NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, February 19, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

97-58 - Kaloko-Honokohau NHP (Hawaii) - Illegal Trespass; Evictions

An interagency task force comprised of about 50 rangers and law enforcement
officers evicted the Pai family and several sympathizers from the park and
adjacent state land at dawn on the morning of Friday, February 14th.  The
family had been illegally occupying park lands since they refused to sign a
continuing special use permit in 1993 and claimed native rights to the area. 
Participating along with park rangers were officers from the U.S. Park
Police, U.S. Marshal Service, Hawaii Department of Lands and Natural
Resources (DLNR) and Hawaii Police Department.  The operation was supported
by a DEA helicopter and a Coast Guard C-130 which flew the arrest van,
vehicles and marshals to the park from Honolulu during the early morning
hours.  The action resulted in one federal arrest and eight state arrests for
interfering with an officer.  The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Service
spent the last year planning the removal.  A district court judge signed a
federal eviction notice on February 10th, thereby setting the eviction
process in motion.  The cleanup of the property has been underway since
Friday; DLNR and NPS staff have removed and stored personal property and have
hauled seven, 40-foot dumpsters of debris from the land.  Several hazardous
materials sites have been identified where paint, acid and other wastes were
dumped.  NPS efforts were managed by the Pacific West regional all-risk
management team.  [Dwayne Collier, IC, IMT, 2/18]

97-59 - Natural Bridges NM (Utah) - Falling Fatality

C.C., 48, of Monticello, Utah, fell to her death while
sightseeing in the park with her husband on the afternoon of February 17th. 
The C.C.s were near the top of the Sipapu Bridge trail when Mrs. C.C.
left the trail to take a photo near the edge of a 70-foot cliff.  According
to Mr. C.C., she crouched with her camera to take a picture; he looked away
for a moment, and was gone when he turned back.  He then picked his way
through dense brush on a steep, snow-covered slope to reach his wife, who
showed no signs of life.  Responding rangers Dougan and Poulson soon reached
the victim and determined that she'd died from her injuries.  The county
sheriff's department and rescue squad assisted in the complicated body
retrieval, which was undertaken after dark.  [Jim Dougan, CR, GRSM, 2/18]

97-60 - National Capital Parks East (D.C.) - Assault on Officer

Park Police officer I.P. Edwards sustained minor injuries when he was
assaulted while attempting to apprehend an individual for a traffic offense
on February 17th.  Edwards spotted an untagged vehicle and stopped it.  As he
approached, the driver got out and began to struggle with Edwards.  Edwards
utilized pepper spray, causing the driver to jump back into the vehicle and
flea.  A pursuit ensued, during which the suspect hit several parked vehicles
and eventually struck Edwards' cruiser and forced it and his own vehicle into
a tree.  The driver then fled on foot.  Edwards sustained head and rib
injuries in the accident and was therefore unable to pursue him.  He was
taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.  The
investigation continues.  [Bill Lynch, LES, NCRO, 2/18]

97-61 - Clara Barton Parkway (D.C.) - MVA with Fatality

A.S., 85, of Brooklyn, New York, was killed in a motor vehicle
accident near Chain Bridge about a half hour after midnight on February 15th. 
A.S. was heading east on the parkway when his vehicle crossed the center
line and hit a second vehicle head-on.  The occupants of the second vehicle
were uninjured.  [Bill Lynch, LES, NCRO, 2/18]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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OPERATIONAL NOTES

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MEMORANDA

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EXCHANGE

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OBSERVATIONS

This section, which appears intermittently in the Morning Report, contains
observations regarding the National Park Service, the System and the several
professions of park employees.  Today's observation is another in a series on
historical sites excerpted from the Department's 1951 collection of quotes on
the parks.

"Americans as a general rule build impermanently and as a result follow a
practice of making sweeping changes from time to time.  Thus many historic
sites are altered or wiped out altogether.  An early log cabin, a dilapidated
mansion, an Indian mound, fundamentally characteristic of the American scene,
may seem to the persons with an individual point of view to stand in the way
of progress.  But, actually, such buildings may be an invaluable state or
national asset, as real as a hundred square miles of forest and more
completely irreplaceable when lost.  Such structures provide us with a
feeling of continuity in our development, as they recall to our minds our
most valuable traditions, such as pioneer courage or the general social
impulses of colonial days...they give us faith in our ancestry, and they
provide us with visual symbols to join in our minds our past and future
development."

                                  Director Arno Cammerer, 1933-1940,
                                  from "Quotable Quotes: Relating to
                                  Conservation in General and the
                                  National Parks in Particular,"
                                  Department of Interior, 1951

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