RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Monday, June 28, 1993

Broadcast: By 0830 ET

INCIDENTS

93-388 - Olympic (Washington) - Follow-up on Search

The body of J.H. was found below Mount Angelus at 10 a.m. on June
26th.  J.H. died from severe trauma sustained in a 200-foot fall off the
face of the mountain.  Searchers had little luck in their attempts to find
him until they made contact with a local lawyer who'd seen him while hiking
on the mountain on June 13th.  The lawyer and his children met J.H. on
the top of Mount Angelus at 6:30 p.m. that day.  They'd taken photos of each
other and exchanged addresses in order to forward the photos once they were
developed.  J.H. then descended the mountain on the correct route, but
apparently missed a turn, went too far down slope, then lost his footing and
fell.  Based on this new information, which included the photo showing
J.H. clothing and indicating his sole pattern, the search area was
shifted to the face of the mountain late on Friday.  His body was spotted
from a helicopter shortly after the search resumed on Saturday.  [Bill
Pierce, CR, OLYM, 6/26]

93-408 - Gateway (New York) - Assault on Officer

Just before 10:30 p.m. on June 27th, Park Police officers Kramer and Norman
approached a black Chevrolet Camaro with dark tinted windows in the Great
Kills area, which had closed at dark.  As they approached, the vehicle
started to depart; when Norman pursued it on foot, the vehicle turned and
attempted to run him over.  Norman fired one round from his service weapon,
which struck and entered the vehicle on the driver's side.  The vehicle
continued on into the city, but was chased and stopped.  The operator, 18-
year-old I.P.S., was arrested and taken before a U.S. attorney. 
Although the U.S. attorney declined to prosecute, charges were filed against
I.P.S. before magistrate's court for misdemeanor assault, reckless
endangerment, reckless driving, disobeying a lawful order, possession of a
weapon and possession of fireworks.  [Lt. Fellner, NYFO/USPP, 6/28]

93-409 - Yellowstone (Wyoming) - MVA with Multiple Serious Injuries

During the afternoon of June 24th, an elderly park visitor and his wife were
traveling east on the West Entrance Road near Madison Junction when they
turned across on-coming traffic and struck a vehicle traveling west on the
road at a high rate of speed.  Rangers from neighboring subdistricts and EMS
personnel from the community of West Yellowstone responded to assist Madison
rangers on the incident.  The two occupants of the eastbound vehicle were
pinned inside the vehicle and required a "Jaws of Life" extrication.  Three
of the four people in the two vehicles were critically injured and were
transported to area hospitals by both helicopter and ambulance.  Existing
mutual aid relationships and pre-planning were instrumental in the efficient
resolution of the incident.  [CRO, YELL, 6/25]

93-410 - Gateway (New York) - Rescue

Officer Grant Arthur of the Park Police marine unit was on patrol on a
Bombardier Sea-Doo watercraft on the afternoon of June 14th when he heard
screams for help coming from the waters of Beach Channel.  Arthur responded
and found two males and a three-year-old girl clinging frantically to one
life jacket.  The child was swallowing a great deal of water as the two men
struggled to keep her head above water.  Arthur picked up the girl and
placed her on his watercraft, then pulled one of the males aboard.  Officer
Albert Brown arrived on the scene in Marine 1 and retrieved the second male
from the water.  None of the three victims sustained any injuries, and were
taken back to their vessel.  Investigation revealed that the child had
fallen overboard and that her father and the second male had jumped in to
save her, leaving the boat adrift.  [C. Pappas, NYFO/USPP, 6/28]

93-411 - Gulf Islands (Mississippi/Florida) - Drug Seizure

On the afternoon of Monday, June 21st, Horn Island ranger Bill Wilson
recovered a taped and wrapped package from the high tide line on the south
shore of the island.  Similar packages containing cocaine had recently
washed ashore along Alabama beaches to the east.  The package was secured
and held for U.S. Customs.  Because of inclement weather, Customs was unable
to get out to the island to retrieve it until the 24th.  The contents tested
positive for cocaine, and the packaging proved to be similar to others
washing up on the coast from Alabama to Texas.  Rangers are working with
Customs to check the shorelines of all the Mississippi barrier islands and
Perdido Key in Florida.  The package weighed two kilos and had an estimated
value between $120,000 and $140,000.  [Gene Phillips, CR, GUIS, 6/25]

