NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, May 3, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-189 - Lava Beds (California) - ARPA/NAGPRA Arrest

A five-year investigation has culminated in the arrest of J.K., 30, for
possession of Native American remains taken from the park.  In July of 1990,
J.K. began showing off a human skull at local bars which he said he'd taken
from "the lava beds."  Efforts were made at the time to develop a case against
him, but park staff were unable to gather sufficient evidence.  At the request
of the Klamath tribe, the case was reopened in 1993 when J.K. began showing
off the skull in Oregon, this time with a wig resembling a mohawk cut.  The
county sheriff's office and Oregon state police were both brought into the
investigation, but J.K. and the skull disappeared.  When he resurfaced last
summer, a search warrant, based partly on the park's investigation, was served
on him by Oregon state police, who found and seized two skulls (one of an
adult, the other of a child), bald eagle feathers, and methamphetamine.  He was
charged with possession of Native American remains, possession of protected
bird parts, and illegal possession (as a previously convicted felon) of a
firearm.  J.K. is currently awaiting trial; the skulls are being returned to
the Klamath tribe.  [LABE, 5/1]

95-190 - George Washington Parkway (Virginia) - MVA with Fatality

A woman driving a 1992 Mitsubishi was killed when she lost control of her
vehicle on the parkway just north of the parkway's first overlook on April
30th.  She was extricated from the vehicle and transported by Park Police
helicopter to a city hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.  [Bill
Lynch, NCRO, 5/1]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

OBSERVATIONS

This is one of a series of observations about the National Park Service that
have been made by notable women and men.  They will appear intermittently at
the end of the Morning Report.

 "The young people of today are the lawmakers, the scientists, the
industrialists, the conservationists, the cattlemen, and the lumbermen of
tomorrow.  It is vitally important that they learn today the values of
the national parks, and the principles underlying their preservation. 
For they will have the say tomorrow as to what becomes of these
properties of the people."

                                              Newton B. Drury
                                              Director, 1940-1951

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


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