NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Thursday, January 2, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

96-707 - Lassen Volcanic NP (California) - Follow-up on Storm Impacts

During the period from December 22nd to the 31st, the series of storms
battering Washington, Oregon and California dropped just under 17 inches of
rain at park headquarters, with almost half of that falling during the last
two days of the year.  Rain fell throughout the night at the Chalet (6,500
feet), which already has seven feet of snow on the ground.  A flood warning
was issued for small streams for all areas around the park on the 31st, and
employees commuting to work encountered water at several locations on the
highway.  By mid-morning, maintenance employees were able to reach the
headquarters water intake and found that about 300 yards of the levee system
had been washed away.  The dam and spillway were under about five feet of
water.  Water conservation measures were begun immediately, and employees
started backflushing the filtering plant on an hourly basis.  At the time of
the report late on the 31st, rain was still coming down and forecasters were
predicting that much more would fall over the holiday.  [Bryan Swift, CR,
LAVO]

96-709 - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Missouri) - Assault on Ranger

On the morning of December 19th, maintenance employees noticed a car clout in
progress across the street from the park.  Park dispatchers were notified as
the subject - later identified as M.A., 41 - fled from the area in a
vehicle which headed north on Memorial Drive, which the city has an easement
on but is within the park's boundaries.  Maintenance employees followed at a
safe distance.  Ranger Bill McKinney drove a marked vehicle south from the
Arch parking garage and blocked a portion of the roadway with all emergency
lights on in an attempt to intercept M.A..  M.A. took no evasive action
and made no attempt to stop his vehicle and instead drove straight at the
highly visible patrol car.  McKinney realized that M.A. was attempting to
hit him; he started to move his vehicle forward, but it was struck near the
left rear wheel by M.A.'s car before McKinney could get it out of the way. 
M.A.'s car was disabled in the accident.  McKinney arrested him for
assaulting a federal officer, interfering with an officer, and possession of
stolen property.  M.A. was driving a stolen vehicle and was wanted for
escape by the Missouri State Department of Corrections.  McKinney was unhurt
in the accident.  Damage to the government patrol car is estimated at over
$1,000.  [Deryl Stone, CR, JEFF]

96-710 - Whiskeytown NRA (California) - Rescue

Early on the evening of December 30th, rangers were called to the Overlook
visitor center to take a report of a missing person.  When they arrived, they
found C.T. in a near comatose condition.  Further investigation
revealed that a visitor heading up to a prominent lookout came upon C.T.
and his friend, B.T., walking down the road, both completely soaked
and hypothermic.  Rangers immediately administered first aid to C.T. and
retrieved and treated B.T.  C.T. is the same person who was the
subject of an exhaustive search on November 17th (96-681).  At that time,
C.T. wrecked his four-wheel-drive vehicle 15 miles from a highway and had
to walk out the entire distance with his nine-year-old son in a driving rain. 
C.T.'s son was fine, but C.T. was taken to a hospital and treated for
hypothermia.  It appears that C.T. traveled the same route this time, but
managed to travel 16 miles past the point where he got lost the first time. 
His vehicle apparently broke down, and he elected to hike out the 20 or so
miles to the visitor center, again in a driving rain and without any winter
gear.  [CRO, WHIS]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

NPS Phone Directory - The newest version of the Service's park phone
directory is now available in ready-to-print WordPerfect, Microsoft Access
and MS Word versions.  To obtain a copy, send a message to Betsy Chittenden
at NP-WASO-POPS with one of the following in the subject line (not in the
body of the message):
         
         phones-access - for the Access version 
         phones-word - for the MS Word version 
         phones-wp - for the WordPerfect version
       
Data corrections are already being sent in by the field.  Please continue to
do so, as WASO has no way of knowing about these changes except by hearing
from you.   No corrections in the actual data have yet been made in this
version (including recent organizational changes in the Southeast Field
Area), but these will be made and the directories will be issued again in
about a month.  As always, WASO is are interested in hearing from you about
how these products work for you, and in receiving any suggestions you may
have for improving them.  [Betsy Chittenden, APC/WASO]

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

EXCHANGE

Traffic Counters - Delaware Water Gap is looking for surplus StreeterAmet
TraficCOMP III, Model 241 traffic counters.  If you've got one or more you'd
like to survey, please contact Michele Kuna at NP-DEWA.

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.  

"Parks and recreation must be considered as correlative with the other major
objectives in planning for our State and our Nation.  We must advance
together and insist that planning for parks and recreation is in proper
balance with planning for other purposes." 

                                  Director Conrad L. Wirth, from
                                  "Quotable Quotes: Relating to
                                  Conservation in General and the
                                  National Parks in Particular,"
                                  Department of Interior, 1951

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