NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Tuesday, October 10, 2000

ALMANAC

On this date in 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legislation 
creating Boston African American National Historic Site. It includes 
the African Meeting House, the oldest standing black church in the 
United States, and other sites linked by Boston's Black Heritage 
Trail.

INCIDENTS

00-633 - Zion NP (UT) - Rescue

A 33-year-old climber suffered multiple traumatic injuries when he 
rappelled off the short end of his doubled rope as he completed a 
climb of the Grasshopper route on October 8th. E.W. free fell 
about 20 feet, then tumbled another 20 to 30 feet. His partner, I.W., 
flagged down a park shuttle and got the operator to request 
medical assistance. Rangers and a park medic responded. E.W. was 
treated for a severe head injury, flail chest (six or seven broken 
ribs), a pneumothorax with subcutaneous emphysema, fractures of both 
clavicles, a fractured right wrist and hand, and multiple head, hand 
and arm lacerations. He was flown to the trauma center in Las Vegas 
for treatment. [Aniceto Olais, CR, ZION, 10/9]

00-634 - North Cascades NP (WA) - Money Smuggling

Acting on a tip, district ranger Hugh Dougher stopped two rental boats 
on Ross Lake on October 6th. Four people were detained and questioned. 
During the interviews, one of them admitted that the group had been 
hired to transport a large sum of money across the border into Canada. 
He told Dougher that no one in the group knew the amount that they had 
just dropped off nor the identities of the people who'd received the 
money. They admitted to having been paid $700 to smuggle the money. 
This incident confirms intelligence reports that large sums of money 
are being smuggled into Canada through the park as payment for 
marijuana being smuggled south into the United States. [Pete Cowan, 
CR, NOCA, 10/7]

FIRE SITUATION

Fire reports are being suspended due to the dearth of activity 
nationwide. They will resume if circumstances warrant.

CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

INTERPRETATION AND VISITOR SERVICES

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No submissions.

MEMORANDA

"Servicewide Recruitment Notice - Fire Management Mentoring," sent to 
each region and park on October 6th. The full text - but NOT the 
attachments - follows:

"It is acknowledged by the federal wildland firefighting agencies that 
over the next three to seven years there will be a dramatic loss of 
firefighting personnel, both within the fire management organizations 
and within the ranks of those available for incident response.   In 
the National Park Service alone, we are approaching a 50% loss of our 
mid-to-upper level fire management personnel.   Within the Department 
of the Interior, this loss ranges from 22-57% for Command and General 
Staff members and Unit Leaders. 

"The National Park Service is committed to developing our personnel to 
levels that will provide the profess ional capability required to 
manage our wildland fire management program, meet our obligations to 
the interagency community, and provide our direct involvement with 
incident management teams.  To accomplish this, the Fire Management 
Mentoring Program was implemented in 1999.

"The purpose of the Fire Management Mentoring Program is to facilitate 
the development of all our employees by tapping the knowledge and 
experience within the service in a personal, interactive manner.  We 
will use this voluntary program to mitigate the loss of organizational 
knowledge and institutional memory and to help our employees achieve 
their fullest potential.  Although, in the long term the program is 
likely to enhance some careers, it is explicitly not a career 
placement program.  As we move into the 21st Century, the mentoring 
program will help address the issues that the National Park Service 
and its employees' face as new generations move into the work force.

"The basis of this program is to foster mentoring relationships among 
all NPS personnel.  There are three types of mentoring: informal, 
formal, and supervisory. Informal and supervisory mentoring occurs 
constantly throughout the Service a result of personal and 
professional relationships.  The Fire Management Mentoring program is 
formal and voluntary.  It focuses on fostering a relationship between 
two people, one of whom is senior in experience and skill (the 
mentor), with the purpose of promoting the growth and development of 
the employee (the mentee) according to a mutually understood set of 
goals.  It is a long-term learning process that focuses on more than a 
particular professional skill or discipline.  The program capitalizes 
on career life experience gained throughout a professional career and 
passing that knowledge on to others.

"The third generation training will commence the spring of the year 
2001 with 15 mentors and 15 mentees. The expected timelines for this 
program are as follows:

Application deadline                            December 15, 2000
Mentee/mentor pool match                        January 19, 2001
Letter to mentee with mentor profiles           January 31, 2001
Mentee selection of mentor                      February 28, 2001
Formal training (2-3 days) for mentee/mentor    April 23, 2001
Agreements signed/to coordinator                May 11, 2001

"This program will directly benefit both the Service and the 
participating employees. Costs of the Program will be borne by the 
Fire Management Program Center. 

"The program is open to all employees who are currently in fire 
management positions or have a strong interest in participating and 
supporting Fire or Incident Management activities, locally or at the 
National level.

"Anyone wishing to participate in this program, as a mentor or a 
mentee should apply by the application deadline, nomination forms are 
attached. For information on the NPS Fire Management Mentoring Program 
contact: Bill Adams, Fire Management Mentoring Coordinator, National 
Park Service, Fire Management Program Center - NIFC, 3833 S. 
Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho 83705-5354. Telephone: 208-387-5219. 
Email: bill_adams@nps.gov"

INTERCHANGE

No submissions.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

Several submissions pending.

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address requests pertaining to receipt of the Morning Report to your 
servicing hub coordinator.  The Morning Report is also available on 
the web at http://www.nps.gov/morningreport

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

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