NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, December 23, 1994

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

No incident reports received.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - Wildlife Surveys and Tagging

During the months of November and December, Arizona Game and Fish Department
(AGFD) biologists and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service
resource management personnel conducted two projects in and around Organ Pipe
Cactus.  The first was an aerial survey of the park's mountain ranges for
bighorn sheep.  About 60 animals were counted, most of them rams.  The
population appeared to be very healthy and doing well.  The second was the
capture and collaring of numerous Sonoran pronghorns (an endangered species) on
both the monument and the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.  This project
has been undertaken to enable biologists to monitor habitat range on both sides
of the border.  A summary report is being prepared by AGFD as a part of the
cooperative agreement underlying these surveys.  [Jon Arnold/Aniceto Olais,
ORPI]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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