NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, October 7, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

96-370 - Glacier Bay (Alaska) - Follow-up on Assault

P.D., who was arrested on July 27, 1996, for threatening federal
employees with a gun, was subsequently indicted on the assault charges in
state court and on two felony charges of destruction of government property
and seven misdemeanors in federal court.  P.D. arranged a plea agreement
with the state, but failed to come to a similar agreement with the U.S.
attorney's office.  The state then reinstated the assault charge against
P.D. for breach of a state plea agreement - the first time in Alaska
history that a felony charge has been reinstated because of a failed plea
agreement condition within a federal case.  P.D. was found guilty on all
but one federal felony charge and remained in custody pending sentencing. 
The latter took place in state court in mid-August, and P.D. was sentenced
to three years in prison, with all but six months suspended.  Two weeks
later, he was sentenced in federal court for time already served on the
charges, but also ordered to pay $37,500 in restitution for damage caused to
government property (cutting down 55 spruce trees).  When arrested, P.D.
was in the process of constructing an underground log cabin made from the
trees, which he'd cut from the surrounding area.  During the search
associated with the arrest, rangers found and seized about 3,000 pounds of
camping/survival gear, two rifles, 24,000 rounds of ammunition, 24 snares,
and a small amount of marijuana.  P.D.'s personal property is still being
held under seizure by the U.S. attorney pending appeal; the state of Alaska
has issued a lien against the property for past due child support.  The U.S.
attorney is proceeding with "Deadbeat Dad" violations to ensure that P.D.'s
survival equipment is not returned to him while he still owes child support. 
It is significant that the judge fully accepted the NPS appraisal of resource
damage for cutting the spruce trees.  The defense had argued that the
appraisal methodology was invalid for use on wilderness trees.  [Mike Sharp,
Pilot/Criminal Investigator, GLBA, 9/5]

97-612 - Rocky Mountain NP (CO) - Poaching Conviction

T.E. of Oak Lawn, California, was found guilty of poaching in the
park in federal district court in September.  The incident took place last
December, when T.E., accompanied by his two sons, killed a five-point bull
elk on the McGraw ranch, well inside the park's boundaries.  T.E. was
charged with illegally taking wildlife from a national park (16 USC
3372(a)(1) and 3373(d)(2)).  He was also charged under the Lacey Act for
transporting parts of an illegally slain animal across state lines.  T.E.
pled guilty, was fined $2,500, and lost his hunting privileges in Colorado
for five years.  Since Colorado is a member of the Wildlife Violator Compact,
T.E. is also subject to a five-year revocation of his hunting privileges in
seven other western states.  Each of his sons was fined $750 for acting as
accessories to the poaching.  Rangers worked cooperatively with the US Fish
and Wildlife Service and Colorado Division of Wildlife to produce sufficient
evidence to obtain the conviction.  [Sharon Brubaker, ROMO, 9/4]

97-613 - National Capital Parks Central (DC) - Demonstration with Arrests

On September 18th, Park Police officers arrested nine people and charged them
with violating the terms of their demonstration permit by selling T-shirts on
the National Mall.  The arrests stemmed from a recent U.S. Court of Appeals
ruling which upheld the constitutionality of the Service's regulation which
bans the sale of T-shirts during the conduct of special events or
demonstrations.  The nine were issued CFR violation notices and released. 
[Bill Lynch, RLES, NCRO, 9/19]

97-614 - Obed W&SR (TN) - Marijuana Eradication

A joint interagency marijuana eradication opeation has so far this year
resulted in the location and destruction of 29,404 marijuana plants in the
park and Catoosa Wildlife Management Area.  The majority of the plants were
taken in a popular growing area along a creek running into the Obed River
about two miles from the park's boundary.  The largest single patch was a
seed bed found in June which contained about 4,000 plants.  An NPS spotter
was also instrumental in guiding local deputies to a residence just north of
the park, which resulted in the seizure of about 50 plants and 12 ounces of
marijuana.  [Rob Turan, OBRI, 9/19]

97-615 - Glen Canyon NRA (AZ/UT) - EMS Rescue

On the afternoon of September 22nd, park dispatch received a marine band
report of a boat accident with a possible drowning in Ice Cream Canyon.  The
patient was reported to be en route to a park boat ramp aboard a private
vessel.  Wahweap rangers responded by water and land.  Upon arrival, they
found that the victim, a 45-year-old woman, was receiving CPR from her
husband.  It was determined that she was apneic with a blocked airway and was
also suffering from an asthma attack secondary to the boat accident, but that
she had a pulse.  ALS measures were implemented by park medic David
VanInwagen, assisted by EMTs Will LeBon and Patty Briggs.  Two treatments of
albuterol were given to the patient while en route to the hospital in Page. 
The woman was transferred to Flagstaff Medical Center, where she remains in
intensive care.  [David Sandbakken, LES, GLCA, 9/29]

