NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, October 31, 1994

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

94-214 - Western Region - Follow-up on Arrest of Car Clouter

On Wednesday, October 27th, M.H. was found guilty of violation of
probation and possession of stolen property while on probation in a federal
probation hearing in Portland, Oregon.  Special agent Paul Ducasse represented
the National Park Service at the hearing and presented evidence concerning the
over 1,200 burglaries that M.H. had committed in National Park Service
and California state park campgrounds. Ducasse also presented information about
the approximately 9,000 items of stolen property and evidence seized following
the execution of a search warrant in May, 1994.  The recovered stolen property
had a minimum aggregate value of over $125,000.  The probation hearing examiner
(a federal judge) found M.H. guilty, said that he found there was
overwhelming evidence to believe M.H. was responsible for the thefts and
in possession of a significant amount of stolen property, and gave him to
maximum possible sentence of 50 months in custody.  M.H. will have to
serve an initial 27 months, which will automatically expand to 50 following his
conviction in any other court - a prospect deemed highly likely since
M.H. still faces felony charges in Oregon and in California, the latter
of which has a "three-strikes-you're-out" provision which makes M.H. a
probable candidate for a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.  M.H.
will likely be prosecuted in Oregon this year and in California in early 1995. 
Since his arrest, the number of car clouts in national and state parks has
decreased significantly; there hasn't been a single auto burglary with his M.O.
during that time.  M.H. is believed to have burglarized campgrounds in
California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, and possibly Idaho. 
The investigation which lead up to his arrest took approximately three years
and involved dozens of NPS rangers and investigators from all over the system. 
Ducasse was the lead investigator and coordinated the efforts of numerous
state, federal and local agencies, including the FBI and California and Oregon
State Parks.  Without his ability to conduct a consolidated effort, including
the final intensive surveillance which lead to M.H.'s arrest, it is
unlikely that M.H. would have been caught, and highly likely that he
would still be victimizing visitors to national, state and county parks.  [Phil
Ward, RCR, RAD/WRO, 10/28]

94-620 - Golden Gate (California) - Homicide

On the morning of October 26th, a golfer found the body of an unidentified
juvenile male near Eagle Point overlook.  The body exhibited signs of trauma. 
The death is thought to be gang related, and is being jointly investigated by
Park Police and San Francisco police department detectives.  [Lt. Jerry
McCarthy, USPP, 10/27]

94-621 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Rescue

On October 16th, J.T., 47, of Holton, Michigan, was kayaking on
the Upper Gauley River when he overturned in his kayak and failed to roll
back up or exit from his boat.  J.T. remained upside down in his
boat through Lost Paddle, a Class V+ rapid.  When pulled to the shore by
other boaters, he was unconscious and not breathing.  He was given CPR by
one of he boaters and regained consciousness.  Park rangers and EMS
personnel responded, placed J.T. on a backboard and ferried him across
the river by raft to a landing zone, where he was transported by helicopter to
Charleston Area Medical Center.  His condition continued to improve, and he was
released on October 18th.  [Greg Malcolm, SDR, Gauley Subdistrict, NERI, 10/27]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Yellowstone (Wyoming) - Wolf Restoration

Since the decision to restore wolves to the park and central Idaho was
announced on June 15th, much work has occurred toward beginning the transplant
of wolves from Canada to Idaho and Yellowstone this fall.  In order to help
structure the planning and completion of the many tasks that need to be done,
the park has formalized a resource team, using the incident command system
commonly used for wildfires and other major incidents.  The incident operation,
named "Wolfstock", has the following objectives:

  1. Plan and implement integrated actions to restore a gray wolf population
     to Yellowstone National Park.

  2. Top priorities are the safety and welfare of personnel associated with
     this project and the safety and welfare of wolves.

  3. Immediate focus will be site preparations, information management
     planning, and security planning.

Additional priorities are: close coordination between operations
sections, providing information of actions and progress of project to all
park employees, providing for close coordination with cooperating
agencies, providing opportunities for public information to the extent
that it does not compromise other critical objectives, minimizing effects
on other resources, and minimizing disruption of other park operations.

The incident commander is Wayne Brewster, deputy director of the Yellowstone
Center for Resources.  More updates will be forthcoming.  ["Yellowstone Wolf
Tracker", ICS team newsletter, YELL]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Management Assistants - WASO Personnel is interested in gathering some
information on management assistants in the National Park Service.  Since
management assistants are in several different series and at various grades,
there is no way to readily cull that information from existing databases.  If
you are a management assistant, please send your name, title (including
operational title), series, grade, location, and a brief (one or two sentence)
description of your duties via cc:Mail to WASO Ranger Activities.  The compiled
information will be shared with all who contribute in order to develop a
communications network among management assistants.  [Mary Martin,
Personnel/WASO]   

MEMORANDA

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