- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Monday, July 17, 1995
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Monday, July 17, 1995
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
95-172 - Blue Ridge (North Carolina/Virginia) - Follow-up on Homicide
A local sheriff's department has made an arrest in the investigation of a
murder which occurred at a parkway overlook on April 4th. The suspect is from
the same eastern North Carolina town as the victim. He was traced to
acquaintances in western North Carolina through cellular telephone call
records. A park ranger who has worked closely with the state's bureau of
investigation and the county since the incident may have identified the suspect
as an individual he spoke with shortly after the crime scene was cleared back
in April. The suspect was driving the victim's vehicle (the victim's identity
was then unknown) when the ranger contacted him. [CRO, BLRI]
95-413 - George Washington Parkway (Virginia) - Death of Employee
Around 1 p.m. on July 15th, seasonal ranger Wesley Fox, 37, of Vienna,
Virginia, was on bike patrol on the Mt. Vernon trail when he collapsed and went
into cardiac arrest. A park volunteer and Alexandria firefighters attempted
resuscitation, but were unsuccessful. An autopsy is being performed to
determine the cause of death. Temperatures were in the upper 90s, humidity was
high, and air quality was poor at the time. [Einar Olsen, RCR, RSD/NCAO]
95-414 - Zion (Utah) - Resource Poaching
On the afternoon of July 15th, ranger Marcia Menz was patrolling congested
Canyon Drive when she came upon a van with its back hatch open, revealing that
it was filled with cactus plants. Menz contacted two French nationals,
M.C. and D.C., who said that they'd been traveling through
public lands in the Southwest, Mexico and Central America for the past three
years collecting all types of natural resources. A search of their vehicle led
to the discovery of over 100 species of cactus, over 100 fossils and minerals,
and numerous plant parts. Federal charges are pending. The family plans on
traveling through the Southwest until their visa expires in late August. Parks
they admitted visiting include Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Big Bend and others
in the Southwest. Investigators wanting to share information should contact
Marcia Menz or Pat Buccello at 801-772-3256. [Pat Buccello, SA, Colorado
Plateau SSO]
95-415 - Yosemite (California) - Search and Rescue
On the afternoon of July 8th, rangers responded to the report of a rafting
accident on the Merced River in the El Portal area. Upon arrival, they found
D.D., 43, stranded in a tree midstream in the river. D.D. was an
occupant of a raft which had overturned about a half mile upstream; two other
occupants, aged 42 and 13, swam to shore, but the fourth occupant, a 16-year-
old girl, was missing. Search and rescue operations were begun immediately,
and additional assistance was sought from the county SAR team and from BLM
river rangers. The 16-year-old was found on the shore two miles downstream
within a half hour. BLM river rangers brought D.D. to shore. D.D. and the
two juveniles were treated for minor injuries and released. [CRO, YOSE]
[More pending incident reports tomorrow...]
FIRE ACTIVITY
1) NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II
2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
% Est
State Area Fire IMT 7/14 7/17 Con Con
CA San Diego RU * Sycamore -- - 1,000 0 NEC
Tuolumne-Cal. RU * Peoria -- - 2,000 0 CN 7/17
UT Fishlake NF * Mahogany -- - 350 100 CND
AZ Phoenix Dis. * Wabayuma -- - 100 100 CN 7/16
HEADING NOTES:
Fire * = newly reported fire (on this report). Cx = complex.
IMT T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST1 = state Type 1; ST2 = state Type 2.
% Con Percent of fire contained.
Est Con Estimated containment date. NEC = no estimated date of
containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report.
3) FIRES YESTERDAY -
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Number 2 5 9 1 65 15 97
Acres Burned 0 5 388 0 1,671 309 2,373
4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Federal 11 51 20 3 16
Non-federal 4 17 1 2 2
5) COMPARATIVE SUMMARY -
CY 1995 Five Year Average
Year-to-Date Year-to-Date
Number of Fires - U.S. 48,388 42,754
Acres Burned - U.S. 899,712 1,242,498
Number of Fires - Canada 5,948 -
Acres Burned - Canada 11,084,332 -
6) SITUATION - Moderate fire activity was reported throughout the West over the
weekend. Large fires occurred in California and the eastern Great Basin.
