- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Friday, October 4, 1996
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Friday, October 4, 1996
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
96-577 - Great Smokies (Tennessee) - Car Clouting Arrests
Two men from Sevier County, Tennessee, were arrested while breaking into a
parked car along the Roaring Fork motor nature trail just before midnight on
September 16th. Rangers were monitoring several locations after a rash of
car clouts over the previous three weeks. The men, both in their twenties,
have extensive criminal histories. A warrant search of a residence resulted
in the recovery of numerous items that have since been linked to more than 30
break-ins. More such linkages are likely. [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM]
96-578 - Great Smokies (Tennessee) - Search and Rescue
C.H., 63, became lost while hiking outside the park near English
Mountain Resort on September 30th. Ranger/medics Steve Kloster and Ron
Parrish joined in the search, managed by Sevier County rescue. C.H. was
located around 5 a.m. the next morning; he was suffering from an ankle broken
in three places. [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM]
96-579 - Great Smokies (Tennessee) - Rescue
On October 1st, B.P., 56, broke her ankle while descending the
Alum Cave Bluff trail from Mount Le Conte. Rangers were unable to complete a
helicopter evacuation because of weather conditions. Since extreme pain
prevented B.P. from riding a horse, a litter team carried her more than
seven miles downhill through the night to a waiting ambulance, arriving just
after daylight. [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM]
FIRE ACTIVITY
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II
LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY
Wed Thu % Est
State Unit Fire/Incident IMT 10/2 10/3 Con Con
WA Wenatchee NF Myrtle T2 80 150 50 10/4
OR Burns District Bell-A-Bonanza -- 888 888 100 CND
NV Winnemucca District Clear Creek T2 400 400 100 CND
UT Dixie NF Campground -- 200 151 60 10/4
MT State Rogers Mountain T2 520 600 80 10/4
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; LPS = limited
protection status
NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FIVE DAY TREND)
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Sunday, 9/29 0 1 3 0 19 9 32
Monday, 9/30 0 39 1 2 63 30 135
Tuesday, 10/1 0 0 7 1 40 10 58
Wednesday, 10/2 1 0 21 0 26 13 61
Thursday, 10/3 2 0 4 0 34 9 49
TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FIVE DAY TREND)
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Sunday, 9/29 35 82 19 3 199
Monday, 9/30 41 67 18 4 195
Tuesday, 10/1 48 74 19 2 104
Wednesday, 10/2 41 74 21 1 108
Thursday, 10/3 31 45 17 1 142
CURRENT SITUATION
Fire activity decreased yesterday in the northern Rockies and Great Basin,
and there was little initial attack there or elsewhere.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
No unusual weather conditions are forecast.
[NICC Incident Management Situation Report]
OPERATIONAL NOTES
Summary of Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (H.R.
4236) - The following report on this major parks bill was prepared by
Assistant Director, Legislative and Congressional Affairs Kitty Roberts:
Prior to adjourning yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 4236 under unanimous
consent. The outcome of this vote was the center of much discussion between
the Administration and the Congress over the past week and the center of
attention of many interest groups. The House passed the bill on September
28th by a vote of 404 to 4. It is a slimmed-down version of its predecessor,
H.R. 1296. The bill includes many items that the NPS has been trying to get
passed for several congresses, including:
o establishment of the Presidio Trust;
o housing for NPS employees;
o expansion of authority relating to museums;
the Anaktuvuk Pass land exchange in Gates of the Arctic;
o authority to enter into agreements with universities and others for
research purposes;
o increasing the ceiling for VIP funding;
o reauthorizing fees on Route 209 at Delaware Water Gap; and
o extension of commissions at Blackstone River Valley and Kaloko-
Honokohau.
Protection and interpretation of new park areas are authorized through the
establishment of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and the
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area in Massachusetts; Tallgrass
Prairie National Preserve and Nicodemus National Historic Site in Kansas; and
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site in Oklahoma. The affiliated area
of Unalaska is also established. And heritage areas recognizing our coal
heritage, Tennessee Civil War campaigns, the Augusta Canal, the steel
industry, Essex, South Carolina, America's agriculture, Ohio and Erie Canal,
Shenandoah Valley battlefields and the Hudson River Valley are established.
Numerous boundary modifications are authorized in this bill. They include
boundary modifications at Yucca House, Zion, Pictured Rocks, Independence,
Craters of the Moon, Hagerman Fossil Beds, Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, Colonial,
Cumberland Gap, Big Thicket, and Women's Rights.
Several other administrative items are also covered by this bill, ranging
from generic minor boundary adjustment authority, expansion of the challenge
cost share program, Senate confirmation of the director of the NPS, recovery
for damages to park resources, and renumbering of the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act.
New trails and rivers have been added to those systems. They are the Old
Spanish Trail, the Great Western Scenic Trail, Selma to Montgomery National
Historical Trail and the Lamprey Wild and Scenic River.
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is reauthorized for five years,
the American battlefield protection program is authorized, the Black Patriots
Memorial authorization is extended, the construction ceiling for Chickamauga-
Chattanooga is increased, the program to preserve structures on historically
black college and university campuses is authorized, and a land exchange to
allow for the construction of the Japanese American Patriotism Memorial is
part of the bill.
Some items that are included in the bill were not Administration proposals or
supported by the Administration. However, since the making of laws is one of
compromise, several of these items are included in the bill. Direction on
how fees are collected and used at Glacier Bay, directing the continuation of
allowing feral horses in the Ozark, giving the state authority over fisheries
at New River, authorizing a visitor center in Corinth, Mississippi, and
directing the Service to have two deputy directors were all provisions that
we did not seek or support.
There are other provisions that are not discussed in this overview. For a
more detailed listing, please contact your field area legislative
representative or call the Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs at
202-208-5656 or 5883.
MEMORANDA
No memoranda.
EXCHANGE
No submissions.
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office and/or field area cc:Mail hub coordinators. Please address requests
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Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.
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