR, ALPO/JOFL, 6/18]
93-379 - Sequoia/Kings Canyon (California) - Search in Progress
On June 16th, E.B., a visitor from Chino in his early thirties, went
for an evening stroll from Dorst campground, but did not return. He was
last seen by a park employee who redirected E.B. back to his campsite.
E.B. was reported missing that evening and a search for him was begun the
following morning. At the time of the report on Friday morning, about 50
people and several dog teams had been committed to the search. Tom Tschohl
is the incident commander. [Pete Allen, SEKI, 6/18]
93-380 - Obed (Tennessee) - Search
A successful search was conducted on June 14th and 15th for three hikers
overdue from a hike in the Nemo campground area. Rangers and 25 members of
three different county rescue squads walked park trails and employed 13 all-
terrain vehicles to look for the hikers on the many miles of four-wheeler
roads in the area. Search efforts were hampered by thunderstorms and the
extremely steep nature of the rocky terrain. One of the hikers was found by
the river at 7:30 a.m. on the 15th; the other two were discovered several
miles upstream two hours later. All three were exhausted and hungry but in
otherwise good condition. One rescuer suffered a possible fractured femur
when he slipped and fell while assisting one of the hikers over some slick
rocks by the river. He was put in an inflatable kayak and paddled upstream
to a river access trail, where he was placed in a litter and hand-carried to
the top of the gorge. The hikers had become lost after continuing past the
end of the Nemo trail and trying to return to the trailhead on one of the
four-wheeler roads. [Rob Turan, SAR Coordinator, OBED, 6/18]
FIRE ACTIVITY
1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level II
2) FIRE SUMMARY
State Agency Area Fire 6/18 6/21 Status
NV NPS Lake Mead * Christmas - 200 NEC
AZ State Pima County Piety
Complex - T2 4,700 25,180 CND
- * Lone Mountain - 120 CND
BLM Phoenix * Kingman - 830 CND
USFS Kaibab Point - T2 1,300 1,762 CND
Coconino Iron - T2 200+ xxx NEC
Coronado Graham
Complex - T1 4,000 525 CN 6/24
NM State - Adobe 150 150 CL
BLM Las Cruces Uvas 1,000 6,400 CND
* Park - 1,250 CN 6/24
FL FWS Okefenokee Gnat Catcher - T1 5,711 5,711 CN 6/26
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
CND - Contained CN (date) - Expected date of containment
3) PARK FIRE REPORTS - No significant reports. Firefighters from Grand
Canyon, Saguaro, Carlsbad Caverns, Zion and other Southwestern parks have
been committed to fires in that region.
4) ANALYSIS - Containment targets are being met on most project fires. Slow
and arduous progress was made on the Graham Complex. Resource mobilization
to the Southwest has been minimal. Moderate initial attack activity
continued in southern California.
5) PROGNOSIS - Southern California will be mostly sunny with a slight chance
of thunderstorms, thereby increasing the potential for initial attack
activity. There will be cloudy skies and widely scattered thunderstorms in
New Mexico, and breezy conditions with a chance of thundershowers in the
higher elevations in Arizona. Initial attack should be moderate; progress
will continue toward containment of large fires.
[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530, 6/21]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No field reports today.
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. Asterisks indicate new entries; brackets at end of entry indicate
source of information:
6/26-29 -- Effects of Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems: Annual
Symposium of the American Water Resources Association, Jackson
Hole, WY. Contact: David Naftz, USGS, 1745 West 1700 South,
Salt Lake City, UT 84104. [Janet Wise, RMRO]
6/30 -- Deadline for papers and abstracts for 55th Midwest Fish and
Wildlife Conference, to be held in St. Louis, MO, from December
11th to the 15th. Contact: DeeDee Darrow, 314-751-4115. [Steve
Cinnamon, MWRO]
7/7-9 -- EO for Supervisors and Managers, training course, Mather EDC,
Harpers Ferry, WV. Funded by benefitting accounts. For
application procedures, contact your regional employee
development officer. [EDC/STMA]
7/12-15 -- "Sustaining the Ecological Integrity of Large Floodplain Rivers:
Application of Ecological Knowledge to River Management",
Lacrosse, WI. Contact: Dr. Kenneth Lubinski, Environmental
Management Technical Center, 575 Lester Avenue, Onalaska, WI
54650. [Janet Wise, RMRO]
7/12-16 -- Workshop in Park Operations Evaluation, Mather Employee
Development Center, Harpers Ferry, WV. Nominations must be in
to Mather NLT May 27th. For application procedures, contact
your regional employee development officer. [Deke Cripe, WASO]
7/12-15 -- Conference on Sustainable Ecological Systems, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ. Contact: DuBois Conference Center,
PO Box 15003, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5003, 602-404-0234. [Kathy
Jope, RAD/PNRO]
7/25-30 -- Managerial Grid - Phase I/Managerial Grid Instructor Preparation
Seminar, Richmond, VA. The two courses will run concurrently.
