NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, April 25, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-685 - Yosemite (California) - Follow-up on Car Clout Arrest

Yesterday's Morning Report contained a report of the conviction of car
clouter J.D. on a vehicle theft charge and his March 25th sentencing
to six months in jail and another three years of supervised release.  Since
the original report said that he was to be released this month, clarification
was sought from the park prior to inclusion of that information in the MR. 
Dan Horner has elaborated on what transpired and provided some additional
information on Mr. J.D.'s fate.  Since J.D. was arrested six months ago and
held until his sentencing, he had accrued almost six months of "credit for
time served."  That meant he would be freed on April 12th.  Unfortunately for
J.D., that event did not take place.  A federal arrest warrant from Wyoming
was served on him before he was released, and he is still in custody.  It
appears that J.D. was on supervised release probation from federal district
court for auto burglaries in the Tetons and Yellowstone.  His probation has
been revoked because of the Yosemite arrest, and he will probably serve the
rest of his full sentence (three years of supervised release) in custody. 
[Dan Horner, LEO, YOSE]

96-165 - Boston (Massachusetts) - Special Event

The park hosted the Canadian helicopter destroyer escort HMCS Nipigon at the
Charlestown Navy Yard from April 12th to the 16th.  The ship was in Boston to
help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, which had 3,000
Canadian participants.  The park and Canadian consulate hosted an afternoon
reception for the Canadian runners and supporters on the 13th, and another
reception that evening for Canadian Johnny Miles, the oldest living Boston
Marathon champion.  Over 5,000 visitors, many of them Canadian, visited the
yard during the weekend to view the ship and join in the festivities.  There
were no incidents.  The navy yard continues to serve as a world class port of
call for visiting ships and dignitaries from around the world.  Since the
inception of the visiting ship program in 1976, the park has hosted over 5000
ships, and 1996 promises to be a busy year.  [Ellen Fusco, BOST]

96-166 - Minute Man (Massachusetts) - Special Events

Ten special events were held at the park during the month of April in
commemoration of the opening battle of the American Revolution.  Planning for
the events involved about a dozen local town officials, 350 reenactors, and
1,500 participants.  An estimated 15,000 visitors attended, 9,000 for the
annual Patriot's Day parade alone.  Rangers from Cape Cod, Saugus Iron Works,
Lowell, Salem Maritime, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt, and Boston provided assistance
in crowd and traffic control.  Pursuant to the special threat advisory issued
by the FBI and park incidents in the past involving demonstrations and
explosives, Minute Man rangers kept a close eye on park facilities and on
activities near the North Bridge during the period before and after April
19th.  There were no disruptions or threats.  [Flo Smith, MIMA]

96-167 - Big Cypress (Florida) - Marijuana Seizure, Arrest

Park employees discovered a large scale marijuana cultivation operation on
private land within the park on April 22nd.  Late that afternoon, rangers and
county deputies flew to the site via helicopter.  They arrested William Hart,
52, on drug-related charges, and seized about 425 four to seven-foot high
plants, 120 seedlings, and 20 to 25 pounds of packaged marijuana ready for
sale.  County detectives and DEA agents are continuing their investigation. 
Hart has a record of prior drug convictions.  [Bill Carroll, CR, BICY]

FIRE ACTIVITY

No report today due to early release of the Morning Report.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Yount Award - Tomie Patrick Lee, chief of ranger and interpretive activities
at Glen Canyon, has been selected as this year's winner of the Harry Yount
National Park Ranger Award.  The national award is scheduled to be presented
to her by President Clinton at a special ceremony at the White House.  The
award, named after Harry Yount, who is generally given credit for being the
first national park ranger, is given for excellence in "rangering."  The
national honoree receives an original sculptured bust of Harry Yount and a
cash honorarium of $3,000.  Lee, who has a BA in resource land management and
police science from Northern Arizona University, began her ranger career at
Tuzigoot after graduating from NAU in 1975, then transferred to Glen Canyon
in 1977 as the park's interpretive specialist.  She soon became the
supervisory park ranger responsible for the Wahweap Subdistrict, a position
she held until 1982.  Following tours at Pinnacles and Wupatki, Lee served
for five years as an instructor at FLETC, then returned to Glen Canyon in
1993 to assume her current position.  In addition to her skills in
interpretation and resource and visitor protection, Lee served a one-year
detail as a chief of park maintenance.  She's also served on wildland fires,
as a critical incident stress debriefing team leader in southern Florida
after Hurricane Andrew, and as a program evaluation team member reviewing NPS
operations and establishing operations policies.  Lee was selected from a
group of six field area award recipients.  The others are Daniel Baker,
Minute Man; John Howard, Antietam; Jerry Chilton, Herbert Hoover; Bill
Lester, Pinnacles; and Ken Kehrer, Alaska.  Each field area recipient
received a specially made plaque with a metal photo of William Henry
Jackson's photograph of Yount and a $1,750 cash honorarium.  [John Townsend,
MWFDO]

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

EXCHANGE

Impoundment Forms - Olympic is seeking copies of any form that parks use for
impounds.  They're currently using USPP Form 43-04, revised in August, 1987. 
They've exhausted all sources and have been unable to reorder it without a
special order printing.  If you have a form that's functional and readily
available, please contact Karen Messaros at NP-OLYM.

OBSERVATIONS

"We [in America] enjoy comforts never known before, but they are not enough;
somehow, someway, we must make contact with naturalness, the source of all
life.  The frontiers are still too close to forget and the memory of
wilderness goes far back into the eons when man lived close to the earth and
was in tune with the ancient rhythms.  We still listen to the song of the
wilderness and longs for a land we have lost.  Civilization has not changed
emotional needs which were ours long before it arose.  This is the reason for
the hunger, the true meaning of wilderness and the search of moderns for
places where they can know it again.  The battle to save the last remnants is
not only a struggle for freedom and beauty, but for the spirit of man in a
world that seems to have lost its balance and perspective."

                                      Author and former Wilderness
                                      Society president Sigurd Olson,
                                      1973

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