NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, October 23, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-694 - Kings Canyon (California) - Assist; Assault, Attempted Kidnapping

On October 19th, rangers received a report of an assault on and the attempted
abduction of a 28-year-old woman from Germany on Sequoia National Forest lands
adjacent to the park.  The woman was held at gunpoint, but was able to escape
and sustained only minor cuts and abrasions.  Park rangers sealed and searched
the area.  At 11:30 p.m., officers took a suspect into custody and seized a
high-powered rifle, a pistol and a knife.  An investigation is underway.  The
incident is not related to the similar incident at Yosemite last week.  [Tom
Tschohl, Acting CR, SEKI]

95-695 - Cape Hatteras (North Carolina) - Drowning

Three students and a professor from the College of William and Mary were
swimming off the beach near the village of Hatteras on October 21st when they
were caught up in a rip current.  Three members of the group survived, but
M.C., 20, of Syracuse, New York, drowned.  Efforts by his companions to
pull his body to shore were unsuccessful.  Cooperative efforts by the park,
Coast Guard and Hatteras Island Rescue have also been unsuccessful.  During the
search, a 21-foot Coast Guard boat capsized in Hatteras Inlet; crew members
spent 30 minutes in the rough surf, but made it to shore without injury.  [CRO,
CAHA]

95-696 - Fort Matanzas (Florida) - Armed Robbery

During the early morning hours of October 20th, a man approached a visitor,
pulled a knife on him, and demanded money.  The victim gave his attacker $150;
the latter then fled the area.  Rangers and county deputies responded and were
engaged in a search for the assailant at the time of the report (last Friday
morning).  [C. Dale, CR, CASA]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Glacier (Montana) - Wolf Release

Two wolves from the Boulder pack - an adult male and a yearling female - were
released in upper McDonald valley on the west side of the continental divide on
October 18th.  The wolves, members of a pack which had occupied habitat in the
Deer Lodge National Forest near Boulder, Montana, were captured about 30 miles
southwest of Helena in early September after they killed three calves - two on
private land and one on a national forest grazing allotment.  The relocation to
the park was in accord with the Fish and Wildlife Service's interim wolf
control plan.  In its request to the park, FWS emphasized that agreement has
not yet been reached on alternative relocation sites within Montana, noted that
the wolves would have been destroyed if the park hadn't been available for
relocation, and stated that all further management decisions and actions will
be made by FWS if the wolves should leave the park.  Any further livestock
depredations will result in the removal of the wolves from the wild.  This is
the fourth such release in Glacier since 1989.  None of the released wolves
have yet remained in the park, but there is no alternative release site for
problem wolves in the state.  A draft wolf management plan and EIS for the
state is scheduled for public review this fall.  The park is currently home to
about 30 resident wolves - ten adults and six pups in the South Camas pack,
four to five adults with three to four pups in the North Camas pack, four
adults and six pups in the Sage Creek pack, which ranges largely north of the
Canadian border.  [Amy Vanderbilt, PIO, GLAC]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

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.  NOTE: Due to the
number of entries submitted to "Calendar" and the limited space available,
brevity is appreciated.

10/28-11/1 -- Society of American Foresters Annual Convention, Portland, ME. 
Contact: Mary Yedgarlof, 301-897-8720.  [Sheila Lee, RRAD/WASO]

11/5-7 -- "Leadership from the Inside Out", Radisson Hotel, Saint Paul, MN. 
Course, which qualifies as official NPS training, will be held
prior to Ranger Rendezvous.  $150 for ANPR and ANPME members; $180
for non-members.  Deadline for registration is October 7th. 
Contact: Gary Warshefski, 315-337-5176.  [Bill Wade, SHEN]

11/5-8 -- Public Benefits of Archeology Conference, Santa Fe, NM.  Sponsored
by NPS and several other organizations.  $50.  Contact: Barbara
Little via cc:Mail or at 202-343-9513.  [Barbara Little, IRD/WASO]

11/7-11 -- Ranger Rendezvous XIX, Radisson Hotel, St. Paul, MN.  Presented by
the Association of National Park Rangers and the Association of
National Park Maintenance Employees.  Conference includes speakers,
exhibitor sessions, and workshops.  Topics will cover the full
spectrum of NPS activities, including cultural and natural
resources, interpretation, protection, maintenance, employee
issues, partnerships, and life in the new NPS.  Contact: Barbara
Goodman, 941-792-0458, or Tony Sisto, 503-326-6270.  [Barbara
Goodman, DESO]

11/13-15 -- Fire Effects on Threatened and Endangered Species and Habitats,
Coeur d'Alene, ID.  Contact: International Association of Wildland
Fire, 509-283-2397.  [Kathy Jope, PNRO]

11/13-17 -- Basic Wetland Delineation, Holiday Inn, Austin, TX.  A five-day
class on the application of the wetland delineation procedures put
on by the Wetland Training Institute.  The cost is $850.  Contact:
Wetland Training Institute, 301-972-8112, or Leslie Krueger, NPS
Water Resources Division, 303-969-2815.

11/14-17 -- Environmental Crimes Investigation, BLM National Training Center,
Phoenix, AZ.  *** POSTPONED ***

11/15-18 -- Fifth National Rails-to-Trails Conference, Clearwater/St.
Petersburg, FL.  Contact: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, 202-797-
5430.  [Sheila Lee, RRAD/WASO]

11/27-30 -- "The Real Magic", National Interpreters Workshop, Orlando, FL. 
Contact: Amy Galperin, National Association of Interpretation, 303-
239-3960.  [Sheila Lee, RRAD/WASO]

12/2-4 -- North American Water Trails Conference, Clearwater, FL.  Contact:
Lelia Mellen, 802-457-4323.  [Sheila Lee, RRAD/WASO]

2/8-10 -- "Opening Doors: The Southeastern Regional Conference on African
American Historic Preservation," South Carolina African American
Heritage Council, Charleston, SC. Topics include historic
preservation, building community support, funding courses and
historical research methods.  Registration: $125.  Contact: Cynthia
Baxter, 803-734-8611.  [Michael Allen, SC Department of Archives
and History]

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


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