NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, October 21, 1997

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

97-652 - Grand Canyon NP (AZ) - Concession Employee Pedestrian Fatality

V.K., 44, was walking eastbound along the shoulder of the south
entrance road just west of the park's main visitor center yesterday afternoon
when she was struck and killed by a passenger van owned and operated by Grand
Canyon National Park Lodges.  No further details are currently available. 
[Public Affairs, GRCA, 10/20]

97-653 - Golden Gate NRA (CA) - Special Event

On October 12th, the San Francisco Council for the Summer of Love held a 30th
anniversary celebration of the "summer of love" in the western end of Golden
Gate Park.  Although no official counts were made, local newspapers estimated
the attendance at between 30,000 and 35,000 people.  The event's organizers
originally proposed a two-day event with attendance of up to 30,000 people
per day, but park representative Greg Shine (special park uses group) and
lieutenant Kevin Hay (USPP) argued in front of the San Francisco Recreation
and Park Commission that a two-day event would compromise park operations and
the NPS mandate to protect park resources and a federally-threatened species
(the event location was 100 yards from Ocean Beach and directly adjacent to
the northern portion of a special management area for the federally-
threatened western snowy plover).  Although event organizers did not propose
to hold the event on federal land, Shine and Hay asked the city to add a
provision to their contract requiring the event manager to pay up front all
NPS costs for the projected impact on the adjacent park lands.  The city
agreed and ultimately permitted a one-day event.  The park issued a special
use permit for overflow visitation and recovered all costs through the
permit.  Park staff - officers, protection and rescue rangers, maintenance
workers, and special park uses personnel - logged over 100 hours of overtime. 
Interpretive rangers added over 20 hours of visitor contact and education in
and around the plover special management area.  [Greg Shine, GOGA, 10/20]

97-654 - Glen Canyon NRA (AZ/UT) - Filming Permit Violation

On August 8th, a film permit was issued to NEHA/MAD Films, a production
company from Salt Lake City, for several days of filming within the park. 
The company was coordinating locations and handling permitting, bonds,
insurance and other matters for a production team from Bombay, India, which
was shooting a feature for Indian audiences.  Insurance and a bond for
$25,000 were collected.  After the filming was completed, the park accepted a
company check for $3,050 for the monitoring costs of the permit and returned
the bond intact.  The check subsequently bounced and a bill of collection
will be issued in an attempt to collect the debt.  This is the first time
this situation has occurred in the park, which issues about 70 film permits
annually.  There is reason to believe that the company from India may return
to America to film, possibly working with another American production
company.  The producer's name is S.M., the director is M.A.
[Eileen Martinez, PR, GLCA, 10/20]

                   [Additional reports pending...]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Report pending.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Report pending.

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

EXCHANGE

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