NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, October 6, 1994

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

93-870 - Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico) - Follow-up on Bomb Threat 

On September 19th, Y.C., a former employee of Cavern Supply
Company, a park concessioner, pled guilty in state court to making the bomb
threat that caused the evacuation of the caverns on December 31, 1993.  She was
sentenced to 90 days imprisonment, beginning on January 1st.  The case has also
gone before the federal grand jury in Albuquerque and federal charges are
pending.  [Joe O'Haver, LES, CACA, 10/5]

94-171 - Padre Island (Texas) - Follow-up on Drug Seizure

Six men who were arrested on April 15th for marijuana trafficking in the park
have pleaded guilty and been sentenced in federal court.  Vicente Diaz, the
group's leader, received a sentence of 27 months in prison; the remaining six
received sentences ranging from nine to 19 months.  One had his probation
revoked.  T.B., who was arrested on July 26, 1993 for marijuana
trafficking, also pleaded guilty in federal court recently; he was sentenced to
27 months in prison.  [Daniel Wirth, CI, PAIS, 10/4]

94-589 - Rocky Mountain (Colorado) - Pursuit; Felony Arrest

While conducting a routine traffic stop on the afternoon of September 22nd,
ranger Kevin Crider discovered that the vehicle had been entered in NCIC as
stolen from Alabama.  The report also indicated that a .22 revolver was in the
vehicle at the time of the theft.  The driver, J.G., 21, of Alabama,
took off while the check was being run; Crider and ranger Doug Ridley pursued
him down a winding, 15-mile stretch of Trail Ridge Road, the highest
continuously paved highway in the contiguous United States.  J.G.
subsequently crashed through a gate on the Continental Divide that had been
closed as a roadblock, stopped his car at the Colorado River trailhead, then
fled on foot.  Crider, Ridley and several West Unit rangers eventually caught
and arrested him.  J.G. was charged with unsafe operation, felony vehicular
eluding, and felony transportation of a stolen vehicle.  State of Alabama
charges are pending.  The .22 revolver was recovered during the impoundment of
the vehicle.  [Dispatch, ROMO, 10/3]

94-590 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York) - Arson Threats
  
On the morning of September 30th, a series of telephone calls were received at
the FDR Library in which the caller threatened to burn down President
Roosevelt's home.  The caller identified himself as a member of the World
Canadian Mounted Police and the Irish Republican Army.  Security measures were
stepped up and the FBI was informed of the incident.  Additional commissioned
rangers were dispatched from the Sandy Hook unit of Gateway.  No incidents
occurred over the next four days.  The calls were traced to a phone booth in
Newburgh, New York.  The incident is still under investigation.  [Nick Valhos,
ROVA, 10/5]

94-591 - Shenandoah (Virginia) - MVA with Fatality

N.Z., 43, of New York City, was driving his BMW motorcycle on
the northbound side of Skyline Drive on the afternoon of October 3rd when he
failed to negotiate a curve near milepost 87 and was thrown from the bike into
the path of a southbound Crown Victoria operated by Morton Bradski, 76, of
Oceanside, California.  N.Z. became entrapped under the sedan and had to
be extricated by rangers.  ALS was begun and continued until rescuers were
instructed to cease resuscitation efforts by medical authorities.  Bradski was
taken to a local hospital, where he was evaluated and released.  Rangers are
attempting to determine if drugs and excessive speed were contributing factors. 
A CISD briefing has been scheduled.  Rangers from the Statue of Liberty are
assisting in efforts to find next of kin.  [Clayton Jordan, SPR, SHEN, 10/4]

94-592 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Suicide

On September 23rd, J.W., 71, a resident of the community of Prince within
the park, stopped his vehicle on the Prince Bridge over the New River, got out,
and jumped off the bridge, falling about 100 feet to the river below.  A
passerby pulled him from the river onto a rock in the water.  Paramedics began
CPR and continued it through transport to the hospital, where J.W. was
pronounced dead.  J.W., who was well known to patrol rangers in the area, had
been suffering for many years from a long-term illness.  [Duncan Hollar, DR,
Sandstone District, 10/4]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - II

2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY

                                                     Wed      Thu    %   Est
State    Area               Fire             IMT     10/5     10/6  Cont Cont

 MT    Kootenai NF      Koocanusa Cx          T2   15,890   15,890  100  CND  

 ID    Boise NF         Thunderbolt           T2   27,348   27,348   80  10/15
       Payette NF       Corral Creek -
                         Blackwell Cx         T1  171,509  171,509   67  10/12
                        Chicken Cx            T1  102,380  102,443   75  10/31

HEADING NOTES:

     Fire     * = newly reported fire (on this report). Cx = complex.
     IMT      T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST = State Team.
     % Con    Percent of fire contained.
     Est Con  Estimated containment date.  NEC = no estimated date of
              containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report.

3) FIRES -

                NPS     BIA      BLM     FWS    States     USFS      Total

Number            2       5        0       0        40        8         55
Acres Burned      5     203        0       0        97        1        306

4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -

               Crews     Engines     Helicopters     Airtankers     Overhead

Federal           61        65           23               7            574
Non-federal       17        32            9               0            256

5) SITUATION - Cool temperatures, high humidities and scattered precipitation
continue to help firefighters in their efforts to contain large fires.  These
conditions are also causing a decrease in initial attack.  Demobilization
through NICC remains steady.

6) OUTLOOK - Fire activity is expected to remain low.

[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 10/6] 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

St. Croix (Minnesota/Wisconsin) - Zebra Mussels

On September 16th, approximately 35 adult zebra mussels were found attached to
the drive unit of a private boat docked at a marina located on the St. Croix
river.  Identification was confirmed by representatives from the Fish and
Wildlife Service, who then contacted the NPS, lead agency for the St. Croix
zebra mussel response program on the St. Croix riverway.  Park resource
management staff examined the boat and made immediate arrangements to have a
dive team determine the extent of the contamination.  Tissue samples from the
mussels indicated that they were populations from the 1993 season.  The dive
team conducted a survey of the site, and another diver examined adjacent boats,
dock slips, and other suitable substrates.  No additional adult zebra mussels
were found.  The owner of the boat reported that he had moored in Lake City for
three days in June before returning to his home port on the St. Croix.  That
area of the Mississippi is heavily infested with zebra mussels.  Dives made on
September 27th led to the discovery of a few adult specimens on two other boats
taken from the river for the winter.  The park is currently working to locate
owners and determine their recent boating activities.  Stationary monitoring
devices have been located at the marina and in adjacent stretches of the river
throughout the summer.  These monitoring stations, which are inspected on a
bi-monthly basis, have all had negative reports.  Active monitoring activities
utilizing qualified divers and park and Fish and Wildlife staff also take place
on a monthly basis in this area; these reports have also been negative.  The
park provides habitat to 43 native mussel species, two of which are
federally-listed endangered species.  The Hudson location is within a quarter
mile of a relocation effort involving Higgins' Eye mussel, which is federally
endangered, and a significant mussel bed containing 33 different species of
various age classes.  Management efforts to insure that an infestation does not
occur will continue.  Intensive monitoring dives and boat checks will take
place at the marina through October.  [Sue Jennings, RMS, SACN]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

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