NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, February 1, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-37 - Voyageurs (Minnesota) - Rescue

At the request of the Ontario Provincial Police, park rangers from Voyageurs
directed the rescue of an International Falls woman who was seriously injured
in a snowmobile accident on Rainy Lake on Saturday, January 28th.  The accident
occurred near Breezy Island in Stokes Bay on the Canadian side of the border
and 30 miles from the nearest road.  D.P. was riding with a group
of six when her snowmobile struck a rock and went airborne for about 40 feet,
dumping her onto the ground.  D.P. subsequently told her friends that she
could not move her legs.  Rangers Larry Johnson, David Little and Mike Larsen,
all emergency medical technicians, responded, stabilized her and requested a
life flight helicopter because of the possibility of a spinal injury.  Due to
bad weather, which prevailed throughout the incident, a life flight helicopter
from Duluth (150 miles south) was unable to get to the park, so arrangements
were made for a life flight helicopter from Kenora, Ontario (100 miles
northwest of the park).  Park pilot Scott Evans flew the park airplane to meet
the helicopter and guided it to the scene.  The patient was loaded on the
helicopter and transported to International Falls Hospital.   She was later
taken to St Mary's Hospital in Duluth, where she is being treated for a
fractured vertebrae.  [Bruce McKeeman, CR, VOYA, 1/30]

95-38 - Joshua Tree (California) - Carjacking Arrests

Ranger Jeff Ohlfs stopped R.G., 21, and L.H., 21, for a minor
traffic violation at Cholla Cactus Garden on January 13th.  An NCIC check
revealed that the vehicle had been taken in a carjacking in Twentynine Palms
early that morning (the first in the city's history) and that the subjects were
considered armed and dangerous.  Ohlfs and ranger Colin Smith arrested the pair
without incident.  A search of the vehicle lead to the discovery of a firearm
and cash in a nylon stocking.  R.G. and L.H. were turned over to the San
Bernadino sheriff's department, where they are being held on $1,000,000 bail
each.  [CRO, JOTR, 1/30]

95-39 - Lake Mead (Nevada) - Falling Fatality

J.C., 19, an airman from Nellis Air Force Base, was climbing with
friends in the East River Mountains on January 28th when he decided to check
out a cave below them.  On his way back to the group, he reached for a rock
that gave way, fell 60 feet, then tumbled another 40 feet.  He died of severe
head trauma.  The park's SAR team responded and evacuated the body.  [CRO,
LAME, 1/30]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Non-Hazardous Solid Waste Dumping - The Department of Justice Environmental
Crimes Section has contacted the NPS to learn more about non-hazardous waste
dumping on our lands.  They are interested in helping us prosecute these cases
under 18 USC 641 (conversion of government property) or 18 USC 1361
(depredation of government property).  Hazardous waste dumping is already being
addressed under the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  Most
dumping now occurring is of a non-hazardous nature, but has not been given
adequate attention.  The states have traditionally had the lead responsibility
for addressing this concern but have not given it adequate attention in terms
of strong laws and/or enforcement resources.  If you have information you wish
to share with DOJ, please send a cc:Mail or fax message (202-260-9582) to Einar
Olsen, Division of Ranger Activities and Resource Management, NCRO.

MEMORANDA

"Training Our Supervisors", from Deputy Director Reynolds to all employees,
transmitted via Director's Bulletin Board on January 31st.  The full text
follows:

"At the November meeting of the National Leadership Council, the
recommendations of the NPS Training Task Force were accepted by the Council, in
principle.  Among the recommendations approved was a change in priority for
Servicewide training during FY 1995 and potentially into FY 1996.  One of the
priorities includes a process to focus some contemporary leadership training
for all NPS supervisors.  One of the Training Task Force work groups is
currently designing this program, which will include both leadership profiling
and training.  It will be coordinated with the recommendations of the
Management Succession Planning Work Group, which are currently undergoing broad
review, and with other related career development efforts.

"Please be aware that current plans call for every NPS supervisor (from bottom
to top) to attend a one-week seminar.  Attendance will be mandatory.  Seminars
will probably begin in April and will be scheduled throughout the remainder of
the year.  Although costs to attend these seminars will have to be borne by
benefitting accounts, seminars will be scheduled in locations that will be as
close as possible to concentrations of NPS supervisors, and in locations that
are as low as possible in terms of per diem expense.

"Program managers should start now in planning for funding to meet this
requirement.  We recognize the impact of this on programs already stretched to
or beyond limits, but we believe that the benefits to be derived from this
training on the well-being of our employees is well worth the sacrifice.  

"You will be receiving additional specific information about the seminars and
related activities as plans become more firm."


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

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