NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, April 25, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

94-58 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Follow-up on Drug Arrests

G.W., who was arrested by park investigators and members of a DEA
task force last February for cultivation of marijuana in and adjacent to the
park, pled guilty to associated charges in federal court in Honolulu and began
serving a ten-year prison sentence on March 27th.  NPS and DEA seized a
Willie's Jeep, a residence and two parcels of land from G.W. and his co-
conspirators.  [Scott Hinson, CI, HAVO/PAAR, 4/19]

95-174 - Yosemite (California) - Search and Rescue

On March 23rd, Wawona rangers received a report of two skiers - J.L. and
A.B. - who were overdue from a planned eight-day trip to the Triple
Divide Peak area.  A three-day search was begun by two helicopters and about
ten park employees.  The crew of a rescue helicopter from Lemoore NAS spotted
the skiers on the morning of March 25th.  Both were in good condition.  J.L.
and A.B. had spent four days and nights holed up in a tent while up to ten
feet of new snow fell around them.  J.L. created a chess set from raisins, nuts
and moleskin to pass the time in between clearing snow off the tent.  J.L. has
since written to the park to report his shock at all the attention the incident
received.  He's been interviewed on cable TV and several radio talk shows, has
had articles about him appear in several papers, and was even asked to come up
on stage at a local folk music performance to tell his story.  [CRO, YOSE,
4/25]

95-175 - Fire Island (New York) - Aircraft Crash

On the afternoon of April 20th, a two-seat, homemade, kit-type airplane
developed engine trouble and was forced to land on the beach about two-and-a-
half miles east of Watch Hill.  The pilot, L.J., 63, who's flown
planes for over 30 years, made a perfect dead-stick landing on the hard beach
below the high water mark.  He was shaken but uninjured.  L.J. let his
engine cool down, then attempted to take off from soft sand above the high
water mark.  As he approached take off speed, he went over a large pile of sand
and nosed over, destroying the propeller and cowling and causing another $1,000
in damage to the aircraft.  The FAA has investigated the accident.  [DR, West
District, FIIS, 4/24] 

95-176 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Car Clouting Arrests

Rangers received a series of eleven reports of car clouts in the park on April
2nd.  All the hits occurred within 90 minutes and all had similar MO's.  While
taking reports from the victims, another visitor contacted rangers and advised
them that his vehicle and his son-in-law's vehicle had been broken into, and
that his son-in-law, an off-duty county police officer, was in pursuit of the
suspects in a vehicle without a radio.  Park investigators and rangers joined
in the chase and advised the county.  The off-duty officer spotted the
suspects' vehicle parked at a diner in Naalehu, about 45 miles from the park. 
The vehicle came back as stolen; some of the off-duty officer's property was
seen inside it.  Two suspects - O.B., 23, and a juvenile - were
arrested.  A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of items taken from all
eleven car clouts, a loaded handgun in the driver's seat, evidence of the drug
"ice", and items from about fifteen theft cases that had occurred within the
county.  The state is handling the juvenile; O.B. has been arraigned in
federal court and is being held without bail.  [Scott Hinson, CI, HAVO/PAAR, 4/19]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

UPCOMING IN CONGRESS

The following activities will be taking place in Congress during coming weeks
on matters pertaining to the National Park Service.  If you would like further
information on any of these hearings or bills, please contact WASO Legislation
at 202-208-3636.

May 17

Senate Appropriations' Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies (Gorton):
NPS FY96 budget.

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


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