RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

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

Day/Date:  Thursday, November 18, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-806 - Ozark (Missouri) - Follow-up on Flooding

Although no employees or visitors were killed or injured in the major flood
which struck Ozark on Sunday, extensive search efforts are underway to
assure that the many hunters in the park have made it out safely.  Initial
assessments also show that damage to park roads, trails and facilities has
been extensive.  Waters have not yet receded, and rain is still predicted
for the area.  The following damage has been recorded to date:

* Upper Current District - Between 15 and 20 roads were washed out in their
  drainages.  The sewage system was interrupted, but is now back on line. 
  Eight comfort stations were damaged and numerous picnic tables, dumpsters
  and traffic counters were lost.  Sign damage is extensive.  Eight
  vehicles, 11 recreational vehicles, four canoes and four johnboats 
  belonging to hunters were lost or damaged.  

* Jacks Fork District - Road damage is extensive in stream drainages.  Water
  and electrical service was interrupted; the sewage system and central
  control panels for plant and grinders are out.  Fourteen comfort stations
  are under more than ten feet of water.  Harvey's Motel is under six to
  seven feet of water; Harvey's Store had three feet of water in its living
  quarters; the Alley Center is under 18 inches of water and water has
  gotten into the new air conditioning system.  The fee booth quarters and
  office had three feet of water inside and lost appliances and furniture. 
  Many picnic tables, lantern posts, grills, signs, trash cans and dumpsters
  were swept away.  Asphalt has been peeled away in one loop of Alley
  campground.  Three vehicles and a camper were lost or damaged.

* Lower Current District - Road damage is extensive in drainages.  Utility
  systems have been seriously damaged and electricity is out.  The sewage
  system is inoperable.  The Big Spring shelter collapsed, the amphitheater
  projection building washed away, and numerous comfort stations are
  underwater.  The biology lab is under four feet of water. Quilt cabin and
  the johnboat shed have shifted on their footings, the Powdermill visitor
  center and ranger station are under two feet of water, Big Springs fee
  booth is under four feet of water, the Two Rivers concession store is
  under four feet of water, and the Big Spring Lodge reception area is under
  a foot of water.  Equipment was lost throughout the area.  The subdistrict
  ranger at Powdermill was stranded with his family without utilities for a
  day and a half; power was interrupted at another six employee housing
  units in the district.  Seven vehicles and three campers were lost or
  damaged.  Upwards of 250 hunters were stranded in the park; some made it
  out yesterday.  

Further details will be reported when received.  [Superintendent, OZAR,
11/16]

93-807 - National Capital Parks (District of Columbia) - Armed Robbery

On the evening of November 14th, a Park Police officer observed two men
committing an armed robbery in Fort Totten Park.  The officer intervened,
and one of the robbers fired a shot at him.  The officer returned gunfire. 
No one was injured, and the robbers fled the area.  A search of the area
proved fruitless.  An investigation is underway.  [Lt. Richard Munsky, USPP,
11/16]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Effigy Mounds (Iowa) - Bald Eagle Rescue

On November 11th, park staff received a report that a bald eagle was
struggling to fly along the Yellow River.  The bird was rescued, taken to
the Village Creek Raptor and Rehabilitation Center, then transported by Fish
and Wildlife Service personnel to the Upper Mississippi Wildlife and Fish
Refuge in Minneapolis.  The eagle, a six-year-old female adult, apparently
hit a power line with one of its wings, which prevented it from flying. 
This is the third injured bald eagle which the park staff has recovered in
the past two years.  There has been a noticeable increase in the population
of bald eagles along the Mississippi and its tributaries over the last few
years.  Resource managers are finding that this increase is being paralleled
by an increase in the number of sick and injured eagles.  [Don Wollenhaupt,
CR, EFMO]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Dickerhoof at law enforcement for
managers training course (11/14-11/15) and at VRAP meeting (11/16-11/19);
Smith at VRAP meeting (11/15-11/19); Sisto at surplus wildlife meeting and
at climbing conference (11/15-11/19).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Broyles at NWCG training work team meeting
(11/15-11/20); Zimmerman at SERO fire plan preparation meeting (11/15-
11/19); Gale on AL (11/15-11/16); Farrel at IAFC accreditation workshop
(11/18-11/21).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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