NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, May 15, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

                           *** NOTICE ***

By order of Presidential Proclamation, all flags are to be flown at half-staff
today in commemoration of Peace Officers Memorial Day.  Flags are to be
returned to full staff tomorrow morning.

INCIDENTS

95-217 - National Capital Parks East (D.C.) - MVA with Fatality

While driving through Anacostia Park on the morning of May 11th, a woman lost
control of her car, went off the road, and ended up in the Anacostia River. 
The vehicle was completely submerged by the time responding Park Police
officers and rescuers were able to reach the pregnant driver.  She was taken to
a city hospital, where an emergency caesarean was performed in an effort to
save the child.  The mother subsequently died; the newborn is in critical
condition.  [Bill Lynch, NCRO, 5/12]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

OBSERVATIONS

"I do not want to see our National Parks robbed of any of their beauty on the
ground that it must be done in order to secure money sufficient to pay the
expenses of maintaining them.  I do not want to see any of the natural
resources taken from them that would in any way mar their beauty.  I think it
would be the best money that Congress could spend, to place the parks in a
condition that they can be enjoyed by the people of the United States."

                                       Senator Reed Smoot (R-Utah) 
                                       Addressing the 1916 Conference
                                       on National Parks

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


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