NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, July 27, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-461 - Rocky Mountain (Colorado) - Rescue

One of two 15-year-old twins visiting the park with a guardian was attempting
to drink from the North Saint Vrain River on the afternoon of July 24th when he
fell in.  His brother and the guardian jumped into the river in an attempt to
save him, but became stranded themselves.  One twin was swept 75 feet down the
river by a strong current before his sweater became snagged on a log and he was
able to pull himself to shore.  His brother and their guardian remained
stranded, clinging to a rock, until the park technical rescue team and local
fire department personnel and dive teams were able to rescue them.  They were
treated for bruises, bumps and chills, but were otherwise okay.  The members of
the party were very lucky, as the park's rivers are still swollen and running
very fast due to runoff from the heavy spring snowfall.  [Dispatch, ROMO]

95-462 - Glacier Bay (Alaska) - Theft

Acting on a report from the park concessioner, rangers contacted a deckhand who
was suspected of taking over $1400 in cash and blank company checks from the
tour boat he worked on.  J.F., 27, of Kent, Washington, was about to
board an airplane to leave the area on July 23rd when rangers held the plane's
departure in order to question him.  During the questioning, J.F. consented to
a search of his belongings.  The missing money and checks were found in the
luggage, and J.F. confessed to having stolen them on the previous evening.  He
was arrested and booked into the correctional facility in Juneau.  An
investigation in conjunction with the state DA's office is currently underway. 
Felony theft charges may be filed against J.F..  [Chuck Young, DR, GLBA]

95-463 - North Cascades (Washington) - Drug Interdiction

During the extended U.S.-Canadian holiday weekend from June 30th to July 4th,
rangers joined officers from the Border Patrol, U.S. Customs, Canadian Customs
and Excise and the RCMP in a drug interdiction operation called "Operation
Lightning Creek VI" at the Hozomeen border crossing at the north end of Ross
Lake.  U.S. Customs inspectors and rangers confiscated seven "personal use"
quantities of marijuana and two of cocaine.  The Border Patrol returned 23
persons to Canada for illegal entry into the United States, including three
from Iraq who are not allowed entry into either Canada or the U.S.  Most
illegal entries were made by people with previous criminal histories, including
narcotics convictions and active warrants for other criminal activities.  [Pete
Cowan, CR, NOCA]

95-464 - Lake Mead (Nevada) - Drug Arrests

Rangers at Katherine received a tip from a cooperating law enforcement agency
that an undercover officer was unable to make contact with a suspect from
Tucson who had arranged to sell the officer a quarter pound of marijuana, and
that the suspect was probably camped on a beach at Katherine.  Night patrol
rangers were advised and found the suspect and several friends.  Drugs and
paraphernalia were in plain view, as was a .32 caliber pistol.  A search led to
the discovery of both the marijuana and methamphetamine.  Three people were
arrested for simple possession and possession of dangerous drugs for sale. 
Their vehicle was seized.  [Bud Inman, LAME]

FIRE ACTIVITY

The fire report was not available at transmission time this morning.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Information Request - FLETC is in the process of updating the portion of the
11 LM Basic Training Program that deals with extremist groups which are
operating or have operated on National Park Service lands.  The Service's FLETC
office is seeking slides, photographs or videos and short reports on their
activities in NPS areas.   If you can help, please contact Paul Henry at
912-267-2245.  [Cindy Ott-Jones, NPS/FLETC]

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

OBSERVATIONS

Today's quote, another in the series specifically on parks, comes from John
Quinley in Alaska: 

"The greatest resource of all is space - space for wandering, space for
solitude and a sense of discovery.  For 300 years Americans have benefitted
from such space, with its opportunities to go forth to wilderness adventure. 
First beyond the Appalachians, then the Missouri and the Rockies, then to
Alaska.  This is the last of it.  Combined with neighboring Noatak, big,
beautiful, beckoning wild landscapes stretch no farther under the United States
flag." 
 
                                        Adapted from John Kauffmann,
                                        excerpted from Bill Brown's
                                        "This Last Treasure"

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