NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Tuesday, January 16, 2001

INCIDENTS

01-012 - Everglades NP (FL) - Concession Employee Killed in MVA

On January 9th, ranger Kent Looney was contacted by AMFAC, a 
concession in the park's Flamingo District, regarding a missing 
employee. W.J. of Seward, Alaska, had recently been hired 
by AMFAC as a tour boat captain. His wife, who lives in El Paso, 
Texas, reported that she'd last heard from him on January 6th, when he 
told her he was going out for a motorcycle ride. AMFAC contacted 
Looney when W.J. failed to appear for work. Rangers searched the 
Flamingo area and began a missing persons investigation. The NCIC 
entry that they filed received responses from the Florida Highway 
Patrol and Miami-Dade and Hialeah police. The subsequent inquiry led 
to the determination that W.J. had been killed in a single-vehicle 
motorcycle accident on a major expressway in Miami-Dade County. [CRO, 
EVER, 1/11]

FIRE MANAGEMENT

National Fire Plan

No new information. Please check the NPS Fire Management Program 
Center web page (www.fire.nps.gov) for further information on fire 
plan projects.

Park Fires

No fires reported.

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

Indiana Dunes NL (IN) - Richard Littlefield, the park's chief ranger, 
will retire next month after more than 34 years in the NPS. Dick has 
been chief ranger at Indiana Dunes since September, 1981. Littlefield 
says his choice of professions was greatly influenced by his uncle, a 
park ranger for the state of California. After graduating from 
Sacramento State and working as a seasonal in the California state 
parks, Dick landed his first permanent NPS job at Grand Canyon in the 
fall of 1966. His career since then has been dominated, as he says, by 
"boats and water," including tours at Lake Meredith (66-70), Virgin 
Islands (70-73), Cape Hatteras (73-75) Gulf Islands (75-78) and the 
Pacific Northwest Regional Office (78-81). Dick has chosen to retire 
on Groundhog Day, February 2nd. If you have cards, notes, funny 
stories or photos to be shared at his retirement party on February 
1st, please contact Joni Jones by cc:Mail or at 219-926-7561 x320. [Al 
Nash, PAO, INDU]

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