RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date:  Friday, May 24, 1991

INCIDENTS

91-170 - Joshua Tree (California) - Marijuana Raid

On May 22nd, a team from Joint Task Force Six, the military drug 
interdiction group which works along the U.S. border, discovered 
a marijuana plantation in the Fan Hill area near the park's 
south boundary, a region notorious for illegal chemical 
laboratories in the past.  Riverside sheriff's deputies and U.S. 
Customs officers subsequently raided the plantation and 
confiscated 3,356 plants valued at $6.7 million and arrested one 
adult male.  Most of the mature plants were ten feet high. [Paul 
Henry, CR, JOTR, via CompuServe report from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 
5/22]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) The Valor Awards being given by the Department of Agriculture 
to the three members of the Alpine Interagency Hotshot Crew (as 
per yesterday's morning report) will be bestowed on them on June 
1112 at the Hyatt Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.  [J.T. Reynolds, 
RAD/RMRO]

THIS DAY IN NPS SAR HISTORY...

May 24, 1987 - Stephen Underwood, a resource specialist at Lava 
Beds, rescues a man from a cavein.  He later received the DOI 
Valor Award and Carnegie Hero Award for his efforts.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource & Visitor Protection: Sisto at planning course at
Santa Monica Mountains (5/20-5/24); Halainen on AL (5/24).

Branch of Fire: Hurd at NWCG meeting, Boston, MA (5/22-5/24); Botti
attending orientation to fire science lab, Missoula, MT (5/20-5/23);
Cook training Arrowhead Hotshot Crew, Sequoia (5/20-5/23); Broyles and
Farrel at fireline safety committee meeting, Boston, MA (5/20-5/24);
Norum working on wildfire response procedures, Fairbanks, AK (5/19-5/25).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities