RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, November 4, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-779 - North Cascades (Washington) - Follow-up on Poaching Operation

Two more would-be poachers were arrested in the interagency anti-poaching
operation which has been underway for several weeks along the Highway 20
corridor in Ross Lake.  The two were arrested on October 31st for shooting
at a remote-control movable deer decoy which had been set up along the
highway.  Their weapons were seized and they face state charges of hunting
with the aid of artificial light.  [Dave Spirtes, CR, NOCA, 11/3]

93-791 - Yellowstone (Wyoming) - Pursuit, Search and Arrest of Felon

Around 10:30 p.m. on November 3rd, Mammoth ranger Keith Young spotted a car
in Gardiner, Montana, which matched the description of a vehicle reported
stolen in Bozeman earlier in the day.  When Young turned to follow the
vehicle, which was occupied by three males who were reported to be armed,
the car took off into the park.  A controlled pursuit ensued in which Young
unsuccessfully attempted to maintain visual contact with the stolen Q45
Infinity, which at times hit speeds over 80 mph.  Rangers prepared to
intercept the vehicle at Norris junction and force it toward a roadblock at
Madison junction, but the driver of the Infinity turned the car around when
he saw their cruisers and headed back north toward Mammoth.  It was
eventually found abandoned near Apollinaris Spring.  A ground search was
begun which employed over 20 Yellowstone rangers and a police dog team and
negotiator from the Gallatin County sheriff's office.  One suspect, a 15-
year-old boy, walked out to the road and was captured without incident. 
Just before 3 a.m., the dog team located the other two suspects, aged 14 and
18, in a wooded area not far from the road.  Although initially unresponsive
to demands to surrender, the pair gave up when confronted by the barking dog
and the armed rangers.  State charges for grand theft auto are pending. 
[CRO, YELL, 11/3]

93-792 - Statue of Liberty (New York) - EMS Incident; Life Saved

During an evening event at Ellis Island on October 30th, W.W.,
53, of Rye, New Hampshire, suffered a full coronary arrest.  Ranger/EMT Kurt
Petersen began CPR and was able to restore W.W.'s pulse and breathing;
ranger/EMT Andy Lewis and park secretary/EMT Krista Callahan helped continue
CPR until a Jersey City ambulance company arrived on scene and transported
W.W. to a local hospital.  W.W. signed himself out of the hospital the
next day against his doctor's advice.  [Scott Pfeninger, CR, STLI, 11/1]

93-793 - Scotts Bluff (Nebraska) - EMS Incident; Serious Snake Bite

Four-year-old J.W. was climbing in some loose rocks along Saddle
Rock Trail while on a hike with his father on the afternoon of October 21st
when he was bitten three times on the fingers of his left hand by a juvenile
rattlesnake.  He was taken to a local hospital, where he was given 20 vials
of anti-venom and placed in the ICU.  J.W. had surgery on his left hand
and arm several days later, and is now making a complete recovery.  An
unusual aspect of the incident is that the snake was still active despite
two measurable snowfalls and subfreezing temperatures earlier in the month. 
[Robert Manasek, ACR, SCBL, 11/1]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level II

2) FIRE SUMMARY

State  Agency     Area            Fire              11/3    11/4   Status

 WA    USFS     Wenatchee      * King Bee             -       600  CN 11/5
       State    Benton Cty.    * Red Mountain         -     2,000  CL
               
 OR    BLM      Vale           * Vale Butte           -       515  CN 11/4
       BIA      Warm Springs   * Mill Creek           -       100  CN 11/3

 CA    County   Ventura          Greenmeadow     43,844    43,521  CND
                Los Angeles      Topanga         33,000    35,000  NEC
       State    Riverside        Repplier         8,000     8,000  CN 11/4
                San Diego        Old Coach        1,600     1,600  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 - Initial attack and large fire activity increased in the
Northwest and northern Rockies yesterday due to high winds.  Firefighters
are meeting containment targets on southern California fires despite high
winds.  Few resources were mobilized nationally.

4 PROGNOSIS - Surface high pressure will continue to weaken over the Great
Basin, which will cause pressure gradients and associated winds to decrease
in southern California.  That area will be sunny and warm with local
easterly winds to 15 mph in the eastern mountains and El Cahon pass area,
changing to onshore winds by afternoon.  The potential for escaped initial
attack and large fires will decrease as winds subside along the coast.

[NIFCC Intelligence Section, 11/4]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Dinosaur (Colorado) - Stream Restoration

Following four years of monitoring and planning, park and WASO staff have
successfully restored a small stream in Hog Canyon to a native channel atop
an alluvial fan.  The stream had been deeply incised in an artificial
channel for agricultural purposes for over 50 years.  The purpose of the
stream restoration was to preserve and increase habitat for the threatened
Ute ladies tresses orchid, restore and maintain wet meadow and riparian
communities, and reestablish natural fluvial processes in the canyon.  This
relocation is regarded as experimental until further monitoring documents
that no impacts have occurred to existing water rights immediately
downstream.  If the water yield from Hog Canyon does not diminish, the
relocation will become permanent.  [Stephen Petersburg, RMS, DINO]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Dickerhoof at Pacific Northwest
chief rangers' conference and on park site visits (11/1-11/4); Marriott at
Alaska chief rangers' conference (11/2-11/6).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Broyles at faculty meeting for fire management
for agency administrators (11/1-11/5); Farrel at federal fire forum meeting
(11/1-11/4); Botti, Berg and Clark at FIREPRO steering committee meeting
(11/1-11/6); Zimmerman at post-season fire management meeting with BLM
(11/1-11/2); Crabtree at information management committee meeting (11/2-
11/5).

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