RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Friday, October 1, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-746 - Great Smokies (Tennessee/North Carolina) - Car Clout Arrest

On September 21st, a lookout bulletin was posted in the park for B.J.P.,
50, a known car clouter who was believed to be in the area.  
Rangers spotted B.J.P. in the Laurel Falls parking area on the afternoon
of the 27th and held him for questioning.  During an interview, B.J.P.
confessed to the burglary of a vehicle in the park on the 25th.  A consent
search of his vehicle led to the recovery of stolen property.  B.J.P. was
arrested for theft of personal property (18 USC 661); parole/probation
revocations are pending by federal and state authorities.  This is the third
time B.J.P. has been arrested for car clouting in the park.  The two
priors occurred in May, 1985, and in November, 1989.  "Larceny from Motor
Vehicles", a training film on car clouting which FLETC staff made in the
park in 1991, was based loosely on B.J.P.'s prior criminal activity.  [Bill
Acree, CI, GRSM, 9/30]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              9/30      10/1   Status

 WA    USFS   Wenatchee          Meadow Crk - T2     150       410   CN 10/2

 CA    USFS   Los Padres         Marre - T1       30,500    31,000   CN 10/5

 UT    USFS   Manti-LaSal      * Flat Canyon - T2      -         ?   NEC

 FL    State  -                * Rodman Bomb           -       500   CND

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 - Containment strategy    NEC - No estimate of containment
  CND - Contained              CN (date) - Expected date of containment

3) ANALYSIS - Resources were dispatched yesterday to several human-caused
and escaped fires in the northern Rockies, the Northwest and the eastern
Great Basin.  Significant progress was made on the Marre Fire.

4) PROGNOSIS - A red flag watch for high winds has been issued for western
Washington and northwestern Oregon for tonight.  Fire potential will
continue in California due to sunny, hot and dry weather.  It will be sunny
and slightly cooler in Utah, Nevada and northern Arizona; little fire
activity is therefore anticipated.  Fire activity will continue in the
Northwest because of sunny and warm weather and east winds.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 10/1]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Upper Delaware (New York) - Reappearance of Striped Bass 

The best indicator of improving water quality and fisheries habitat in the
Delaware over the last 50 years has been the return of two highly-prized
migratory sport fish.  American shad, which disappeared from the Upper
Delaware before World War II because of intense pollution of the river
around Philadelphia, has returned due to improved water quality in that
section of the Delaware.  Over the past month, rumors flourished along the
Upper Delaware that Atlantic striped bass had also found their way up the
river as far as the middle of the park around Narrowsburg, New York.  During
a recent fish sampling operation for small mouth bass and walleye, state
fisheries personnel and rangers caught and released two Atlantic striped
bass, one 36 inches long and the other 42 inches long.  State authorities
had no previous record of this species in the Upper Delaware River Basin. 
It remains to be seen whether Atlantic striped bass will be found in any
numbers along the Upper Delaware, but its very presence gives strong
additional proof that pollution abatement efforts near urban areas along
this river are working.  The fisheries management program for the upper
third of the Delaware River Basin is a cooperative interagency effort among
two units of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, three state
fisheries programs, and several U.S. Fish and Wildlife research efforts. 
[Malcolm Ross, Jr., CRM, UPDE]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Henry at Fifth World Wilderness
Conference (9/22-10/4). 

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Broyles at RX90 "burn boss" steering committee
meeting (9/27-10/1).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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