NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, December 11, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-765 - Yosemite (California) - Burglary Arrest

On December 6th, J.A., 22, a resident of Yosemite, was taken into
custody and charged with burglary and possession of stolen property.  The
arrest followed a three-month-long investigation into about 30 burglaries in
Yosemite Valley by criminal investigator Doug Roe.  The investigation involved
an extensive, multi-day surveillance operation and the pursuit of numerous
leads.  The break in the case came when a suspect in a narcotics distribution
case identified J.A. as the burglar.  J.A. has since confessed to at
least six of the burglaries, and investigators have found numerous items stolen
in the burglaries in his possession.  A detention hearing will be held on
Wednesday.  The investigation is continuing in an effort to locate J.A.'s
accomplice.  [Jeff Sullivan, CI, YOSE]

95-766 - Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee/North Carolina) - Search and Rescue

On the evening of Friday, December 8th, rangers were notified that J.D.,
18, a student at the University of Tennessee, had failed to return from
a day hike to Rainbow Falls.  J.D. had been hiking on the 5.5 Mile trail with
three companions, but became separated from them at the base of the falls.  Her
friends thought she'd begun the downhill return hike ahead of them and expected
to find her at the trailhead.  Rangers immediately began a search for her in
difficult terrain and through very treacherous weather - a mix of driving rain,
sleet and snow, with temperatures below freezing.  The search was halted at 3
a.m. on Saturday, then resumed a few hours later with an additional 20 ground
searchers and eight dog teams.  The first significant winter cold front arrived
that evening, and temperatures plummeted into the single digits that night. 
Concerns for J.D. were high, as she was lightly dressed in corduroy pants, a
fleece pullover and a toboggan cap.  On Sunday, a Tennessee Highway Patrol
helicopter with infrared detection equipment joined the search along with
numerous state searchers and volunteers.  The Tennessee Emergency Management
Agency (TEMA) provided logistical support.  As searchers were deploying, J.D.,
to searchers collective amazement, appeared at a trailhead parking lot,
suffering only cold feet and dehydration.  She was being debriefed at the time
of the report.  District ranger Kenny Slay was IC.  [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM]

95-767 - Big South Fork (Tennessee/Kentucky) - Assist to Agency; Homicide

On October 28th, ranger Tim Grooms was asked to assist in a search for a body
by police from Lexington, Kentucky.  P.M. had admitted to killing his
roommate, Michael Hall, in August of 1994, then dumping the body in the park. 
P.M. was taken back to the area; a day-long search was conducted, but proved
fruitless.  On December 5th, P.M. was returned to the area and a second
effort was made, this time with the assistance of ranger Mike King.  Hall's
body was found a quarter mile from the park's boundary in the Daniel Boone
National Forest.  Media stories have incorrectly placed the body discovery in
the park.  [F. Graham, CR, BISO]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Fisheries Policy - The Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) have released a draft policy to address the
conservation needs of listed species under the Endangered Species Act, while
providing for the enhancement of recreational fisheries under Section 4 of
Executive Order 12962.  The proposed policy identifies the measures that the
services will take to ensure consistency in the administration of ESA, promote
collaboration with federal, state and tribal fisheries managers, and improve
and increase efforts to inform non-federal entities of ESA requirements while
enhancing recreational fisheries.  It also provides a strategy for USFWS and
NMFS to minimize and resolve conflicts between implementation of the ESA and
activities to enhance recreational fisheries.  The policy will be published in
the Federal Register this week.  A copy of the full text can be obtained in
WP5.1 from Frank Panek, NPS fisheries program manager, by sending him a note on
cc:Mail or by calling him at 703-358-1856.  [Frank Panek, WRD/WASO]

2) U.S. World Heritage Sites - The World Heritage Committee placed Yellowstone
on its "List of the World Heritage in Danger" at its meeting in Berlin,
Germany, last week.  The park was added to the list because of both ascertained
and potential threats to the Yellowstone ecosystem by the proposed mining
operation a few miles from the park.  The committee said that the mine's
activities would endanger three major watersheds of the Yellowstone River,
imperil water quality in the park, destroy important wildlife habitat, and
degrade natural beauty and wilderness.  Other threats were also listed.  There
are now 440 sites on the list, including 17 in the U.S. and two national parks
(Everglades is the other).  During its meeting, the World Heritage Committee
also designated Waterton-Glacier and Carlsbad Caverns to the world heritage
list along with 27 other sites worldwide.  [Dave Harmon, George Wright Society]

MEMORANDA

"1995 Incident Reporting Procedures", signed last week by Associate Director
for Park Operations and Education Maureen Finnerty, and distributed to all park
superintendents.  An advance copy was sent by cc:Mail to all park chief rangers
on November 8th.

OBSERVATIONS

Today's entry is taken from a compendium of "Quotable Quotes" distributed by
Director Newton Drury in the 1950s.  The date of the quote is not known;

"I say to you that unless we keep the stream of the past with living
significance for the present, we not only have no past, we have no present. 
Tradition is not a barren pride in a dead glory; tradition is something that
provides refreshment for the spirit.  It is something that gives us deep
assurance and a sense of destiny and a determination to hold on fast to the
great things that have been done through valor and imagination by those who
have gone before us."

                                                 Justice Felix Frankfurter

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

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