NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, August 25, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-551 - Mojave (California) - Hazardous Materials Dumping Arrests

On August 17th, a team comprised of park and BLM rangers and investigators and
state game wardens witnessed Louis and Gabriel Lefave and a juvenile, all from
Las Vegas, dumping hazardous and toxic materials onto BLM land located in
California and adjacent to the park.  The three men were subsequently arrested
and charged with single felony counts of illegally dumping hazardous wastes. 
Their arrests marked the culmination of a month-and-a-half long investigation
into a series of hazmat dumping cases in the park and on surrounding BLM and
private lands.  At least one of the dump sites is within a park wilderness
area.  A dozen sites have so far been found; together, they contain a total of
108 55-gallon drums of toxic and hazardous materials, some of which have
spilled their contents onto and into surrounding soil.  Information gleaned in
the arrests suggests that there may be 30 more drums at another four to six
sites.  The Service and BLM have so far expended about $170,000 on clean-up of
these sites and on the associated criminal investigation.  The NPS share has
come through the support of the hazmat coordinator in Pacific West Field
Office.  Following the arrests, park, BLM and EPA rangers and investigators
served search warrants on a Las Vegas firm and the residence of the firm's
owner.  More evidence was obtained in the searches.  Additional charges and
arrests are pending.  Both the site clean-up and the investigations are being
managed under the incident command system.  Agencies involved include the NPS,
BLM, FBI, EPA, California Fish and Game, the Nevada Highway Patrol, and the San
Bernadino health department.  [Bill Blake, IC, MOJA]

95-552 - Mojave (California) - Homicide Investigation

On August 22nd, Lake Mead and Mojave rangers, ATF agents and Las Vegas homicide
detectives executed a search warrant at the residence of Scott Wayne, who lives
in a private residence within the park's boundaries.  Wayne is a suspect in a
homicide in which an innocent bystander was killed during the bombing of a
house trailer.  Wayne was not at home, but a significant quantity of det cord,
hand grenades and other explosives were found there - along with a .50 caliber
machine gun and ammunition and an illegal rifle.  Rangers at Mojave had
previously contacted Wayne regarding drug and weapons violations.  [Thane
Weigand, DR, Kelso District, MOJA]

95-553 - Olympic (Washington) - Possible Homicide

On August 20th, human remains were found near Lake Crescent in the northern
part of the park.  A search was then begun for additional remains. 
Investigators and searchers from the park, state police, Forest Service and
local SAR teams recovered several items of clothing, numerous bones, and
portions of a skull containing two small holes.  Investigators also recovered
what appears to be a small caliber bullet.  It was found on the ground directly
below the skull.  The bones and clothing will be sent to forensic labs for
further analysis.  Additional information will be released once those reports
are received.  [Barb Maynes, PIO, OLYM]

95-554 - New River Gorge (West Virginia) - Assault; Two Arrests

Rangers and state troopers responded to a 911 call of a possible gunfight in
Terry Beach, a park community, on August 12th.  Four weapons were confiscated
from one person, but the prime suspect could not be found.  About 90 minutes
later, rangers again responded to a 911 call of shots being fired in the area
(the closest county and state units were over an hour away).  They contacted
and arrested W.B., 30, and O.S., 20, of Piney View.  Three
fully-loaded weapons were found on their persons and in the vehicle in which
they were riding.  W.B. was also found to be wearing a full military flak
jacket.  The two men were arraigned in federal court on charges of disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest, possession of loaded firearms within a motor
vehicle, discharging of firearms, and possession of controlled substances.  Two
assistant U.S. attorneys are visiting the park this week to assist the district
criminal investigator with the on-going investigation and to ascertain whether
additional charges should be filed for assault, kidnapping and being a felon in
possession of a firearm.  [Duncan Hollar, Sandstone District, DR, NERI]

95-555 - Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - Illegal Collecting

Rangers cited four individuals on August 16th for illegally collecting
reptiles, possession of snake capture sticks, and firearms violations.  Ranger
Fred Moosman seized four professional snake collecting hooks, and fined them
over $800.  The men admitted to snake collecting and had tiger rattlesnakes
(Crotalus tigris) in their possession.  They were driving four separate
vehicles and were equipped with CB radios, handheld spotlights, a video camera,
a 35 mm camera, a semi-automatic rifle, a revolver, and two semi-automatic
pistols.  One of the three said that he'd recently visited Joshua Tree, and the
other mentioned the Chiricahua area and Big Bend.  Detailed information on the
men and their vehicles have been provided to appropriate agencies and the local
wildlife task force.  For further information, contact either Fred Moosman or
Aniceto Olais at the park.  [Aniceto Olais, CR, ORPI]

95-556 - Wrangell-St. Elias (Alaska) - Search and Rescue

On August 16th, a local air taxi operator reported that two hunters - B.B.
and R.C., both of Anchorage - were a day overdue for their
prearranged pick-up at an airstrip near the Barnard Glacier moraine, that he
had found one of them, and that the other was apparently missing.  The pilot
had landed at the strip and heard three gunshots, which, as it turned out,
constituted an emergency signal from B.B..  The pilot flew the area and found
him on the moraine, apparently with a leg injury.  R.C. was not in the area. 
Since the pilot was unable to land near B.B., he instead returned and
notified the park.  Ranger Donald Mike and criminal investigator Tim Saskowsky
flew to the glacier in a contract helicopter, located B.B., treated his leg
injury, and evacuated him to an airstrip on the Chitina River.  B.B. said
that he'd last seen R.C. when they split up two days earlier to scout for an
easy route back across the glacier following an unsuccessful hunt for Dall
sheep in the park.  R.C. was subsequently found by searchers in a helicopter. 
He appeared to be lost and unable to either locate the original airstrip or
find his way to B.B..  Both hunters were returned to McCarthy via air taxi. 
[Jay Wells, CR, WRST]

                [Additional pending reports on Monday...]

FIRE ACTIVITY

The NICC fire report was not available at the time today's Morning Report was
released.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) GPRA Information - The Service is working to comply with the provisions of
the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) and make it useful to
the agency.  GPRA, which affects the entire federal government, requires both
strategic planning/goal setting and performance measurement.  Results count
rather than efforts.  The NPS GPRA task force is working to make this a field-
based approach.  Nine parks and programs served as prototypes this summer and
provided valuable information about how best to develop goals and performance
measures to make GPRA requirements useful to park and program managers.  A
field guide based on the prototypes is now being developed by the GPRA task
force.  In September, the National Leadership Council (NLC) will be looking at
recommendations on how to best implement this Servicewide.  Various parks and
programs are now employing GPRA to set goals and establish strategic plans.  If
you're involved in such efforts or are about to do so, the Office of Strategic
Planning would like to hear from you.  You can call the office at 303-969-7012
or contact them via cc:Mail at "WASO Strategic Planning."  [Heather Huyck,
OSP/DSC]

OBSERVATIONS

Quotes submitted for consideration for the Morning Report should pertain to
either the National Park Service or closely related issues, such as wilderness
and conservation, and should include the author and the date and source of the
quote.  A mailing list has been created for periodic dissemination of the
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that list, please send a note to this address. 

Here's today's "quote":

"RESOLVED, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science
recognizes the National Parks as the means of preserving unique representations
of the primitive and majestic in nature, and wishes to record its protests
against additions to the National Park System, or change in policy, which may
tend to lessen in fact or in public estimation their present high value as
natural museums, their complete conservation from industrial uses, and their
effectiveness as a national education institution."

                                         Resolution, AAAS, December,
                                         1925

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

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