7) OUTLOOK - Initial attack will likely increase in areas where dry
thunderstorms have been forecast, including the central and northern Sierras,
the southern Cascades and northern Utah.
[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 7/17]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No field reports today.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
1) Executive Order on Recreational Fishing - On June 7th, President Clinton
signed Executive Order 12962 calling for all Federal agencies to improve the
quality, function, sustainability, and distribution of U.S. aquatic resources
for increased recreational fishing opportunities. The order requires Federal
agencies to:
1. Develop new partnerships
2. Identify recreational opportunities that are limited by water quality and
habitat degradation and to promote restoration of viable, self-sustaining
fisheries.
3. Foster aquatic conservation and restoration.
4. Provide access to and promote fishing opportunities.
5. Support outreach programs to stimulate angler participation in
conservation and restoration programs.
6. Establish cost-share programs under existing authorities.
7. Implement laws in a manner that will conserve, restore, and enhance
aquatic systems that support recreational fisheries.
8. Assist private landowners in the conservation and enhancement of aquatic
resources.
9. Evaluate all Federally funded, permitted, or authorized actions on
aquatic systems and to document those effects relative to the purposes of
the order.
The order also mandates the establishment of a "National Recreational Fisheries
Coordination Council" and directs the council to develop a "Recreational
Fishery Resource Conservation Plan". This plan will contain a five-year agenda
for Federal agencies that will set forth agency accountabilities and mechanisms
for reporting . The NPS recreational fisheries program, "A Heritage of
Fishing", will provide the basis for NPS involvement in this interagency
effort. The Service will be required to compile and submit an annual
accomplishment report to the council. For additional information, contact
Frank Panek, fisheries program manager, Water Resources Division. [Frank
Panek, WRD/WASO]
2) Sample Badge Patches - At the request of the National Park Service, R&R
Uniforms is developing a badge patch for use on a new green fleece jacket that
will be added to the uniform program in the near future (see your park uniform
program manager for particulars). Several patches based on the current NPS
badge are already in use informally in the field. We would like to review all
existing samples as possible models for the official NPS badge patch. If you
have one that you think should be considered, please send it as soon as
possible to R&R Uniforms, PO Box 27005, Nashville, TN 37202-7005, ATTN: Linda
Balatti. It would help to write "Sample Badge Patch" on the envelope. [Bill
Halainen, RAD/WASO @ DEWA]
MEETINGS/TRAINING CALENDAR
Calendar appears in the morning report every other Monday. If you know of a
conference, meeting or training session with Servicewide interest and
implications, please forward the listing to WASO Ranger Activities. Entries
are listed no earlier than FOUR months before the event, EXCEPT in instances in
which registration dates close much earlier. Asterisks indicate new entries;
brackets at end of entry indicate source of information:
7/23-28* -- "Rangelands in a Sustainable Biosphere", Snowbird, UT. Contact:
Bill McShea, Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian
Institution, Front Royal, VA 22630; 703-635-6500 (phone);
nzpcrc01@sivm.si.edu (Internet). [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
7/26-29* -- "Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration: Keys to the Future",
National Association of Government Archives and Records
Administrators, Raleigh, NC. Contact: Steve Grandin, 518-463-8644
(phone); 518-463-8656 (fax). [Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
7/30-8/11 -- Ninth Annual Western Archives Institute, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena,
CA. A how-to overview of archival management. Contact:
916-773-3000 (phone); 916-773-8249 (fax). [Diane Vogt O'Connor,
CSD/WASO]
7/31-8/3* -- Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of American, Snowbird,
UT. Contact: Jill Baron, Natural Resources Ecology Lab, National
Biological Survey, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
80523; 970-491-1968 (phone); jill@nrel.colostate.edu (Internet).
[Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
8/6-10 -- 46th Annual American Institute of Biological Sciences Meeting of
Scientific Societies, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA.
