NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, November 4, 1994

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

94-623 - American Memorial (Saipan) - Follow-up on Typhoon Zelda

Typhoon Zelda passed 85 north of Saipan yesterday around 10 a.m. PST.  The
Federal Emergency Management Agency's center in San Francisco reported that
winds reached 103 mph with gusts of 125 mph.  Coastal flooding occurred on the
island and 18 injuries were reported.  Considerable wind damage was also
reported.  No further details are available from the park.  [Ken Hay, RAD/WRO,
11/3]

94-627 - Great Smokies (North Carolina/Tennessee) - Poaching

Park rangers have been actively investigating and/or prosecuting a variety of
natural resource poaching cases over the last few months in conjunction with
the U.S. attorney, state wildlife agencies, the Forest Service, the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other agencies:

* On August 27th, ranger Pat Patten apprehended three suspects in the
illegal taking of plants for commercial sale.  A total of 235 ginseng
plants had been picked in the park.

* Rangers Doug Ivey and Paul Williams investigated an illegal trophy kill
of a large white tail in the Big Creek area on September 7th; that
investigation continues.

* Officers from North Carolina's Wildlife Resources Commission were
assisted by ranger Joe Ashley in apprehending one suspect in illegal
black bear hunting within the park on September 10th.  A second suspect
eluded apprehension.  An illegal firearm was involved.

* On September 14th, ranger Glenn Martin apprehended two suspects in the
illegal taking of plants for commercial sale.  A total of 250 ginseng
plants were recovered.

* Rangers Garrett Moynihan and Jeff Smith apprehended one suspect in the
illegal taking of 166 ginseng plants for commercial sale on September
15th.

* Rangers Brad Headley, Al Miller, Jeff Smith and Bentley Tahquette
apprehended two suspects on October 3rd for illegally taking plants for
commercial sale.  A total of 349 ginseng plants had been harvested.

* Rangers Lamon Brown and John Garrison provided assistance to the area
interagency resources protection task force in a sting operation
targeting an illegal ginseng dealer on October 4th.

* On October 7th, rangers Glenn Martin, Brad Headley and Lamon Brown
conducted an investigation which lead them to a cache of 644 illegally
taken ginseng plants.

* Ranger Doug Ivey investigated an illegal trophy kill of a white tail deer
in the Cataloochee area on October 20th.

[Jason Houck, CR, GRSM, 11/3]

94-528 - Canyonlands (Utah) - Assist on NPS-Related ARPA Arrest

On the morning of October 28th, Canyonlands rangers assisted BLM special agents
and Utah State officers in the execution of a felony arrest warrant on E.S.
for an ARPA violation that occurred the previous week south of the park
on BLM lands.  A search warrant of E.S.'s property was executed at the time
of his arrest.  A loaded weapon, marijuana and drug paraphernalia were found in
his residence.  E.S. was charged in 1992 with an ARPA violation within
Canyonlands - a case that is still pending.  [Larry Van Slyke, CR, CANY, 10/28]

94-529 - Mount Rainier (Washington) - Possible Suicide

Just after midnight on November 2nd, ranger Rick Kirschner found the body of a
20-year-old woman in the back seat of a vehicle in the parking lot of the
National Park Inn.  Kirschner was checking the vehicle because it had been
parked overnight there for at least two nights.  Registration checks revealed
the vehicle was associated with a missing persons report filed by the Pierce
County sheriff.  Rangers entered the vehicle and determined the woman was
deceased, possibly from an overdose of prescription medication.  The exact
cause of death remains unknown.  An investigation into the death is underway. 
[Randy Brooks, MORA, 11/4]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

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