Sponsored by ANPR. Applications or 10-182's must be submitted
by June 11th and should be sent to Debbie Gorman, ANPR, PO Box
307, Gansevoort, NY 12831. [Bill Wade, SHEN]
7/27-31 -- First International Bison Conference, Lacrosse, WI. Topics
include genetics, disease, nutrition, ecology, phenotype,
cultural issues, management, and seminars on marketing and meat
processing. There will also be a trade show. Contact: Ronald
Walker, 605-255-4515 (phone) and 605-255-4515 (fax). [Bruce
Bessken, BADL]
7/31-8/3 -- Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI. The NPS CPSU at the University of
Wisconsin will be hosting a reception for NPS personnel and
researchers interested in working in NPS areas. Contact: Jim
Bennett, 608-262-9937. [Joe Meyer, GIS/MWR]
8/1-5 -- 44th Annual Meeting, American Institute of Biological Sciences,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Contact: AIBS, 730 11th St.
NW, Washington, DC 20001-4521. [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
8/1-14 -- Summer School in Applied Deep Ecology, Shenoa Retreat Center,
Philo, CA. Contact: Institute for Deep Ecology, 303-939-8398.
8/3-5 -- Engineering for Wetlands Restoration, Adams Mark Hotel, St.
Louis, MO. Contact: Cheryl Lloyd, 601-634-3711.
8/12-15 -- 66th Pecos Conference: Southwest Archeology, Casa Malpais NHL,
Springerville, AZ. Themes will include PaleoIndian, Archaic,
Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam, MesoAmerican, Entrada, Historic, or
Method and Theory. Contact: Dr. John Hohmann, Louis Berger and
Associates, 5343 N. 16th St., Suite 260, Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602-
234-1124; fax 241-1561) or Brian Kenny, Arizona State Land
Department (602-506-4608; fax 506-4882). [Cal Cummings,
Anthropology/WASO]
8/24-26 -- Sponsored by Olympic Natural Resources Center, College of Forest
Resources, University of Washington. Contact: 800-942-4978 or
509-335-3530.
8/30-9/1 -- Historic Landscape Maintenance Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Registration for the conference will be $55, and the course will
be limited to approximately 140 participants. More detailed
information and registration forms will be sent to all parks and
regions in early June. Contact: Lucy Lawliss, historical
landscape architect, at 404-730-2275. [Lucy Lawliss]
9/12-16* -- Resource Technology '94, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Symposium
for scientists, practitioners and educators that will give the
inside track on information technologies for the future. For
further information, contact Bill White at 303-498-1777 or Cindy
Coley at 303-490-1688. [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
9/19-21* -- The Ecological Implications of Fire in Greater Yellowstone",
Second Biennial Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Mammoth, WY. Contact: Conference
Registration, Yellowstone Association, PO Box 117, Yellowstone
NP, WY 82190. [Kathy Jope, PNRO]
9/19-25* -- First International Wildlife Management Conference, Hotel
Cariaia, San Jose, Costa Rica. Contact IWMC Secretariat
Director, The Wilderness Society, 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda,
MD 20814 (301-897-9770). [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
9/20-24* -- Teaching with Historic Places, training course, Mather EDC,
Harpers Ferry, WV. Participants will use and established model
to develop lesson plans using historic places in their parks.
Lesson plans can be used in classrooms both on-site and
nationwide. The application deadline is August 3rd. Contact:
Beth Boland at 202-343-9545. [Marilyn Harper, WASO]
9/30-10/2* -- First Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference, The Virginian
Saloon and Conference Center, Jackson, WY. Theme: Human use of
high elevation environments. Topics: Mountain linguistics,
Fremont fringe and late prehistoric intensification;
Ute/Shoshone ethnology and prehistory; geoarchaeology and
paleoecology of the uplands; the greater Yellowstone ecosystem;
rock art in the "Great In-between"; management issues in the
mountains; high-altitude occupations. Contact: Michael Metcalf,
P.O. Box 899, Eagle, CO 81361 (303-328-6244). For local
arrangements, contact: Jamie Schoen, Bridger/Teton NF, PO Box
1888, Jackson, WY 83001 (307-739-5523). [Cal Cummings,
Anthropology/WASO]
STAFF STATUS
Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.
Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Smith on AL (6/21-6/22).
Branch of Fire and Aviation: Hurd on fire reviews at Yellowstone and Glacier
(6/21-6/27); Erskine at fire review at Yellowstone (6/23-6/25); Cook at
extreme fire behavior workshop (6/20-6/25); Swain at administrative workshop
(6/14-6/25); Gale and Broyles at incident management training exercise
development meeting (6/21-6/26).
Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities
Telephone: Branch of R&VP - 202-208-4874
Branch of F&A (WASO) - 202-208-5572
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