- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Monday, May 6, 1996
- Date: Mon, 6 May 1996
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Monday, May 6, 1996
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
96-171 - Bandelier (New Mexico) - Follow-up on Park Closure
The park, which was closed to the public for seven days due to visitor safety
concerns associated with the Dome Fire, reopened to the public on Saturday,
May 4th. Open to the public at present are the visitor center and associated
gift shop and snack bar, Juniper campground, Ceremonial cave, Tyuonyi
overlook, and the Frey, Frijole Falls, and main loop trails. The Tsankawi
unit is also open. The reopening dates of backcountry trails will be
determined upon completion of a post-fire resource assessment. [Jim Carson,
IO, BAND]
96-184 - Glen Canyon (Arizona/Utah) - Probable Drownings
On the afternoon of May 2nd, a pontoon rental boat with a party of four
adults and one child was traveling upstream on the lake near Hite, Utah, when
the child, a seven-year-old girl, fell overboard. Her father and another man
dove into the water in an attempt to rescue her. The second man was able to
return to the boat, but the father and daughter did not reappear. Rangers
were notified and a search was begun utilizing a helicopter and a fixed-wing
aircraft. Park divers were on scene at the time of the report (Friday) and
were searching for the pair. [LES, GLCA]
96-185 - Amistad (Texas) - SCUBA Accident; Probable Drowning
S.B., a SCUBA diver with ten years' experience, was diving in the
lake with novice D.W., 44, on Saturday, May 4th, when the two became
separated. S.B. searched for D.W. after surfacing, but was unable
to find him. He called the sheriff's office via mobile phone, and the
sheriff's office notified the park. The park's dive team made two efforts to
find D.W. that day, but without success; additional dives were scheduled
to occur yesterday. Diving conditions in the area are treacherous, with
heavy brush, large boulders, crevices, monofilament line and depths in excess
of 100 feet. S.B. told rangers that he and D.W. had been diving in
the area on Friday, and that D.W. had trouble keeping up with him.
S.B. therefore decided to follow D.W. in Saturday's dive in order to
assure that they stayed together, but got hung up in filament line and lost
sight of D.W. in heavy brush. The park dive team is comprised of Dennis
Anderson, Mark Peapenburg, Greg Garetz and Warren Beitle, who served as
incident commander. [Rod Danner, CR, AMIS]
FIRE ACTIVITY
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II
LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
% Est
State Unit Fire IMT 5/3 5/6 Con Con
NM Carson NF * Hondo T1 - 3,000 0 NEC
AZ Coronado NF Clark Peak T1 3,500 6,317 75 5/8
Coconino NF * Side -- - 320 100 CND
CO Montrose Dis. * Animas Mt. -- - 204 90 5/6
TX State * Sportsman's -- - 1,350 60 5/3
Heading Notes
Unit -- Agency = BIA area; NF = national forest; RU = CA state resource
or ranger unit; RD = state ranger district; District = BLM
district; NWR = USFWS wildlife refuge
Fire -- * = newly reported fire (on this report); Cx = complex; LSS =
limited suppression strategy; CSS = containment suppression
strategy
IMT -- T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST = State Team
% Con -- Percent of fire contained
Est Con -- Estimated containment date; NEC = no estimated date of
containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report
FIRE NARRATIVES
Carson NF - The Hondo Fire has destroyed 23 homes. Many people have been
evacuated from the communities of Lava, Red River, Questa and San Cristobal.
The fire was started by burning trash. Flame lengths of 300 to 400 feet were
reported yesterday.
FIRES AND ACRES BURNED
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Number 0 0 0 0 3 13 17
Acres Burned 0 1 0 0 7 3,031 3,039
COMMITTED RESOURCES
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Federal 93 77 23 10 379
Non-federal 2 19 2 0 68
CURRENT SITUATION
A Type I team has been assigned to the Hondo Fire in the Carson NF. Resource
mobilization through NICC increased yesterday, mostly due to requests from
that fire. Initial attack continues throughout the Southwest, with many
units reporting very high and extreme fire dangers.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
The potential for initial attack and escaped fires will continue in the
Southwest and southern California due to persisting hot and dry weather.
[NICC Incident Management Situation Report, 5/6]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No submissions.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
Search and Rescue - The annual Servicewide search and rescue summary for CY
1995 has been completed. Following are some of the key stats, with
comparisons to the two previous years:
1993 1994 1995
Total SARs 4,721 4,615 3,725
Ill/Injured Persons 1,868 1,940 1,188
Fatalities 160 175 156
Not Injured, Ill or Fatal 4,192 3,746 3,465
Saves 635 778 1,270
Programmed NPS Personnel Costs $438,822 $398,498 $395,760
Unprogrammed NPS Personnel Costs $1,635,455 $970,919 $736,965
Aircraft Costs $1,936,728 $1,384,550 $1,674,220
The annual EMS statistics will appear tomorrow. [Jim Lee, RAD/WASO]
Recreation Use Fees - As of the end of April, the Service had collected just
over $21.2 million in recreation use fees (recreation admission and
recreation users fees). This figure almost equals the $21.9 million
collected through that date in FY 95. This is very positive news, as the
Service had seen a shortfall of about $2 million this year due to the
government shutdown. The Servicewide cost-of-collection funding - the so-
called "15%" money - is allocated on current year collections, so it's
important that fee revenues keep pace or increase over the previous year's
collections. The high price of gasoline, bad weather and other factors may
still have an impact on the amount of fees collected. Collection levels will
be monitored closely in order to make any necessary adjustments to cost-of-
collection funding as the heavy visitor use season approaches. Any parks
that notice significant reductions in collection levels should contact their
respective field area office fee program managers. [Tim Stone, RAD/WASO]
MEMORANDA
No submissions.
