NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, January 27, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

96-707 - Yosemite NP (California) - Follow-up on Winter Storm Impacts

Rain and snow throughout the weekend - though less severe than anticipated -
hampered efforts to complete work on the sewer system and roads and prompted
a limited evacuation of El Portal residents on Sunday.  In mid-afternoon,
complications from a mud slide threatened to knock out phone, cable
television and electrical service.  The weather also raised concerns about
another possible evacuation from Yosemite Valley.  The New Year's Day flood
continues to have serious impacts on the everyday lives of NPS and concession
employees, their families, and residents of surrounding communities:  

o Employees who live in El Portal but work in Yosemite Valley have been  
separated from their families for almost a month now, living in
temporary housing in the Valley and Wawona.  

o Employees who wish to visit their families in El Portal must plan their
trips around scarce days off and scheduled California Highway Patrol
convoys over damaged roads.  This has become increasingly difficult due
to recent rock slides and road closures.  

o The sewer system in Yosemite Valley is still inoperable.  The
inconvenience of infrequent showers and continued use of portable
toilets remain a reality of daily life in Yosemite Valley.  

o Employees with school age children find it difficult to get their
children to school each day.  Many high school students spend the week
separated from their families in temporary housing in Mariposa in order
to attend school.  

o About 1,000 concession employees lost their jobs; many also lost their
personal possessions.  The incident management team and county have
hired as many of them as emergency workers as possible, but a number
have moved on to other jobs and will not be returning to Yosemite.  

o Though not yet quantified, the economic impact on the surrounding
communities is becoming more evident every day.  

Although the Wawona area opened to visitors on Wednesday, January 22nd,
inclement weather and limited services have kept visitation down to a hardy
handful.  California congressman John T. Doolittle is planning to visit the
park today.  A contingent of NPS and DOI staff are scheduled to tour the park
on Wednesday.  [Scott Gediman, PIO, YOSE, 1/27]

97-28 - Golden Spike NHS (Utah) - Burglary

Some time during the night of January 21st, a burglar kicked in the large
window in the entry way auditorium, smashed the plexiglass covering a
donation box, and stole about $100.  Nothing else was taken, but there were
signs of attempted entry at other windows around the visitor center and
headquarters offices.  A similar burglary occurred at a town about ten miles
away around the same time.  An investigation is underway.  [Bruce Powell,
GOSP]

                   [Additional reports pending...]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Report pending.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Report pending.

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.

2/1* -- Deadline for submission of proposals for papers for Yellowstone's
Fourth Biennial Scientific Conference, to be held October 12-14
(new dates) at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.  Registration and
agenda information will be sent out in April.  Contact: Laura
Joss, 307-344-2154.  [Diane Vogt O'Connor, DCA/WASO]

2/5-8 -- "Monitoring Our Wildlife Heritage: What Do We Have, How Do We
Know?", Annual Meeting, Western Section, Wildlife Society, San
Diego, CA.  Contact: Dr. Reginald Barrett, 145 Mulford Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114; 510-642-7261 (phone); rbarrett@
nature.berkeley.edu (Internet).  [Kathy Jope, CCSSO]

2/12-13* -- Ninth Annual Conservation Law Enforcement Association (CLEA)
Conference, Prescott, AZ.  The annual conference draws some 225
law enforcement officers from local, state and federal
conservation agencies throughout the Southwest.  The conference
has been recognized by federal agencies and AzPOST for 16 hours
of law enforcement training.  Contact: Dwayne Collier, SOAR, by
name on cc:Mail or at 602-640-5256.  [Dwayne Collier, SOAR]

2/16-21 -- 50th Anniversary National Meeting, Society for Range Management,
Rapid City, SD.  Topics include disturbed area reclamation,
rangeland assessment, inventory and monitoring, rangeland
wildlife, rangeland watersheds, coordinated resource management,
simulation modeling of rangeland ecosystems, livestock and
wildlife management issues, grazing management and livestock
production, rangeland ecology, and the history of range
management.  Cost: $165 for non-members before January 12th, $110
for members; costs after the 12th are $215 and $160,
respectively.  The two day rate is $30.  Contact: 1997 SRM Annual
Meeting, PO Box 575, Huron, SC 57350-2475; 605-352-1270 (fax). 
[Bruce Bessken, BADL]

