NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, January 26, 1994

Broadcast: By 0900 ET

INCIDENTS

94-30 - Big South Fork (Tennessee) - Poaching

On January 23rd, the park received an anonymous tip about illegal hunting
activity.  Rangers Kevin Bishop and Tim Grooms drove to the Stooping Oak
Ridge area of the park and found an unattended 1984 Ford four wheel drive
pickup at that location.  Grooms began surveillance of the area; after
several hours, he saw three armed men on an ATV and some dogs approaching
the vehicle.  The men were confronted and disarmed, and six dead hogs were
found tied on the ATV.  B.D., J.D. and G.D., all of Corbin,
Kentucky, were arrested for hunting and weapons violations.  All were
suspected of previous incidents of poaching in the park.  Investigation
revealed that the three brothers had hunted in the same area the previous
day and killed a large sow.  Because this animal was too large to carry out
of the park, it was buried in the snow.  The brothers had returned with the
ATV to retrieve the animal and shot and killed five smaller hogs at the same
time.  It appears that they used their dogs to locate and chase the hogs
before killing them.  Lacey Act violations may also have occurred, since
some of the hogs were killed in Tennessee, then transported into Kentucky as
the men were leaving the park.  All weapons, the ATV and the truck were
seized.  It's not certain whether the D.s intended to sell the meat or keep
it for themselves.  [CRO, BISO, 1/24]

94-31 - Delaware Water Gap (Pennsylvania/New Jersey) - Search and Rescue

Around 8 p.m. on the evening of January 22nd, park dispatch was contacted by
a woman who reported that her husband, E.M., 28, had gone skiing in
the Blue Mountain Lakes area and was about three hours overdue.  A hasty
search was initiated by rangers on cross-country skis.  E.M. was located
at 11:30 p.m. about a mile from his vehicle.  Rescuers had to drag a litter
through snow that was from three to four-feet deep in sub-zero temperatures
to evacuate E.M. to an ambulance, which then took him to a nearby
landing zone for helicopter evacuation.  E.M. suffered frostbite
injuries to his hands and feet and had a low core temperature of 84 degrees. 
He was not properly dressed for cross-county skiing, nor prepared for a
night out.  It's unlikely that he would have survived the night if he hadn't
been located and rescued.  [Doyle Nelson, CR, DEWA, 1/24]

94-32 - Jefferson National Expansion (Missouri) - EMS Incident; Life Saved

Around 2 a.m. on January 14th, rangers on routine patrol found a 38-year-old
homeless man who'd fallen about 15 feet off a freeway ramp on the south end
of the park.  The man, who said that he'd been lying there about an hour,
had sustained severe injuries and was unable to move.  He was wearing only a
thin pair of jeans, a medium-weight jacket and no gloves.  The temperature
was below zero at the time, with a wind chill factor of about - 20 degrees,
and the man was shivering uncontrollably and suffering from serious
hypothermia.  Park EMTs responded with equipment and blankets, and the
victim was stabilized until a city EMS unit arrived and transported him to a
local hospital.  It's estimated that he would not have survived longer than
another 45 minutes.  [John Weddle, CI, JEFF, 1/21]

94-33 - Statue of Liberty (New York) - Oil Spill

An oil sheen was observed around Liberty Island during a routine Coast Guard
overflight on January 21st.  Park staff subsequently found an unknown
quantity of oil under the park's docks.  Because a manhole and several fuel-
fill pipes are located in the dock area, it's suspected that the discharge
resulted from either a leaking underground storage tank or a faulty fuel
line.  OSHA-trained park hazmat emergency responders placed sorbent pads and
a sausage boom in and around the dock area.  Response activities are being
conducted in cooperation with the Coast Guard.  [Hank Brightman, RAD/NARO,
1/24]

94-34 - Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas) - Employee Charged with Theft of Funds

On January 19th, M.D., 28, a seasonal interpreter who'd been
working at LBJ since last May, was charged with theft of government monies
from the park's donation box.  Her employment was also terminated.  The
action came after a month-long investigation by the park's protection staff. 
M.D. worked as a seasonal at Cabrillo in 1991 before taking the position
at LBJ.  [Tony Bonanno, RCR, RAD/SWRO, 1/25]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

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