NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Tuesday, October 31, 2000

ALMANAC

On this date in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation 
creating Poverty Point National Monument, Louisiana.  It contains some 
of the largest prehistoric earthworks in North America from a culture 
that flourished in the first and second millennia B.C.

INCIDENTS

00-676 - Prince William Forest Park (VA) - Death of Employee

On October 30th, chief ranger Louis Wesselhoft passed away after a 
long and courageous battle with cancer. Louis began his career in the 
NPS in 1973. He worked at several sites, and had served as chief 
ranger at Prince William since the summer of 1984. A memorial service 
will be held in the Virgin Islands at a later date.  Condolences may 
be sent to his family in care of A.W., P.O. Box 205, Cruz 
Bay St. John, U.S. Virgin Island  00831. [Norma Smith, PRWI, 10/30]

CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Saguaro NP (AZ) - Cultural Resource Protection

In 1986, Arizona State Parks, in conjunction with the Arizona State 
Historic Preservation Office, developed a program to help public land 
managers deal with the increasing threat to cultural resources 
throughout the state.  The Arizona  Site Steward Program trains 
volunteers to conduct condition assessments at archeological sites and 
report vandalism or theft from sites that are classified as 
particularly vulnerable by land managers. Saguaro has been utilizing 
site stewards since 1993, and the results have been very beneficial.  
Several cases and convictions have been made on reports that have been 
turned in by site stewards.  During 1999 alone, the stewards 
volunteered a total of 226 hours in 58 visits to sites in the park.  
During 1998 and 1999, Saguaro rangers investigated 15 ARPA cases, 
including the removal of a petroglyph panel, individuals climbing on 
and damaging a petroglyph site, individuals attempting to collect 
arrowheads and artifacts, an illegal dig at a Hohokam burial site, 
theft of cultural resources, looting of sites for potsherds, and entry 
into closed sites.   Site stewards reported three of these incidents 
to the rangers. In an effort to increase protection of the park 
cultural resources, park volunteers were added to the monitoring 
effort as part of the program this year.  Volunteers from both the 
interpretation and visitor and resource protection divisions attended 
a 10-hour training class conducted by the state.  Course topics 
included antiquity and ARPA laws, site and feature identification, map 
reading and desert survival.  There are now 34 trained stewards 
monitoring 11 high threat/high visibility sites in the park.  The 
stewards supplement patrols (checks at different times of the day, 
week and season), monitoring, sensor use, and surveillance by rangers. 
 Please contact ranger Carin Harvey at 520-733-5126 if you would like 
more information on these cultural resource protection efforts. (Paula 
Nasiatka, CR, SAGU)   

INTERPRETATION AND VISITOR SERVICES

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No submissions.

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

INTERCHANGE

No submissions.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

FLETC (GA) - The Park Police graduated a class of recruits in August, 
many of whom were honored for distinguished performance. Rory Moore 
earned the FLETC/USPP honor graduate award, which goes to the highest 
ranked recruit who attains 95% or better in all areas of testing, and 
the Hawkins award,  given to the highest ranked recruit. He will 
accordingly be in contention for the FLETC honor graduate of the year 
award. Denise Mettee and Matthew Harrison, the two runners-up for the 
honor graduate award, were presented with distinguished graduate 
awards. Moore had the highest academic score (98.58 out of 100), the 
highest firearms score (298 out of 300), and the highest PEB score 
(500 out of 500). Jeffrey Bloch scored 300 out of 300 in the driving 
portion of the course and was named top driver. Three other recruits 
scored over 95 in academics, 15 others qualified as experts with 
firearms, ten others scored above 475 on the PEB, and five others also 
scored 300 on driving. [Sgt. Robert Maclean, USPP, NCR]

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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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