NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, November 21, 1996

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

96-657 - Biscayne NP (Florida) - Follow-up on Ship Grounding

Lightering of the cargo from the "Igloo Moon" began yesterday and was to have
been completed by evening.  The "Selma Kosan" will depart the area on the
following high tide.  Plans call for tugs to refloat and remove the "Igloo
Moon" from the park this afternoon.  The three-mile, 3,000-foot safety zone
has been reinstated during the lightering and removal process, and park boats
are assisting in enforcement of the safety zone.  Good weather is expected to
continue through today, but forecasters are keeping an eye on late-season
Hurricane Marco.  [Gary Bremen, IO, BISC]

96-658 - National Capital Parks East (D.C.) - Sexual Assault Conviction

F.K. recently pled guilty in D.C. superior court to one count each
of first degree sexual abuse and kidnapping for his July 2, 1995, attack on
an 18-year-old woman in Anacostia Park.  F.K. has four prior sexual assault
convictions, dating back as far as 1971, and is facing a sentence of life
without parole.  The assistant U.S. attorney for the district commended Park
Police detectives Joseph Green and Robert Johnson and officer Rufus Gillette
for their outstanding performance in the successful prosecution of a career
felon.  [Bill Lynch, LES, NCSSO]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

EXCHANGE

No submissions.

OBSERVATIONS

This section, which will now appear intermittently in the Morning Report,
contains observations regarding the National Park Service, the System and the
several professions of park employees.  Today's quote was passed along by
Christine Bates at Big Cypress:

"Ecology is now teaching us to search in animal populations for analogies to
our own problems.  By learning how some small part of the biota ticks, we can
guess how the whole mechanism ticks.  The ability to perceive these deeper
meanings, and to appraise them critically, is the woodcraft of the future."

                                           Author, scientist and
                                           naturalist Aldo Leopold, 1949

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