NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                              MORNING REPORT
   
   
   To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices
   
   From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
   
   Day/Date:   Tuesday, January 25, 2000
   
   ALMANAC
   
   On this day in 1787, poor farmers led by Daniel Shays tried to seize the 
   arms in the federal arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, in order to 
   forcibly resist foreclosure on their lands, but they were driven off by 
   artillery fire from the state militia.  Springfield Armory National 
   Historic Site includes the site of the arsenal.
   
   INCIDENTS
   
   00-014 - Canaveral NS (FL) - ARPA/NAGPRA Case
   
   On August 27, 1995, C.C., an amateur archeologist, advised 
   rangers that he'd found some human bones, metal, old glass and granite 
   rocks in the archeologically significant and sensitive lagoon area of the 
   park. C.C. had made maps of the site indicating where the items had 
   been found and had marked each with letters and numbers. He showed rangers 
   the site and made arrangements to turn in the items he'd recovered. On 
   August 9th, park staff and a regional archeologist accompanied B.B., 
   a Semiole medicine man, to the site, where B.B. performed a 
   burial ceremony for the remains. C.C. was later fined a civil penalty 
   of over $300. On November 18, 1996, local police arrested D.G. 
   on drug charges and found human skull pieces with markings on them in his 
   possession. During the associated interview, the officer determined that 
   D.G. knew that the fragments came from a Native American burial site 
   in the park. He was also able to describe the exact location where the 
   skull fragments had been buried the previous year. The bones were later 
   confirmed as the bones from the C.C. case. D.G. denied that he'd 
   dug them up and said that a companion, Steve Anderson, had been with him 
   when he'd received them from a third party. Anderson confirmed D.G.'s 
   story, but was also able to describe the exact location where the 
   fragments had been buried in 1995. All of this information was turned over 
   to the assistant U.S. attorney in 1997. On January 5th, rangers served an 
   arrest warrant on D.G., charging him with ARPA (18 USC 470) and NAGPRA 
   (18 USC 1170) violations and theft of government property (18 USC 641). He 
   was placed under a $10,000 bond and required to submit to urinalysis for 
   drug use. He is currently in county jail. [John Diefenbach, CANA, 1/23]
   
   CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
   
   No submissions.
   
   OPERATIONAL NOTES
   
   Law Enforcement Study Update - On January 14th, the director mandated a 
   study of the Service's law enforcement program by the International 
   Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). See the Morning Report of that 
   date for the full text. Mike Finley, superintendent of Yellowstone NP, has 
   been named as the study team leader; Paul Henry,  NPS superintendent at 
   FLETC, will serve as advisor; chief rangers Cindy Ott-Jones (Glen Canyon 
   NRA) and Aniceto Olais (Zion NP) will serve as liaisons between the study 
   team and the field. Finley has convened a focus group to meet at FLETC on 
   February 7th to make recommendations on the components of the study review 
   and more accurately define the study objectives. Treasury/FLETC employee 
   Randy Marcy will facilitate this meeting. Attending (along with the above) 
   will be:
   
   o     Jerry Needle, program and research director, IACP
   o     Dr. Bob Ford, Central Florida University
   o     Jim Loach, Midwest Regional Office
   o     Mary Martin, Mojave NP
   o     Dale Antonich, Lake Mead NRA
   o     Bill Blake, Death Valley NP
   o     Jim Martin, Hawaii Volcanoes NP
   o     JR Tomasovic, Gulf Islands NS
   o     John Mattox, Great Smoky Mountains NP
   o     Paul Berkowitz, Grand Canyon NP
   o     Dwayne Collier, Southern Arizona Group
   o     Maureen Finnerty, Washington Office
   o     Greg Jackson, Santa Monica Mountains NRA and FOP
   
   The meeting will precede this year's criminal investigator training 
   conference, which will begin on February 8th. This arrangement will give 
   IACP and scoping group members access to the agents and others who will be 
   attending the conference. Finley will arrive at FLETC on the 8th to review 
   the results of the scoping group's recommendations and to meet with the 
   IACP, FLETC staff and the agents attending the conference. [Paul Henry, 
   FLETC]
   
   Management Policies - The new draft edition of NPS management policies, 
   called "Management Policies 2000," has been released. A Federal Register 
   notice of availability invites public review and comment, with a closing 
   date of March 20th. Parks should be aware that the notice states that a 
   copy will be available at each park for review. In addition to parks and 
   regional offices, hard copies of the draft are being distributed to a 
   fairly large mailing list of individuals and organizations who are 
   interested in NPS issues.  The document  is also available on the NPS web 
   site at www.nps.gov/refdesk/policies.html. The policies were last updated 
   in 1988; the new draft brings the Service into conformity with new laws 
   that have been enacted, changes in technology and American demographics, 
   and new understandings of what we must do to protect the natural and 
   cultural resources of the national parks. The new edition will enable the 
   Service to protect park resources and values as Congress intended when it 
   passed the 1916 NPS Organic Act and the 1978 amendment to the General 
   Authorities Act. Comments should be sent to the NPS Office of Policy, Room 
   2414, Main Interior Building, Washington, D.C. 20240, no later than March 
   20th.  Comments may also be sent via email to chick_fagan@nps.gov.  Please 
   call 202-208-7456 for more information. [Marcia Keener, WASO]
   
   Radio Information Station Service - Information Station Specialists (ISS), 
   the company that has furnished most of the Service's traveler information 
   station equipment ("roadside radio") will be sending a technician on a 
   trip covering sites in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, 
   Washington and Oregon.  They have offered to include as many parks as 
   possible in the technician's itinerary.  If you're interested, you can 
   request a visit or more detailed information by addressing an email 
   message to Bill Baker at bill@issinfosite.com.  ISS expects to charge the 
   benefiting account just $30 per hour, plus per diem for an overnight stay 
   and the mileage that departs from the technician's prescribed route.  For 
   most locations, this would be a total cost of somewhere between $150 and 
   $175.  [Frank P. Weed, WASO]
   
   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 
   and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.
   
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