93-412 - Dinosaur (Colorado) - Boating Accident with Fatality

A party of 23 rafters in seven boats entered Warm Springs rapid on the Yampa
River around 5 p.m. on June 25th.  The first three boats made it through the
Class IV/V rapid and waited at the bottom for the remaining four boats.  The
fourth boat, a paddle raft with several people on board, ran several large
holes/waves before capsizing near the bottom of the rapid and dumping all
occupants into the river.  Boats which had already run the rapid quickly
came to the rescue and retrieved all the swimming rafters.  When B.F.,
55, of Wichita, Kansas, was pulled in, he was found to have not vital
signs.  CPR was begun by the group, which continued down river until
arriving at the Echo Park ranger station at 6:45 p.m.  The group continued
CPR for approximately two hours, but without luck.  NPS and Moffat County
personnel are investigating the incident.  The exact cause of death is
unknown at this time.  B.F. was wearing a Class V life jacket at the time
of the incident.  [Ed Pontbriand, DR, Yampa District, DINO, 6/24]

93-413 - Indiana Dunes (Indiana) - Drug Arrests

On the morning of June 23rd, roads and trails supervisor Shotters observed
drug paraphernalia in plain view inside a vehicle parked at a campsite and
contacted law enforcement rangers.  Rangers Gorman, Zwick, Wieszczyk and
Grish contacted the seven individuals at the site and obtained voluntary
consent to search them and their vehicles.  Marijuana was found on several
people and in two vehicles; a total of over 100 grams was confiscated, and
all were issued citations for possession of a controlled substance.  That
evening, rangers Gorman and Tadych were conducting a plain clothes operation
in the Mount Baldy area when they came upon marijuana and paraphernalia in
plain view inside a vehicle.  When the juvenile operator returned, he was
contacted and identification was requested.  When he opened his wallet,
Gorman saw several tabs of suspected LSD packaged in cellophane and
subsequently found a total of 28 tabs in the wallet.  The juvenile was
arrested and placed in the county juvenile detention facility.  He was 
charged with felony possession of a controlled substance.  The case will be
handled through county juvenile court.  [Joni Jones, ACR, INDU, 6/24]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level II

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              6/25     6/28    Status

 NM    BLM     Roswell           Bear              2,050     2,050   CND    

 OR    BLM     Prineville      * Cordwood              -       600+  CN 6/28

 CA    CDF     Lassen-Modoc    * Gallatin              -       300   CN 6/28

 AZ    State   -               * Springs               -    15,000   CND    
               -               * Ravine 
                                  Complex - T2         -     3,500   CL     

 CO    BIA     Southern Ute      Piedra Peak - T2    200       216   CL 

 FL    FWS     Okefenokee        Gnat Catcher      5,711     5,711   CN 6/28

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 - Fire dangers remain very high in most Southwestern
parks, including Lake Mead, Grand Canyon and El Malpais, and extreme at
Cumberland Island.  No significant fires are reported.

4) ANALYSIS - Moderate initial attack occurred in the Southwest yesterday,
mostly in Arizona; resource demobilization and reassignment continued. 
Minor initial attack was reported in southern California.  Except for
southern Colorado, where initial attack activity increased significantly,
activity was moderate throughout the Rockies.  Initial attack airtanker
movements for California's north zone occurred over the weekend.

5) PROGNOSIS - A red flag warning has been issued for increasing winds in
Nevada, and a watch is in effect for dry thunderstorms in southeast Arizona. 
The Southwest continues to be hot and dry, with isolated to widely scattered
thunderstorms and dry lightning.  Initial attack is expected to continue
there, and is also expected in southwest Colorado due to widely scattered
mountain thunderstorms.  Skies will be generally clear and temperatures will
remain the same in southern California.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 0530, 6/28]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Indiana Dunes (Indiana) - Fire Management Impact on Endangered Species

On June 1st, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a biological opinion
on the effects of the park's fire management activities on the Karner blue
butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis), which was listed as an endangered
species last December.  The Karner blue butterfly (Kbb) is also found in
Wisconsin, Michigan and New York, but the park has the third largest
remaining population in the world and the largest in its natural
environment.  The Kbb is difficult to manage because it lays its eggs and
later feeds on lupine, which is fire-dependent.  A fire will maintain the
prairie openings which the lupine requires, but will at the same time kill
the Kbb eggs or larvae.  The biological opinion requires that the park: 1)
survey every proposed burn area for Kbb; 2) burn no more than a third of any
area that has Kbb in one year (three to five units are preferred); 3) not
burn adjacent units in successive years: 4) assure burn frequencies of four
to ten years; 5) maintain at least 60% of the total 1992 population size on
Inland Marsh; 6) annually census Kbb populations on burned sites for four
years; and 7) provide an annual report to USFWS.  [Bill Gabbert, FMO, INDU]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at Branch of Fire and Aviation Management's annual
planning session (6/28-7/1).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Fire and Aviation: All staff at branch planning session (6/287/2).

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