NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, April 6, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-33 - Little Bighorn (Montana) - Follow-up on ARPA/NAGPRA Conviction

R.M., who earlier this year pled guilty in federal court to
Archeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) and Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) violations stemming from thefts from
the park, has been sentenced in federal magistrate's court in Alexandria,
Virginia.  He was sentenced to a $500 fine and a year's probation on the charge
of selling artifacts, and to a $1,500 fine and a year's probation on the charge
of trafficking in Native American remains.  As a condition of his probation,
R.M. must also reimburse the U.S. probation office for the expenses of
administering his case (about $2,100) and pay the NPS $1,500 for repatriation
of the remains, which will be transferred to the custody of the Cheyenne
nation.  Meanwhile, in a related case, C.S. of Bowie, Maryland, has
been indicted on three counts of attempting to sell artifacts taken from the
battlefield and possession of stolen government property.  Snyder purchased an
artifact frame from R.M. which contained about 50 artifacts from the
park, including a cavalry button, several fired bullets and casings, and a
commercially-primed 50-70 caliber cartridge.  Both of the arrests stem from a
BLM sting operation which snared G.S., a former seasonal ranger (two
seasons) at Little Bighorn and a local school teacher, who had taken many of
the artifacts and sold them to R.M..  Although the initial case was made
by BLM investigators, R.M. and G.S. were tracked down and arrested by
NPS special agents.  [Clark Guy, SA, MARO, 4/5]

FIRE ACTIVITY

Fire activity has increased throughout the East and Southeast.  Two fires are
presently burning on park lands:

* Shenandoah (Virginia) - A 500-acre state fire has burned about 100 acres of
park land.  Structures are threatened; about 50 people have been evacuated from
state protected land.  This is one of at least five significant fires in the
state.  A dispatch operation has been set up at Shenandoah and will serve as
the primary interagency coordination center for the state.

* Everglades (Florida) - The E112 fire has burned 1,700 acres.  Containment is
expected today.  

Fire danger is from high to extreme throughout the East and Southeast; red flag
conditions and burning bans are in effect in many states.

[Doug Wallner, FMO, MARO, 4/5] 

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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