NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, October 27, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-704 - Yellowstone (Wyoming) - Illegal Wildlife Taking Conviction

On October 25th, a jury found C.M. guilty on three misdemeanor
counts of killing, possessing and transporting a wolf he shot near Red Lodge,
Montana, on April 24th.  The wolf was from the Rose Creek group, introduced
into the park this year.  C.M. never denied shooting the wolf, but
contended that he thought it was a wild dog.  Witnesses testified that
C.M. knew the animal was a wolf before he killed it.  C.M. will be
sentenced within the next 90 days.  He could receive six months in prison and a
$25,000 fine on the charges of killing and possessing the wolf, both violations
of the Endangered Species Act.  The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor could
be a year in prison and a $100,000 fine.  [Cheryl Matthews, YELL]

95-705 - Biscayne (Florida) - Drowning

F.M.-V. and two companions headed out from Miami in a 13-foot
boat to fish in the park on the night of Monday, October 23rd, despite the fact
that small craft advisories were in effect for strong northeast winds and
choppy conditions.  The boat was soon swamped.  F.M.-V.'s companions
were rescued by a private boater, but he could not be found.  An extremely
strong current also flows through this area of the park.  A joint search was
begun by the park and Coast Guard; F.M.-V.'s body was found on
Wednesday about a mile south of the Stiltsville area of the park.  The
preliminary investigation indicates that the size of the three men - 190, 240
and 250 pounds - was a contributing factor, as it seriously overloaded the
small boat.  Although the three men had a sufficient number of life jackets
with them, only one man was wearing one.  [Bonnie Foist, CRO, BISC]

95-706 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Fatality

On October 17th, R.N., 81, collapsed while seated on a tour bus in the
Thurston Lava Tube parking lot.  A park maintenance crew was in the area and
notified dispatch.  R.N.'s daughter and paramedic T.H.
immediately began CPR; maintenance employee Herb Botelho soon relieved
R.N.'s daughter and continued administering CPR with T.H. until rangers
and Kilauea Military Camp medics arrived on scene.  The maintenance crew
remained on scene and provided traffic control until all units cleared.  Medics
were unable to revive R.N., who was pronounced dead at a local hospital. 
[CR, HAVO]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Yellowstone (Wyoming) - Update on Wolves

As of October 23rd, the alpha female and all eight pups of the Rose Creek pack
were with a wolf from the Crystal Bench park and were near the Crystal Bench
area.  Another wolf from the Rose Creek group was in the northern portion of
the park.  The five Crystal Bench wolves were in the Lamar Valley area of the
park, and the Soda Butte wolves were all together and located near the Soda
Butte drainage.  [Cheryl Matthews, YELL]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Information Request - Acadia is seeking information on the management of
panhandling wildlife at campgrounds and day use areas.  The park has problems
with panhandling foxes, gulls, and campground raccoons.  They're interested in
hearing and reading about equipment, educational outreach and programs, and
management strategies used to reduce negative relationships between humans and
wildlife.  They'd also like to know how parks have incorporated all divisions
within the park in implementing these programs via SOPs.  Contact Bruce Connery
via cc:Mail or at 207-288-5463 or send any info on SOPs, equipment design or
blueprints via mail to him at Acadia NP, PO Box 177, Bar Harbor, ME 04609. 
[Bruce Connery, ACAD]

2) Golden Eagle Pass Misuse - Natural Bridges reports confiscating eight Golden
Eagle passes last month from international visitors.  Park staff noticed that
passes being used in the fall had been purchased in early summer, which seemed
unusual for international travelers.  Upon asking for identification, they
found that in nearly every instance the pass signature did not match the
identification of the pass holder.  Almost without exception, the visitors
either admitted that they'd been given or purchased the pass from someone else,
or went to get identification and never returned.  [Jim Dougan, CR, NABR]

OBSERVATIONS

"The National Park Service is operated with three levels of management: the
director's office in Washington, which is responsible for translating the
secretary's objectives into action; regional offices [sic]...are responsible
for coordination of field management; and the parks, each in the charge of a
superintendent, responsible for on-site accomplishment of the service mission,
namely: preserve the park resources and serve the visitor.  The operation is
not nearly as smooth as the outlines of the organization chart.  Park people
are intensely committed to their mission, hard working, strong-willed and
fiercely independent.  Dr. Stanley Cain, a former assistant secretary and a
former chairman of the secretary's Advisory Board on National Parks, once
likened the director's job to that of a university president. 'They each,' he
said, 'have a job that requires the skill to herd wild hogs on ice.'" 

                                    Director George Hartzog, "Battling
                                    for the National Parks", 1988

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