NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, February 15, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET (Delayed today)

INCIDENTS

96-51 - Chickamauga/Chattanooga (Georgia) - Follow-up on Oil Spill

On the evening of February 13th, park personnel and Colonial Pipeline
geologists detected fuel oil fumes emanating from holes in the Sanders Road
area on Lookout Mountain - about a mile uphill from the site of the spill.  As
a result of this new development, the park is organizing a response team to
determine the extent of the exposure, establish an air and water quality
monitoring program, and develop action plans.  The whereabouts of the 60,000
gallons of oil that leaked from the line is still unknown.  [Sam Weddle, CR,
CHCH]

96-59 - Ozark (Missouri) - Structural Fire

Two scenic easement cabins at Williams Landing burned during the early morning
hours of Sunday, February 11th.  Rangers assisted in suppression efforts.  Two
acres of surrounding brush land also burned.  Preliminary investigation points
to faulty construction as the cause of the blaze.  [Mark Mitts, North Unit
Manager, OZAR]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Glacier (Montana) - Wolf Fatality

The carcass of a radio-collared adult female wolf was discovered on Kintla Lake
on February 10th.  Rangers skied into the area and retrieved the carcass the
following morning.  Warm temperatures and thawing had obliterated tracks at the
scene of the kill.  The wolf was a member of the North Camas pack, which has
historically occupied a territory in the North Fork area of the park and was
last monitored at Upper Kintla Lake on January 29th.  The carcass will be sent
to Fish and Wildlife's forensics lab in Oregon for a necropsy to ascertain, if
possible, the cause of death and determine the physical condition, age and
presence of any disease organisms.  This is the third wolf carcass found in
this area of the park this winter.  The other two, both males, may have been
killed by wolves from the South Camas pack.  [Amy Vanderbilt, PIO, GLAC]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Lyme Disease Information - The Lyme Disease Foundation, a national voluntary
health organization dedicated to eradicating Lyme and other tick-borne
illnesses, has a newsletter with information on Lyme disease available for free
in electronic and print form.  To subscribe, send a message via Internet to
listserv@lehigh.edu.  In the body of the message write: subscribe lymenet-1
FName LName (that is, first name, last name).  If you are setting up a
redistribution list, which may have an address something like
"lymenet@something.gov", please so note so that the editor can add the address
to his list.  More information can be obtained at http://www.lymenet.org/, or
by contacting Marc Gabriel at one of the following addresses: marc@eclipse.net,
a229@lehigh.edu, or marc_gabriel@lymenet.org.  [Gerry McCrea, IPM Coordinator,
Southwest SSO]

2) National Register Nominations - A new, updated version of the National
Register Bulletin (#23) on improving the quality of photographs for National
Register nominations is now available in Word Perfect via cc:Mail.  It can be
obtained from Mary McCutchan at NP-WASO-NRHE.  That office is also interested
in receiving comments and suggestions on the document by April 12th.  They
should be forwarded to the same office.  [Mary McCutchan, NRHE/WASO]

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

OBSERVATIONS

Today's entry was sent in by Marianne Mills at Badlands:

"We need the tonic of wilderness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the dipper
and the waterfowl lurk; to smell the whispering grasses.  At the same time that
we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be
mysterious and unexplorable, that land and water be infinitely wild, unsurveyed
and unfathomed by us.  We can never have enough nature.  We must be refreshed
by the sigh of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the wilderness
with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud and the rain that
lasts three weeks.  We need to witness our own limits surpassed and some life
roaming freely where we may never wander."

                                              Henry David Thoreau

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