NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, February 9, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-52 - Lassen Volcanic (California) - Search

Dan Grimm, a park employee, was reported overdue from a field trip at 12:30
p.m. on February 7th.  Grimm had left headquarters that morning to check remote
camera devices being used on a wildlife project.  The weather forecast was for
snow showers that evening.  Four hasty teams comprised of NPS and Forest
Service employees were deployed, and located Grimm at 8 p.m.  He had become
disoriented and traveled uphill from the point last seen.  Although cold and
hungry, he was in good shape.  [Bryan Swift, CR, LAVO, 2/8]

95-53 - Natchez Trace (Mississippi/Alabama/Tennessee) - MVA with Fatality

On February 3rd, M.O., 56, of Brandon, Mississippi, was driving north on
the parkway when her vehicle struck a tree top that had fallen across the road,
causing it to sideswipe a vehicle parked on the opposite side of the road.  Her
car was then struck by another northbound vehicle.  M.O. later died of
injuries sustained in the accident.  [CR, NATR, 2/8]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Correction - There's nothing like inadvertently "moving" the Grand Canyon to
Wyoming (95-51 in yesterday's Morning Report) to generate a spate of humorous
notes on cc:Mail.  No, the park wasn't moved as part of the restructuring of
the service, as several wags speculated.  The park's chief ranger has verified
that it's still in Arizona.

2) Morning Report Dissemination - Distribution of the standard DOS text version
of the Morning Report is handled by regional and park cc:Mail hub coordinators,
not by Ranger Activities.  Persons interested in being added or deleted from
the distribution net need to contact their hub coordinators.  Interested
offices can receive a WordPerfect 5.1 version of the Morning Report, however,
by sending a note to WASO Ranger Activities.  This is disseminated through an
internally-managed cc:Mail mailing list.

3) Museum Collections - Martha Lee, museum registrar at Yosemite, is working on
a chapter about the use of museum collections in publications for the new "NPS
Museum Handbook, Part III, The Uses of Museum Collections", and would
appreciate hearing about any publications - including articles, postcards,
books, catalogs, and souvenirs - that have been developed using NPS
collections.  If you can help, send her a full citation of the publication,
and, if possible, an annotation noting how the park's collection was used and
to what extent park staff were involved in the project.  She would like to
receive the information by February 21st.  She is on cc:Mail by name, on
Internet as Martha_Lee@NPS.gov; her phone is 209-372-0281.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

COMING EVENTS CALENDAR

The Coming Events calendar appears in the morning report every other Thursday. 
If you know of a significant event of Servicewide interest, please forward the
listing to WASO Ranger Activities.  Entries are listed no earlier than FOUR
months before the event.  Asterisks indicate new entries; brackets at end of
entry indicate source of information:

2/12* -- Abraham Lincoln Birthday, 186th Presidential wreath-laying 
ceremony, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.  Annual commemoration. 
Noon.  Contact: Public Affairs, NCRO.

2/14* -- Frederick Douglass Birthday, Frederick Douglas NHS, Washington, DC. 
Ceremonies commemorate centennial year of Douglass' birth. 
Dramatic portrayal of Douglass by actor Fred Morsell.  10 a.m. 
Contact: Public Affairs, NCRO.

2/22* -- George Washington Birthday, Washington Monument, Washington, DC. 
Annual commemoration.  11:30 a.m.  Contact: Public Affairs, NCRO.

3/27-4/9* -- National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC.  Series of annual
events.  Contact: Public Affairs, NCRO.

4/13* -- Thomas Jefferson Birthday, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC. 
Annual commemoration.  Noon.  Contact: Public Affairs, NCRO.

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

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