NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, February 3, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-43 - Mount Rainier (Washington) - Quake Impacts; Road Closure

The road to Paradise was closed on February 2nd and will remain closed until
crews locate and repair water lines which were damaged during the 5.0
earthquake which struck the Puget Sound area on the evening of January 28th. 
Water service is now out to all facilities at Paradise, a popular winter area. 
The exact cause of the problem is still under investigation.  Efforts to fix
the problem have been hampered by a snow accumulation of between 15 and 20 feet
throughout the area.  No damage estimates are currently available, nor is it
certain when Paradise will reopen.  [J. Milton, MORA, 2/1]

95-44 - Yosemite (California) - Poaching Conviction

On January 31st, R.M., 54, of Riverbank, California, was sentenced
for his conviction on charges of shooting four male mule deer in the Wawona
front country in June of 1994.  R.M. had been at large since the incident,
but was arrested on November 28th on a $10,000 warrant for violation of 16 USC
60.  He was sentenced to 30 days in custody, 24 months probation, and 200 hours
of community service; his hunting privileges were also revoked and he forfeited
weapons involved in the incident.  R.M.'s accomplice, L.S., 32, also
of Riverbank, was apprehended on a similar warrant last September.  L.S. was
convicted of assisting R.M. and illegally killing the deer; he was sentenced
to 10 days in custody, 24 months probation, and 200 hours of community service,
and banned from hunting or associating with anyone hunting for two years.  Both
subjects plead guilty with no trial after their attorneys were presented with
key evidence - blood samples from the animals which matched traces of blood
found on a knife in R.M.'s possession.  Wawona rangers and investigators
worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service laboratory in Oregon in
preparing the evidence.  [Jeff Sullivan, YOSE, 2/1/95]

95-45 - Coronado (Arizona) - Drug Seizure

On February 1st, rangers and members of the Border Alliance Group (BAG) stopped
and checked several suspicious vehicles which had been under surveillance in
the park's picnic area.  No drugs were discovered, but the completely empty
trunk of one vehicle indicated that preparations had been made to load it with
marijuana.  Further investigation of the area led to the discovery of just over
162 pounds of marijuana hidden in a manzanita bush.  No arrests were made, but
all suspects will be entered into the local BAG smuggling database.  [Scott
Sticha, PR, CORO, 2/2]

95-46 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Drug Arrests

Rangers and a park criminal investigator participated in an arrest sweep in
Raleigh County, West Virginia, on January 30th.  The raid was in conjunction
with the Raleigh County Regional Unified Drug Enforcement (RUDE) task force. 
Five felony arrests were made without incident, all involving warrants for
arson and trafficking, dealing and/or distributing drugs.  Two of the
individuals arrested are currently under investigation for drug and arson
activities within the park.  [Duncan Hollar, DR, Sandstone District, NERI,
1/31]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

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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