NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, March 14, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

97-58 - Kaloko-Honokohau NHP (Hawaii) - Follow-up on Illegal Trespass

An interagency task force comprised of about 50 rangers and law enforcement
officers evicted the Pai family and several sympathizers from the park and
adjacent state land at dawn on the morning of Friday, February 14th.  The
family had been illegally occupying park lands since they refused to sign a
continuing special use permit in 1993 and claimed native rights to the area.
One of the occupants, K.N., also known as H.N., Jr., refused to
leave the area and was accordingly arrested.  He was in federal custody for
five days after the eviction because he refused to identify himself.  On
March 7th, K.N. was found guilty of interfering with an agency function in
magistrate's court, but found not guilty on a second charge of failing to
obey the command of a law enforcement officer.  He was sentenced to a day in
jail, with credit for time served, and ordered to pay a $10 special
assessment fee.  K.N. has protested similar evictions before and is known as
a member of the sovereignty movement in Hawaii.  [Paul Ducasse, SA, PWR,
3/12]

97-95 - San Juan NHS (Puerto Rico) - Suicide

On the afternoon of March 11th, H.G.-V. jumped to his death
from Fort El Morro.  He was seen standing on the top of the wall at the
fort's sixth level by park guide Carlos Carasquillo and an ENP&MA sales
person.  They tried to talk with him, but he would only tell them his name
and age.  When they continued their efforts to talk him down, he stood up,
threw his glasses over the edge, turned around and jumped backwards, falling
over 80 feet to a lower level of the fort.  He was killed instantly.  The FBI
and Puerto Rico police have ruled this a suicide.    [Mark Hardgrove,
Assistant Superintendent, SAJU, 3/12]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Additional Fee Demonstration Areas - Director Kennedy yesterday announced
Phase II of the Congressionally authorized three-year fee demonstration
program, which authorizes federal land management agencies to increase and
retain entrance and user fees through implementation of up to 100 projects
per agency.  Phase II will include 45 additional NPS projects.  Some fees
will go into effect immediately, but the majority of the new fees in the
program will be effective by May 23rd.  A chart listing the new areas, which
is too large to include in the Morning Report, has been disseminated to all
regions.  [Meg Leffel, RAD/WASO]

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

EXCHANGE

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