RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Monday, August 30, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-632 - Southeast Region - Hurricane Emily

Preparations are underway for the arrival of Hurricane Emily, which will
likely strike North Carolina's Outer Banks some time tomorrow.  A mandatory
evacuation has been ordered for Outer Bank islands; although contact has not
yet been made with Cape Hatteras, the chief ranger at Cape Lookout reports
that all visitors and staff will be off that park's islands by noon today. 
Moore's Creek, which is inland and to the south of the capes, has begun
preparing for the storm, but will wait until noon today before deciding on
whether or not to take any substantive actions.  One of Southeast Region's
Type II all risk teams has been alerted.  There will be a meeting in the
regional office this morning to discuss potential response actions.  [Steve
Smith, RAD/SERO, 8/30]

93-633 - Fort Larned (Kansas) - Death of Employee

Ranger Maurice Ross, 63, died at home some time during the night of August
27th.  When he failed to arrive for work on the morning of the 28th and
calls to his residence went unanswered, his landlord was contacted.  The
landlord subsequently found Ross's body in bed.  Ross's health had been
declining lately, and all indications are that he died of natural causes; an
autopsy is to be conducted today.  Ross was a teacher in Nevada and
California from 1955 to 1972, and he began his career as a seasonal at
Yellowstone in 1975.  He also worked seasonally at Wind Cave, Lincoln Home,
Lake Mead, Lehman Caves, Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon and Fort Larned
before taking a permanent position at the latter.  He leaves a sister and
his mother.  [Steve Linderer, Superintendent, FOLS, 8/28]

93-634 - C&O Canal (Maryland) - Arrest for Assault

On the afternoon of August 22nd, ranger George DeLancey was on patrol in the
McCoy's Ferry campground when he observed two men - K.C., 33, and
K.B., 26, both of Hagerstown, Maryland - fighting at a campsite. 
As DeLancey approached, the two separated; K.B. then walked to a pickup
truck and picked up a crescent wrench while K.C. reached down and picked
up a hand axe.  DeLancey radioed for backup, entered the campsite, and
ordered both men to drop their weapons.  Both refused.  As K.C. began
walking toward DeLancey, DeLancey drew his service weapon, pointed it at
K.C., and ordered him to drop his axe.  K.C. did so.  As DeLancey turned
in K.B.'s direction, K.B. dropped his weapon.  DeLancey then
separated the two men with the assistance of K.C.'s brother.  Upon
investigation, DeLancey learned that K.B. had come to the camp site with
a female companion to visit K.C.  K.B., who had been drinking, became
hostile towards K.C. and attempted to choke him with a wire around his
neck.  K.C. was able to get his hands between his neck and the wire and
pushed K.B. away.  K.B. was taken into custody, held overnight at a
local detention center, then taken to federal court in Baltimore.  K.C.
was released on his own recognizance.  K.B. is to appear in court on
September 10th.  [Keith Whisenant, CHOH, 8/23]

93-635 - North Cascades (Washington) - Shooting

At about 2:30 p.m. on August 22nd, a woman was shot in her buttocks by a
pellet gun while riding her bike at an unspecified location in the park. 
The woman was able to describe the vehicle which her assailant was driving,
and it was later found in the park.  Two of the four individuals within were
arrested by county deputies.  A detailed report is to follow.  [Pete Cowan,
NOCA, 8/26]

93-636 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Search for Murderers

Rangers assisted several state and local law enforcement agencies in a
search of the New River Gorge area for two fleeing murderers for three days
last week.  C.S. and B.H. escaped from the Huttonsville
correctional facility while on a work detail on August 11th, and
subsequently committed three execution-style murders in the northern part of
the state.  They fled in a vehicle after the second murder incident, in
which a husband and wife were killed, then abandoned it in a wooded area on
the rim of New River Gorge on August 25th.  A major manhunt was begun, but
was canceled on the 27th when it was learned that the two escapees had
kidnapped three people and fled the area.  The three people were eventually
released unharmed near Petersburg, West Virginia, and the manhunt was
continued in that area.  [Rick Brown, DR, NERI, 8/27]

93-637 - Arches (Utah) - Flash Flood

On August 8th, a large thunderstorm passed over the park and dropped three-
quarters of an inch of rain in about 40 minutes at the headquarters weather
station.  The weather was even more severe in the heart of the park further
north, where hail caused whiteout conditions.  Park visitors driving the
main road pulled over to wait out the rain, including Dean Jakubczak, who
was riding a motorcycle.  A flash flood came down one of the dry washes that
went beneath the road; the volume of water was many times the capacity of
the 30-inch culvert and therefore spread down the road for about a half
mile.  Jakubczak's cycle was picked up and carried 770 feet down the road,
then into another wash, where it was buried.  The cycle and all of
Jakubczak's personal gear were lost.  Jakubczak, who had sought refuge in
another visitor's van, attempted to save his cycle as the flood waters rose. 
His shoelaces became caught in the kickstand as the bike fell over, and he
was dragged some 20 feet before becoming disentangled.  He was not injured. 
[Jim Webster, CR, ARCH, 8/24] 

93-638 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Structural Fire; Possible Arson

Around 12:30 a.m. on August 22nd, rangers responded to a report of a
structural fire in the town of Thurmond and found that the historical
railroad repair building was fully involved and threatening other historical
structures nearby.  Due to the limited amounts of water available,
structural engines from Oak Hill concentrated on saving the threatened
historical structures while the engine house burned to the ground.  The
railroad repair building was under lease to the NPS from the CSX
Corporation.  Acquisition was pending.  The building was considered a key to
the historical interpretation of the town and was one of the planned center
pieces in the NPS development of Thurmond.  Since there were no utilities
connected to the building, the fire is being treated as arson and an
investigation is underway.  [Rick Brown, DR, NERI, 8/25]