97-616 - Roosevelt-Vanderbilt NHS (NY) - Special Event

Mrs. Liudmyla Kuchma, first lady of the Ukraine, visited the home of Franklin
Roosevelt and the Vanderbilt mansion on September 22nd.  She was accompanied
by the wife of the country's minister of foreign affairs and the wife of the
Ukrainian ambassador to the U.N.  Park rangers and Secret Service agents
provided security and a motorcade escort.  [Chris Jefferson, CR, ROVA, 9/22]

97-617 - San Antonio Missions NHP (TX) - Special Event

A Turner Network Television crew filmed portions of the upcoming TV mini-
series "Two for Texas" at Missions Espada and San Jose from September 24th to
the 30th.  The movie features Kris Kristofferson and Peter Coyote as members
of Sam Houston's army in 1836.  [Dan Steed, CR, SAAN, 9/30]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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OPERATIONAL NOTES

FLETC Basic Class - On August 28th, the most recent NPS basic class (LMTP-
705) graduated from FLETC.  Nineteen of the 23 members of the class were
recognized by FLETC program managers for awards or achievements at the
graduation:

o Thirteen members of the class scored 475 or better on the physical
efficiency battery (PEB) tests.  Ranger David Horne scored a perfect
500 points.
o Nine members of the class shot expert on the PPC course by scoring 285
or better out of a possible 300 points.
o Five members of the class scored 95% or better on all academic tests,
with a class average of 91.4%
o Neal Labrie was an honor graduate with a 96.16% overall average on all
written tests, the PEB, firearms and all graded practical exercises. 
Kurt Dutton was a FLETC honor graduate with an overall score of 98.15%
on all tests and will go on to compete for the FLETC honor graduate of
the year.

FLETC driver training instructor Bobby Freeman reported that this was
the best class that he'd seen in 25 years as an instructor at FLETC and
that they'd scored the highest overall drivers training scores anyone
could remember.

NPS superintendent Paul Henry commends all of those who have hired these
talented rangers and encourages them to keep up the good work in making such
exceptional selections.  [Paul Henry, NPS/FLETC]

CFR Violation Notices - Revised CFR violation notices arrived from the
printer in September and are now available at the Brentwood storehouse. 
Parks should submit DI-1s through their respective regional law enforcement
specialists as soon as possible.  The initial implementation date for the
revised violation notices was October 1st; however, due to delays with
printing, the Central Violations Bureau will allow the use of the existing
form through October 15th.  For ordering purposes, one case contains 40 pads
of 25 violation notices.  The old forms should be destroyed according to
established procedures: recorded on a report of survey by violation number
(i.e., violation number 3001-9660), destruction witnessed, report of survey
signed by an accountable officer.  [Bill Lynch, RLES, NCRO]

Safety Web Site - An Internet home page has been established for the NPS
Division of Risk Management.  It can be viewed with a web browser at the
following address: http://www.nps.gov/riskmgmt.  The page will provide
occupational safety and health information to all employees.  It presently
includes the following choices:

o OSHA safety and health statistics;
o OSHA's voluntary protection program;
o risk management council information;
o safety alerts and information;
o points of contact for the Office of Risk Management;
o a link to the DOI safety net home page (http://safety.doi.gov); and
o a link to the NPS home page.

The Division of Risk Management is in the process of developing this
information resource, and plans to include, the following as the home page
evolves:

o policies and program guidelines, as published, including the upcoming
  "Workers' Compensation Case Management Program Guidelines;"
o reports on OSHA inspections of NPS work sites;
o NPS "Fatal Facts;"
o occupational health issues;
o environmental health issues;
o NPS safety/occupational health statistics; and
o good ideas from field areas.

Please refer to the page for the latest information on safety and
occupational health issues.  [DRM/WASO]

MEMORANDA

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EXCHANGE

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OBSERVATIONS

This section, which appears intermittently in the Morning Report, contains
observations regarding the National Park Service, the System and the several
professions of park employees.  

Today's observation has been excerpted from a collection of quotations
entitled "John Muir: In His Own Words," compiled and edited by Peter Browning
(Great West Books, 1988).  


"One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made.  That this is
still the morning of creation.  That mountains, long conceived, are now being
born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for rivers, basins
hollowed for lakes.  That moraine soil is being ground and outspread for
coming plants...while the finest part of the grist, seen hastening far out to
sea, is being stored away in darkness, and builded, particle on particle,
cementing and crystallizing, to make the mountains and valleys and plains of
other landscapes, which, like fluent pulsing water, rise and fall, and pass
on through the ages in endless rhythm and beauty."

                                    John Muir, September, 1879, "Alaska
                                    Glaciers," from the San Francisco
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