NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT
   
   
   To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices
   
   From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
   
   Day/Date:   Tuesday, January 4, 2000
   
   ALMANAC
   
   On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the waters 
   and islands off the Florida Keys containing the largest all-masonry 
   fortification in the Western Hemisphere as Fort Jefferson National 
   Monument. Congress renamed the area Dry Tortugas National Park in 1992.
   
   VISITOR PROTECTION/PARK MANAGEMENT INCIDENTS
   
   99-759 - Mount Rushmore NM (SD) - Bomb Threat
   
   Nebraska state police and Pennington County (SD) officers reported a 
   possible bomb threat to Mount Rushmore on December 31st. The attack was 
   reportedly going to occur on New Year's Day. The information came from a 
   psychiatrist who was treating a man who said he knew of someone who was 
   going to blow up Mount Rushmore. The man had also threatened to bomb a 
   community named Keystone, which is near the park. Appropriate security 
   measures were taken. No incident occurred. [MWRO, 12/31]
   
   99-760 - Colorado NM (CO) - Suicide
   
   Ranger Bill Rodgers investigated a suspicious vehicle parked at Cold 
   Shivers overlook on the morning of December 31st. He hiked to a vantage 
   point where he was able to see what appeared to be a body in Columbus 
   Canyon, 400 feet below the rim. Rodgers and members of the county 
   technical rescue team rappelled into the canyon and confirmed the 
   fatality. A raising system was set up and the body was recovered. The 
   victim has been identified as John Heinecke of Grand Junction; the death 
   has been ruled a suicide. [Ron Young, CR, COLM, 1/1, 1/3]
   
   99-761 - Monocacy NB (MD) - Sexual Assault
   
   On December 29th, rangers learned of a rape that had occurred in the park 
   earlier in the month. A battered, partially clothed, 33-year-old woman 
   appeared in a local hotel lobby at 3 a.m. on December 18th and asked for 
   police. She reported that she'd been abducted by three men outside a 
   nightclub in Frederick and had then been driven around the city and 
   county, eventually ending up in the park near the Monocacy River. All 
   three then raped her. She was able to strike one of the men in the head 
   with her boot, then escape. Investigating detectives from Frederick were 
   unaware that they were in the park until later. They are continuing their 
   investigation; the NPS and FBI will monitor the case and assist or assume 
   control if needed. [Tom Kopczyk, CR, MONO, 12/31]
   
   RESOURCE PROTECTION INCIDENTS
   
   99-762 - Everglades NP (FL) - Poaching Conviction
   
   Stanley Holland, 34, of Miami, was charged with four violations of CFR 
   after rangers from Everglades NP saw him kill a deer on park lands on 
   October 31, 1998. On October 1, 1999, Holland entered guilty pleas on two 
   counts - illegally taking wildlife and discharging a firearm inside the 
   park. The other two violations were dismissed as part of the plea 
   agreement. Holland will pay a $2,500 fine, forfeit the rifle he used to 
   shoot the deer, be banned from Everglades NP and Biscayne NP for a year, 
   and permitted to enter Big Cypress NP only to travel to property he owns 
   on an inholding there. He has also been placed on a year's probation. [Jim 
   Sanborn, DR, EVER, 1/3]
   
   CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
   
   No submissions.
   
   OPERATIONAL NOTES
   
   No submissions.
   
   MEMORANDA
   
   No submissions.
   
   INTERCHANGE
   
   No submissions.
   
   PARKS AND PEOPLE
   
   No submissions.
   
   
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   Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation 
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