              [More pending incident reports tomorrow...]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              8/29      8/30   Status

 CA    BLM     Cal Desert      * Castle                -       130   CN 8/30

 AZ    BLM     Arizona Strip   * Cottonwood        1,200     2,152   CND    
               Phoenix         * Springs               -       120   CND

 LA    FWS     Sabine          * Klett               450       450   CND    
                               * Hanks               150       150   CN 8/29

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) ANALYSIS - Only minimal fire activity is being reported in the Western
states.  Extended attack fires are continuing in the South.

4) PROGNOSIS - A red flag watch for strong north winds has been issued for
the northern portion of the Sacramento Valley and nearby foothills.  The
predicted winds may cause control problems with any new starts in those
areas.  Southern and central Nevada and Utah will receive scattered showers
and thundershowers; skies will be mostly sunny in the northern halves of
both states.  Initial attack is expected to remain minimal.  The South will
be partly cloudy with afternoon and evening thunderstorms.  Drought
conditions persist in east Texas after 60 days without moisture.  Texas will
remain hot and partly cloudy; isolated thunderstorms are predicted and may
cause more initial attack fires.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 8/29 and 8/30]

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:

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 Sindy
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]  

10/14-16 -- Eight Annual Wilderness Emergencies Conference, Flagstaff, AZ. 
Sponsored by Flagstaff Medical Center.  Contact: Sharon Harbeck,
RN, PreHospital Care Coordinator, Flagstaff Medical Center, PO
Box 1268, Flagstaff, AZ 86002 (602-779-2055).  [Sharon Harbeck,
FHMC] 

10/14-12/22 -- Basic Law Enforcement for Land Management Agencies, FLETC,
Glynco, GA.  Funded by the Law Enforcement Employee Development
Center at FLETC.  Contact your regional employee development
office for application procedures.  [Carole Pfeifer,
LEEDC/FLETC] 

10/18-29 -- Curatorial Methods, Stephen T. Mather Employee Development
Center, Harpers Ferry, WV.  Please contact your regional
employee development officer regarding nomination due dates. 
[Gloria Baker, STMA] 

10/18-22 -- Archeological Curation and Collections Management, Tucson, AZ. 
Sponsored by Mather Employee Development Center and George
Washington University.  Tuition is $500.  Contact your employee
development officer regarding nomination due dates. [Gloria
Baker, STMA] 

10/19-21* -- Regional Chief Rangers' Conference, Omaha, NE.  [Tom Thompson,
RAD/MWRO] 

10/25-29 -- Archeology for Managers, Hot Springs, AR.  Sponsored by Mather
Employee Development Center and the University of Nevada-Reno. 
Tuition is $250.  Contact your employee development officer
regarding nomination due dates. [Gloria Baker, STMA] 

10/27-30* -- "Cave Management Into the Twenty-First Century", National Cave
Management Symposium, Carlsbad, NM.  Papers to be presented on
Federal Cave Resources Protection Act regulations, bat
management, cave restoration and formation repair, biodiversity
inventories, and related issues.  Contact: Dale Pate, Cave
Resource Specialist, Carlsbad Caverns NP, 3225 National Parks
Highway, Carlsbad, NM 88220 (505-785-2104).  [Dale Pate, CACA]

11/1-5 -- Issues in the Public Interpretation of Archeological Materials
and Sites, Portland, OR.  Tuition is $300.  Contact your
employee development officer for application information. 
[Gloria Baker, STMA] 

11/1-3 -- Fourth National Research Conference on Pesticides, Richmond, VA. 
Sponsored by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center. 
Contact: Dr. Diana Weigman, Virginia Water Resources Research
Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 617
North Main St., Blacksburg, VA 24060-3397 (703-231-5624). 
[Steve Cinnamon, MWRO] 

11/4-7 -- "The Future of America's Rivers: A Celebration of the 25th
Anniversary of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act",
Arlington, VA.  Contact: JT&A, Inc., ATTN: Jennifer Paugh, 1000
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 802, Washington, DC 20036.  [Janet
Wise, RMRO] 

11/8-9 -- Leadership for the Future, training course, Cavalier Hotel,
Virginia Beach, VA.  Situational leadership course, sponsored by
Association of National Park Rangers and presented by Omega, a
management consulting company.  Contact: Jeff Karraker, Capulin
Volcano.  [Jeff Karraker, CAVO] 

11/17-22* -- National Interpreters Workshop, Hyatt Regency Crystal City,
Arlington, VA.  Sponsored by National Association for
Interpretation.  Contact: Julie Carroll, Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission, Meadowside Nature Center,
5100 Meadowside Lane, Rockville, MD 20855 (301-924-5965; TDD
301-924-5939).  [Mike Gurling, OLYM] 

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady on travel (8/30-9/1).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Martin at MSPB hearing (8/29-
9/1); Berkowitz conducting weapons tests at FLETC (8/25-9/5); Dickerhoof at
meeting (8/30-9/3); Marriott on AL (8/25-9/5). 

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Gale at USFWS Region 4 emergency response
planning meeting (8/30-9/3); Farrel at International Association of Fire
Chiefs annual meeting (8/28-9/3); Hurd on AL (8/30-9/3).

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