Contact: AIBS Meetings Office, 800-992-2427 (phone) or 202-628-1509
(fax). [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
8/8-10 -- "Repellents in Wildlife Management", symposium, Sheraton Hotel,
Denver Tech Center, Denver, CO. Early registration fee is $125;
$150 after June 30th. Contact: Office of Conference Services,
Colorado State University, 970-491-7501. [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
8/10-11* -- Global Positioning Systems and Data Recorders, Athens, GA.
Contact: Richard Field, 706-542-3063 (phone). [Steve Cinnamon,
MWRO]
8/28-9/1* -- Western International Forest Disease Work Conference, Whitefish,
MT. Contact: Jane Taylor, 406-329-3463 (phone). [Steve Cinnamon,
MWRO]
8/29-9/3* -- Meeting, Society of American Archivists, Washington, DC. Contact:
SAA, 312-922-0140 (phone). [Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
9/12-17 -- "Excellence in Wildlife Stewardship through Science and Education",
Second Annual Conference, Wildlife Society, Portland, OR. Nineteen
on-going symposia, 21 sessions featuring contributed papers and
posters, trade show. Child care available. Early registration fee
for members is $125, $170 for non-members; fees increased by $35
after August 14th. Contact: Wildlife Society, 5410 Grosvenor Lane,
Bethesda, MD 20814-2197; fax: 301-530-2471. [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
9/18-20 -- Seventh International Disaster Recovery Symposium and Exhibition,
Atlanta, GA. Contact: 314-894-0276. [Diane Vogt O'Connor,
CSD/WASO]
9/18-22 -- Teaching with Historic Places, Mather EDC, Harpers Ferry, WV.
Training course in which participants will use an established model
to develop lesson plans employing historic places in their parks.
Completed lesson plans can be used both on- and off-site. There is
no fee; travel and per diem are by benefitting account. The
application deadline is August 4th. Contact: Marilyn Harper,
National Register of Historic Places, WASO, 202-343-9546 or via
cc:Mail by name. [Marilyn Harper, IRD/WASO]
9/27-30* -- Second Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference,
Steamboat Springs, CO. Contact: Dr. Calvin Jennings, Department of
Anthropology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80512-
1787. [Ken Cannon, MWAC]
10/11-14* -- Workshop for Historians and Interpreters/Western History
Association Conference, Executive Tower Inn, Denver, CO. The
workshop on the first day will focus on interpretive and historical
concerns of NPS areas; the conference will address specific issues
that challenge a reorganized National Park Service in the immediate
and long-term future. $35 registration fee for conference.
Contact (no later than August 15th): Dr. Art Gomez, Santa Fe SSO,
via cc:Mail. [Laura Feller, WASO]
10/8-14* -- GIS and Remote Sensing, Front Royal, VA. Contact: Rose Meier,
Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, Front
Royal, VA 22630; 703-635-6500 (phone); nzpcrc01@sivm.si.edu
(Internet). [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
10/12-13* -- First Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Review, Charlottesville, VA. Contact:
Scott Salom, 703-231-4029 (phone). [Steve Cinnamon, MWRO]
10/16-20 -- "Managing Parks Sustainably: Seminar on Environmental Issues",
Xerox Center, Leesburg, VA. Presented by WASO Environmental
Quality Division in conjunction with the Environmental Law
Institute. The seminar will address ways to incorporate
sustainability into aspects of park management ranging from visitor
impacts and facilities location and design to resource management
and ecosystem considerations, and will explore legal tools and
opportunities for moving toward sustainable decision-making for
park and adjacent resources. Limited to 40 people. Contact: Jacob
Hoogland, EQD/WASO, 202-208-5214. [Jake Hoogland, EQD/WASO]
10/18-22* -- 53rd Plains Anthropological Conference, Laramie, WY. Contact: Sue
Powell, PO Box 3972, University Station, Laramie, WY 82071-3972;
307-476-2124 (phone); PLNCONF@UWYO.EDU (Internet). [Ken Cannon,
MWAC]
10/19-22* -- "Reflections on Relationships on Oral History Research", Oral
History Association, Milwaukee, WI. Contact: Tim Erickson, 414-
229-6980 (phone), 414-229-6766 (fax). [Diane Vogt O'Connor,
CSD/WASO]
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