NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, April 4, 1994

Broadcast: By 0900 ET

INCIDENTS

94-145 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Serious Injury

Personnel from the Arizona Department of Transportation were plowing Highway
67 outside the park's North Rim on March 30th when they came upon D.F.S.,
31, walking barefoot.  D.F.S. said that she'd been trying to reach the
North Rim (closed during the winter due to heavy snows) and had been walking
in the forest for approximately two weeks.  She said that she'd become
disoriented during the previous week's snowstorm, that she'd lost her pack
and food, and that she hadn't eaten in two weeks.  Responding rangers found
that both D.F.S.'s feet had severe frostbite.  She was flown by park
helicopter to Flagstaff Medical Center.  D.F.S.'s condition is serious;
amputation of most of her toes and the front portion of her left foot
appears inevitable.  Investigation has revealed that D.F.S. has a history of
mental disability and drug abuse.  [Dispatch, GRCA, 4/1]

94-146 - Yosemite (California) - Drowning

Park dispatch received a 911 call at 4:30 p.m. on the afternoon of March
29th in which the caller stated that a man who had been boulder-hopping in
the Merced River - later identified as M.S., 19, of Greeley,
Colorado - had slipped and fallen into the water, then had been swept away
by the current.  Witnesses said they saw M.S. resurface once before
disappearing a second time in the fast-moving water.  Rescue personnel
arrived on scene within minutes, but were unable to locate M.S. until
about 5:15 p.m., when he was found face-down and submerged about 200 yards
below the Vernal Falls bridge.  Basic life support was begun on M.S. and
was continued until arrival at the clinic, where further measures were taken
to revive him and raise his body temperature.  All efforts to revive him
failed, though, and he was pronounced dead just after 8:00 p.m.  M.S.
was a student a Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego and was in the park
on spring break.  [Greg Jablonski, YOSE, 4/1]

94-147 - Great Falls (Virginia) - Rescue

On Saturday, April 2nd, S.H. was making a technical climb on the
Aid Box route when he fell approximately 40 feet from a point near the top
of the climb to a rock ledge, landing on his climbing partner.  The incident
was reported to park staff by on-duty members of the Fairfax County fire and
rescue department, who were engaged in physical fitness training nearby at
the time.  Park staff and additional fire and rescue personnel responded,
stabilized S.H., and evacuated him to the main parking lot, where he was
picked up by Eagle I, the US Park Police helicopter, and taken to a
hospital.  S.H. experienced some loss of sensation to his lower
extremities, but retained motor functions.  The cause of the accident has
not yet been determined.  Director Kennedy and his family were in the park
at the time and observed most of the operation.  [Gary Pollock, Acting Site
Manager, GRFA, 4/3]

94-148 - Olympic (Washington) - Oil Spill

Tar balls, probably from an oil spill in the Columbia River last winter,
have been washing up on the park's beaches since February 26th.  A
contractor was brought in and began removing the oil at Second Beach on
March 3rd, and cleanup operations have been underway ever since.  The Coast
Guard has opened a $5,000 cleanup account.  Because of the age of the tar
balls, it may be impossible to obtain samples with enough essential
"fingerprint" criteria to determine the exact source of the spill.  [Mark
Forbes, RAD/PNRO, 4/1]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Washington Office - Water Rights Compact Signed

On January 31st, a compact between the State of Montana and the U.S. was
signed at the Department of the Interior.  Signatories included Secretary
Babbitt, the governor of Montana, and the acting assistant attorney general
(on behalf of the attorney general).  This act culminated 14 months of
active negotiations which in turn followed a process that began in 1973 when
Montana initiated a statewide water rights adjudication in which the court
hears evidence from all parties claiming rights to use water and rules on
the validity of all claims.  The compact covers Yellowstone, Glacier, and
Big Hole.  The remaining two NPS units in the state, Little Bighorn and
Bighorn Canyon, will be negotiated under terms similar to the other three
units. The agreement covers reserved rights for instream flow, ranging from
the existing instream flows at Big Hole to 95 to 100 percent reserved
instream flows for Yellowstone and Glacier; consumptive use for both present
and future visitor and administrative uses; and hydrothermal and ground
water protection, i.e. ground water sufficient to maintain instream flows
and to protect the hydrothermal system in Yellowstone; closes watersheds
adjacent to the park to additional off-park water development; and
establishes mechanisms to monitor and further protect the Yellowstone
hydrothermal system.  This compact shows that protection can be achieved
without litigation, and also demonstrates that the state of Montana shares
the NPS's commitment to the protection of park resources.  The Service is
how trying to begin similar efforts in other western states.  For more
information, please contact Owen Williams, Chief, Water Rights Branch, Water
Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO (303-225-3505).

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

"Voluntary Separation Incentive Program", signed by Acting Director John
Reynolds on April 1st and sent to all employees.  Contains details on the
buyout provisions in the recently-passed Federal Workforce Restructuring Act
of 1994; stipulates that all applications must be received by close of
business on April 18th.  Because of the considerable Servicewide interest in
this buyout plan and the brevity of the response time, the full text of the
memorandum follows in a separate message.

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