2/17-20 -- "Integrating Spatial Information Technologies for Tomorrow," GIS
'97 Conference, Vancouver, BC.  Contact: Michael Rauscher, Forest
Service, Bent Creek Experimental Forest, 1577 Brevard Road,
Asheville, NC 28806; 704-667-5261 x 102 (phone); fswa/
s=m.rauscher/ou=s29a@mhs.attmail.com (Internet).  [Kathy Jope,
CCSSO]

3/6-8 -- "Museums and the Enlightened Tourist," American Association of
Museums, Charleston, SC.  Contact: 202-289-1818 (phone); 202-289-
6578 (fax).  [Diane Vogt O'Connor, DCA/WASO]

3/6-9 -- "Folk Art: Is It All Over?", Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
Contact: Catherine Gray, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 902-424-7542
(phone), 902-424-7359 (fax).  [Diane Vogt O'Connor, DCA/WASO]

3/10-13* -- "Improving Wetland Assessment: Applying Science Through the
Hydrogeomorphic Assessment Approach and Other Methods,"
Symposium, Association of State Wetland Managers, Annapolis, MD. 
contact: ASWM at 518-872-1804 or http://members.aol.
com/ASWMI/wetlands97.html.  [Leslie Krueger, AQD/WASO]

3/13-15 -- Second National Women in Historic Preservation Conference, Mesa,
AZ.  The pre-registration deadline is February 176th.  The
conference is made possible in part by special funding from the
Service's cultural resource training initiative and has been
approved as official training for NPS employees.  Contact: Eve
Carr or Claudine Barnes, Arizona State University, Women's
Studies Program, P.O. Box 871801, Tempe, AZ 85287-1801, or via
Internet at either of the following two addresses: ecarr@asu-edu,
cbarnes@asu.edu.  [Vivien Rose, WORI]

3/14-18 -- 62nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference,
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC.  Contact: Richard McCabe,
Wildlife Management Institute, 202-371-1808.  [Frank Panek,
WRD/WASO]

3/17-21 -- "Making Protection Work: Parks and Reserves in a Crowded,
Changing World," Ninth Conference on Research and Resource
Management in Parks and on Public Lands, Albuquerque Marriott,
Albuquerque, NM.  Sponsored by the George Wright Society. The
conference has been approved as official training for NPS
employees.  Registration fees vary; the return registration form
may be found at the GWS Web site at http://www.portup. com/~gws/
gws97.html.  Contact: GWS, 906-487-9722.  [Dave Harmon, George
Wright Society]

3/25-27 -- Meeting, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Review Committee, Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.  The agenda will include
discussion of the disposition of culturally unidentifiable
remains, compliance by federal agencies, and implementation of
the statute in the state of Oklahoma.  The meeting is open to the
public.  Contact: Frank McManamon, Archeology and Ethnography,
WASO, at NP-WASO-DCA.  [Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 241, p.
65596]

4/1  -- Deadline for submission of abstracts for 14th International
Estuarine Research Federation Conference, to be held October 12-
16 in Providence, RI.  The theme of this conference is the state
of our estuaries.  Topics will include the consequence of human
development in the coastal zone, the recovery of bays and
estuaries, the effects of sea level rise on estuaries, and
phytoremediation.  [Susan Joffre, SEFO]

4/12-16* -- Fifth National Conference on National Historic and National
Scenic Long-Distance Trails, Orlando, FL.  Contact: Florida Trail
Association, 1-800-343-1882.  [Sheila Lee, NCRC]

4/26-30 -- Annual Meeting, American Association of Museums, Atlanta, GA. 
Contact: 202-289-1818 (phone); 202-289-6578 (fax).  [Diane Vogt
O'Connor, DCA/WASO]

4/27-30 -- "Future Natural Resource Management: Science vs. Politics," 53rd
Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Sheraton Tara,
Framingham, MA.  Papers in fisheries, wildlife, law enforcement,
information and education, and conservation engineering are being
solicited.  Contact: Rob Deblinger, program chair, 508-792-7270
ext 128.  [Frank Panek, WRD/WASO]

                                *  *  *  *  *

Distribution of the Morning Report is through a mailing list managed by park,
office and/or field area cc:Mail hub coordinators.  Please address requests
for the Morning Report to your servicing hub coordinator.

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

                                  --- ### ---