EXCHANGE
No submissions.
MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS CALENDAR
Two calendars alternate in the Morning Report on Mondays - this one, which
contains meetings, conferences and events, and a second, which contains
workshops and training courses. If you know of a conference, meeting,
workshop or training session with Servicewide interest and implications,
please send the information along. Entries are listed no earlier than FOUR
months before the event, EXCEPT in instances in which registration dates
close much earlier. Asterisks indicate new entries; brackets at end of entry
indicate source of information. Brevity is appreciated.
5/11-18 -- 2National River Cleanup Week. The NPS is a federal partner in
this effort. Since 1992, over 127,000 volunteers have
participated and cleaned over 36,000 miles of waterways.
Contact: America Outdoors, 423-524-4814 (phone) or 423-525-4765
(fax). [Bob Yearout, Concession, WASO]
5/15-18 -- 2Second National Conference, Women in Historic Preservation,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Contact: ASU History
Department, Box 872501, Tempe, AZ 85287-2501. [Diane Vogt
O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
5/17-19 -- 2"Friends of Trashed Rivers," Coalition to Restore Urban Waters
Conference, Chicago, IL. Contact: Laurene Von Klan, 312-939-
0490. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
5/18-23 -- 2"Social Behavior, Natural Resources and the Environment," Sixth
International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources
Management, University Park, PA. Contact: 814-865-8301. [Sheila
Lee, T&GD/WASO]
5/19-23 -- 2"Wilderness and Natural Areas in Eastern North America: Research
Management and Planning," Gatlinburg, TN. Contact: College of
Forestry, Stephen Austin State University, PO Box 6109,
Nacogodoches, TX 75962-6109. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
5/19-23* -- 2Annual Meeting, Association for Living History Farms and
Agricultural Museums, Houston, TX. Contact: ALFAM, Local
Arrangements Committee, George Ranch Historical Park, PO 1248,
Richmond, TX 77406-1248. [Bill Gwaltney, FOLA]
5/30-6/2 -- 2Annual Meeting, Society for Industrial Archeology, Sacramento,
CA. Sponsored by California State Railroad Museum. Contact:
916-445-7387 (phone), 916-327-5655 (fax), csrmf@ns.net, or
Duncan_Hay@nps.gov. [Duncan Hay, NMSC]
6/1 -- National Trails Day. Contact: American Hiking Society, 301-653-
6704. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
6/5-7 -- 2"Partnership Opportunities for Federally-Associated Collections,"
conference, Berkeley, CA. Will address major issues pertaining
to long-term management of federally-associated collections.
Contact: Fritz Stern, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 510-
642-6271 (fax) or fstern@uclink3.berkeley.edu. [Diane Vogt
O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
6/8-12 -- 2National Convention, Audubon Society, Washington, DC. Contact:
Gail Turner, 301-499-0219. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
6/9-14 -- 2Seventeeth Annual Meeting, Society of Wetland Scientists, Kansas
City, MO. Contact: David Wiley, 800-627-0629. [Leslie Krueger,
AQ/WASO]
6/10-14 -- 2"Coast to Coast: 20 Years of Progress," 20th Annual Conference,
Association of State Floodplain Managers, San Diego, CA.
Contact: Charlie Stockman, 202-343-3672. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
6/10-16 -- 2Annual Meeting, American Institute for Conservation of Historic
and Artistic Works (AIC), Norfolk, VA. Contact: AIC, 202-452-
9545 (phone) or vnyaic@aol.com. [Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
6/12-15 -- 2"New World: Historic Natural History Collections," Annual
Meeting, Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections, Philadelphia, PA. Contact: Elana Benamy, Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 215-299-1137 or 1170 (phone) or
benamy@acnatsci.org. [Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
6/20-24 -- 2"Beyond the Banks," American River Management Symposium,
Columbus, OH. Contact: Caroline Tan, 406-549-0514. [Sheila Lee,
T&GD/WASO]
6/20-24 -- 2Quarterly Meeting, Interagency Wild and Scenic River Coordinating
Council, Columbus, OH. Contact: Chris Brown, 202-343-3758.
[Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
7/9-12 -- 2"Wetlands '96: Forming Fair and Effective Partnerships,"
Association of State Wetland Managers National Symposium,
Washington, DC. There will also be a session on wetland, flood
plain, and river on-line services and GIS applications. Contact:
518-872-1804. [Leslie Kreuger, AQ/WASO]
7/17-19 & 22-23 Annual Conference, Society of Ecological Restoration,
Brunswick, NJ. Contact: 608-262-9547. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
8/4-7 -- 28th Annual Meeting, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation,
Sioux City, IA. Contact: Robert Gatten, 910-334-5391, or Joy
Vogt, 605-945-3452. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
8/14-18 -- 2Oregon-California Trails Association Annual Convention, Elko, NV.
Contact: Helen Sundall, 402-397-9794. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
8/25-29 -- 2Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Dearborn, MI.
Contact: Frank Panek, 703-358-1856. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
OBSERVATIONS
"The recreational parks must be conserved in their natural state intrenched
[sic] against the inroads of modern civilization so that coming generations
as well as the people of our time may be assured of their use for the
purposes of recreation, education and scientific research."
Hubert Work, from "Quotable Quotes:
Relating to Conservation in General
and the National Parks in
Particular," Department of
Interior, 1950s
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Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
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