NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, May 13, 1994

Broadcast: By 0930 ET

INCIDENTS

No incident reports received.

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) FIRE SITUATION - Preparedness Level I

2) FIRE SUMMARY - No significant fires.

3) ANALYSIS - Fire activity decreased yesterday throughout the Southwest,
South and East.  No activity was reported elsewhere.

4) PROGNOSIS - Warming temperatures and scattered thundershowers will
increase fire activity in Minnesota and Michigan.  Scattered thundershowers
associated with a warming trend will increase initial attack activity in the
Southwest.  Fire activity is expected to remain low to moderate in the South
as mostly cloudy conditions continue.

[NIFC Incident Management Situation Report, 5/13]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Badlands (South Dakota) - Black-Footed Ferret EIS

The notice of availability of the final environmental impact statement
(FEIS) for black-footed ferret reintroduction into the Badlands and Conata
Basin in South Dakota was published in the Federal Register on May 2nd.  The
preferred alternative reintroduces the ferrets into a black-tailed prairie
dog colony complex in the park and in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland. 
An area of about 1.2 million acres is delineated within which the legal
status of the ferret is changed from endangered to non-essential
experimental to allow for greater management flexibility.  A reintroduction
area of about 42,000 acres on federally managed lands, which currently
contains about 8,000 acres of prairie dog colonies, would become the focus
for releases.  The purpose is to use experimental techniques to establish a
free-ranging, self-sustaining population of black-footed ferrets as part of
the national recovery effort.  The NPS, Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife
Service will issue separate records of decision within the next 30 days. 
These will determine whether each agency will proceed with implementation of
the preferred or other alternative and will briefly discuss the rationale
behind the agencies' respective decisions.  Copies of the FEIS are available
from Doug Searls, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 420 South Garfield Avenue,
Suite 400, Pierre, SD 57501-5408.  [Bruce Bessken, RMS, BADL]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Holsters - NPS/FLETC is currently completely out of right-handed Blocker
holsters, and can not yet say when the next shipment will arrive.  They are
shipping the Desantis pancake holsters so that parks can go ahead with
scheduled transition training and are maintaining a log of how many Blocker
holsters that parks will need.  Once the Blocker holsters arrive, they will
begin backfilling orders according to the log.  They stress that there is
nothing that can be done to get the holsters more quickly and ask that
ordering parks bear with them until the orders arrive.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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