NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Monday, October 16, 2000

ALMANAC

On this date in 1970, President Richard Nixon signed legislation 
creating Fort Point National Historic Site in San Francisco.  The 
classic brick and granite mid-19th-century coastal fort is the only 
one of its type on the west coast of the United States.

INCIDENTS

00-641 - Intermountain Support Office (NM) - Follow-up: ARPA/NAGPRA    
         Case

Last Thursday's report on the assistance the NPS is providing to the 
state of New Mexico on an ARPA/NAGPRA investigation stated that four 
men had been arrested for damage to the Cienega site, a 13th century 
pueblo. The men were in fact charged with the violation of state 
statutes but not arrested. (The error was on the part of the editor, 
not the reporter). Cienega was excavated both by hand and by 
mechanized equipment. Damage was inflicted on over 5,000 cubic meters 
of material, including large room blocks and a midden that was removed 
and spread out over a large area. Damage was also inflicted on another 
site called Mirabal, where over 670 cubic meters of material was 
damaged. The damage estimate there was under $300,000. BIA also 
assisted on this case. [Phil Young, SA, IMSO, 10/13]

00-651 - Bryce Canyon NP (UT) - Assist: Airline In-flight Emergency

On October 6th, Garfield County dispatch asked the park's fire brigade 
to assist on an aircraft emergency at Bryce Canyon Airport, located 
just west of the park's northern boundary. An American Airlines MD 
Super 80 en route from Denver to Los Angeles had reportedly 
experienced depressurization and had smoke in its cockpit. The fire 
brigade and many other employees responded along with ambulance and 
fire units from the area. The plane landed safely. No fire was 
discovered, and all of the passengers and crew exited the plane 
without incident. Park staff helped provide logistical support for 
passengers, assisting in briefings and arranging for transportation. 
The pilot was unable to restart the plane's engines, so it had to be 
towed off the runway by a local towing service. Bryce Valley Airport 
is part of a nationwide system of airports built in the 1930s in 
strategic locations throughout the country to provide spots for 
emergency landings. The airport has a 7,400-foot runway. The crew of 
the MD Super 80 was attempting to land the plane in Las Vegas, but the 
emergency required a more immediate landing. [Clyde Stonaker, 
Protection Branch Manager, BRCA, 10/12]

00-652 - Bryce Canyon NP (UT) - Assault Arrests

Two AMFAC concession employees - D.C. and C.C. - were 
arrested last week following a violent altercation in a 
concession-operated recreation hall. D.C. allegedly assaulted C.C. 
with a knife. A concession security guard attempted to intervene and 
called on rangers for assistance. When the rangers arrived, the fight 
was still in progress. An expandable baton had to be used to force 
C.C. to back out of the fight; when he failed to heed repeated 
attempts to comply, the rangers employed OC spray to subdue him. D.C. 
was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. C.C. was charged 
with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest under state law. [Clyde 
Stonaker, Protection Branch Manager, BRCA, 10/12]

                  [Additional reports pending...]

CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

INTERPRETATION AND VISITOR SERVICES

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No submissions.

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

INTERCHANGE

No submissions.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

Bryce Canyon NP (UT) - The park has issued a vacancy announcement for 
up to four GS-025-7/9 resource protection rangers (BRCA-01-01, closes 
on October 27th).  These positions will be subject to furlough, with a 
minimum furlough of two pay periods and a maximum of eight pay 
periods.  These positions offer responsibilities and experience in a 
wide variety of traditional protection functions, while utilizing 
"resource-based rangering" concepts.  A balance of emergency service 
programs (law enforcement, emergency medicine, search and rescue, 
structural and wildland fire), resource stewardship (exotic plants, 
air quality, backcountry ops, trails, boundary fence, hazard trees, 
etc.) and resource education (on and offsite programs, informal and 
formal interpretative activities) is emphasized.  Contact chief ranger 
Rob Danno or protection branch manager Clyde Stonaker for more 
information. 

Glen Canyon NRA (AZ/UT) - The park is recruiting for a GS-1101-9/11 
revenue and fee business manager. Applications will be accepted from 
current federal employees, career conditional appointments, candidates 
with reinstatement eligibility, candidates eligible for special 
appointing authority, or veterans after three or more years of 
continuous service. The announcement number is GLCA-MP-00-28; it 
closes on October 25th.

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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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