NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, April 7, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-136 - Delaware Water Gap (New Jersey/Pennsylvania) - Resource Violation

On the afternoon of April 4th, ranger Rich Shreffler came upon four women in a
roadside field cutting and bagging three to five inch high daylilies
(Hemerocallis sp.).  The women were employing large straight knives to cut the
daylilies, and had already collected 439 plants.  One of the women said that
she knew she was in a park, but that the daylilies were being collected for her
use and not for commercial resale.  She also explained that she was going to
dry the plants, make a tea, and use the tea as medicine for a kidney ailment. 
The woman was cited for digging and removing plants; her companinions were
warned.  [Wayne Valentine, SDR, DEWA, 4/6]

FIRE ACTIVITY

Shenandoah (Virginia) - The Shenandoah Gap Fire was contained at midnight on
Wednesday, April 5th.  A total of about 1,000 acres burned, but only 90 on park
land.  The NPS had three crews on the fire.  The cause of the fire is still
under investigation, but is located in an area where an arson-caused fire
occurred last fall.  A Virginia Department of Forestry employee rolled a
bulldozer on very steep terrain outside the park on Wednesday.  The dozer
rolled seven times over a distance of about 200 feet.  Because he was wearing a
seat belt, he suffered only minor bruises and scratches.  [Julie Thomas, IO,
Shenandoah Gap Fire, 4/6] 

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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