RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Monday, July 26, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-472 - Midwest Parks - Follow-up on Flood Impacts

* Jefferson National Expansion (Missouri) - Although floodwaters have
dropped slightly (about a foot since last Wednesday), the Corps of Engineers
is predicting that the Mississippi will again crest on July 28th at over 47
feet due to very heavy rain in the upper midwest.  There has been no let-up
in pumping operations within the arch, where between 800 and 1,000 gallons
are being drained per minute.  Visitation remains very high.  Numerous
citations have been issued for park after-hour closure violations and for
engaging in business without a permit (tee-shirt sales).  One vendor was
found to have 11 outstanding warrants against him; he had a stun gun,
marijuana and a pipe in his possession.  A seasonal law enforcement ranger
had to move her camper out of a trailer park in the South County area as
flood waters rose.  The site is now under seven feet of water.  [Deryl
Stone, CR, JEFF, 7/23]

* Fort Larned (Kansas) - The flood crest on the Pawnee River passed the fort
around noon on Saturday.  The river was back in its banks and flooded areas
were beginning to drain on Sunday.  The park has been reopened, although
cars must drive through several inches of water still flowing across the
entrance road.  The picnic area is still mostly underwater, but the
restroom, heavily used by travelers on Highway 156, was to reopen yesterday. 
Flood waters did not enter any building.  The park should be back to normal
shortly.  [Steve Linderer, 7/25]

93-514 - Theodore Roosevelt (North Dakota) - Public Health: Plague  

Plague-carrying fleas were confirmed in two flea pools from the park's South
Unit which were analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins,
Colorado, on July 7th and 19th.  The fleas had been collected during routine
monitoring of prairie dog colonies by park resource management staff on June
3rd.  Area closures include the Halliday Wells group campground and the Beef
Corral prairie dog colony.  Other visitor use areas have been posted with
warning signs.  All visitors entering the park have been provided with
plague informational handouts.  Front-country areas where visitor contact
with prairies dogs is likely have been dusted with an insecticide as a
public health measure.  At this time, there has been no evidence of prairie
dog die-off.  Monitoring efforts continue in other prairies dog colonies
throughout the park.  [Roger Andrascik, RMS, THRO, 7/23]

93-515 - Crater Lake (Oregon) - Rescue

On July 20th, M.D. and W.D. entered the Crater Lake caldera - a
closed area - in the vicinity of Watchman Peak and descended about 700 feet
before becoming stranded in steep and difficult terrain.  Neither had
adequate footwear or technical equipment to either descend or ascend the
caldera wall.  The two men were spotted by park employees working on the
lake.  Rangers were contacted and evacauted the pair by descending to them,
tying them into a static line, and escorting their ascent on belay from the
rim.  Both were cited for entering a closed area.  [Ewe Nehring, CRLA, 7/23]

93-516 - Chattahoochee River (Georgia) - Drowning

J.V., 42, of Mount Vernon, New York, slipped and fell into the
Chattahoochee on the afternoon of July 22nd as he was attempting to free his
family's raft, which had become stuck on rocks in an area known as the
Devils Race Course.  Family members subsequently told rangers that J.V. was
caught in the swift current and quickly pulled under.  He was the only
person in the party who was not wearing a life jacket.  While air
temperatures in the Atlanta area reached 102 degrees during the day, the
river temperature was about 60 degrees.  Rangers and Cobb County fire and
rescue divers searched the river until 7 p.m. without results.  The search
was to continue on Friday morning.  [Ken Garvin, CR, CHAT, 7/23]

93-517 - Chattahoochee River (Georgia) - Marijuana Eradication

Rangers and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers began an intensive
search for marijuana fields in the park and adjacent to its boundaries on
July 22nd.  During the first day, 100 plants were seized and the occupants
of a house bordering the park near Settles Bridge were arrested.  The
overall operation was cut short due to rangers' need to respond to the above
drowning and an attempted rape in the Jones Bridge unit.  The operation was
scheduled to continue on Friday.  [Ken Garvin, CR, CHAT, 7/23]

93-518 - Cumberland Gap (Kentucky) - Marijuana Eradication

On July 21st, rangers began a two-day marijuana eradication operation in and
adjacent to the park.  Twelve patches with 116 plants ranging in height from
one foot to five feet tall were located and destroyed.  Rangers were
assisted by state and local police.  [Charlie Chadwell, CUGA, 7/23]

93-519 - Apostle Islands (Michigan) - Rescue

D.G., 15, of Wausau, Wisconsin, was swimming with his father and
brother at remote, unguarded Meyers Beach on Lake Superior on July 18th when
he dove underwater and apparently struck his head on the bottom. 
D.G.'s brother found him floating motionless and face down in the
water and summoned his father.  The two righted D.G. so he could
breathe, then pulled him toward shore.  Members of a passing Wilderness
Inquiry kayaking group summoned assistance via marine radio; meanwhile, a
physician in the party stabilized the injury and brought the boy to land. 
Rangers and the local rescue squad responded.  D.G. was evacuated to a
regional trauma center by helicopter, and doctors subsequently determined
that he'd fractured his fifth cervical vertebra, an injury which typically
results in complete quadriplegia.  Inspection of the accident scene revealed
a plain, sandy bottom, completely free of obstruction.  [William Ferraro,
Acting CR, APIS, 7/23]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level II

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              7/23      7/25   Status

 AK    State   SW Area           304632 - T2      10,270    10,810   CN 7/30

 NM    BLM     Roswell         * Quahada               -       120   CL

 GA    NPS     Cumberland Isl.   High Point          160       160   CND    
       FWS     Okefenokee        Hummingbird         160       122   CN 7/24

 SC    USFS    Francis Marion  * 32 Mile Road          -       100   CND

 IL    USFS    Shawnee           Flood assist - T2   N/A       N/A   N/A

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 - Park fire reports not available today.

4) ANALYSIS - Due to moist cool weather over most of the West, fire activity
was minimal through the early weekend.  The only areas with significant fire
activity were Alaska and the Southwest.

5) PROGNOSIS - Initial attack activity for Sunday was expected to be minimal
for most of the West north of Arizona due to cool, moist air throughout the
area.  Widely scattered thunderstorms were forecast for the Southwest, and
no significant activity was expected.  Initial attack and large fire
activity was expected to continue in Alaska and the Southwest.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 7/25]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

San Antonio Missions (Texas) - Afrizanized Honey Bees

A hive of Africanized honey bees was recently located in a void in a stone
wall at Mission San Jose.  Although the park has experienced numerous
infestations of honey bees in historic structures, this was the first
documented case of Africanized honey bees in the park.  The hive was not in
a high visitor use area, but the potnetial for disturbance by mowing
activities was significant.  The hive was accordingly destroyed by park
staff with an approved pesticide.  [Alan Cox, CR, SAAN]

NOTES

1) The Office of the Secretary is conducting a survey on Total Quality
Management (TQM) activities in accord with Vice President Gore's National
Performance Review, which was initiated to determine ways and means for
streamlining government processes.  If you have been involved in TQM in any
way - whether in TQM culture development, training, as a member of work
groups, in the identification of customers, or as a participant - please
contact Judie Divita (MMS) at 202-208-1547 between August 2nd and 6th.  Your
input counts.  The NPS contact for TQM is R. Flip Hagood at 202-523-5280. 
[R. Flip Hagood, EDD/WASO]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Sisto at meetings in Alaska
Region (7/26-8/6); Halainen at management grid training course (7/26-7/30).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Farrel at Presidio transition meeting (7/26-
7/30); Gale instructing management grid training course (7/26-7/30).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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