NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Tuesday, January 6, 1998

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

                    *** SPECIAL NOTICE ***

All flags are to lowered to half staff today and tomorrow, January 6-7, 1998,
in commemoration of the death of Representative Sonny Bono.  Flags will
return to full staff on January 8.

INCIDENTS

97-773 - Hawaii Volcanoes (HI) - Assist: Drug Eradication and Arrests

Over the last four months of 1997, park personnel were involved in several
cooperative drug interdiction and eradication operations:

On September 25th, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
asked for assistance in detecting and identifying the people who were
cultivating marijuana on nearby state lands.  The park's surveillance
video equipment was employed to monitor the site over a three-week
period, during which two suspects were identified.  On November 13th, a
multi-agency arrest team comprised of rangers, state officers and DEA
agents arrested the two men after a short pursuit across a lava flow. 
The men were wearing ski masks and camouflage clothing in an effort to
conceal their identifies.  The pair had just harvested 650 sensimilla
marijuana plants.  Search warrants served at their residences produced
$83,000 in cash, 500 marijuana plants being grown indoors, drug
paraphernalia, and evidence that hundreds of additional plants had been
harvested.

The state again requested assistance on December 1st to identify the
suspects at another cultivation site a half mile from the park's
boundary.  Surveillance was maintained for several weeks, but proved
fruitless.  Rangers and state officers removed 650 sensimilla plants
valued at about $1.26 million.

A joint marijuana eradication operation in December involving park
staff and a county narcotics unit netted an additional 79,833 plants
with an estimated value of $159 million.

A cultivation site was found within the park a mile off a popular
hiking trail in November.  The site was monitored, but no suspects were
identified.  Fifty plants with a value of about $50,000 were uprooted
and destroyed.

Marijuana cultivation in the state is increasing from last year's record
levels; the number of plantations close to or in the park is increasing as
well.  [Greg Jablonski, LES, HAVO, 12/31]

97-774 - Presidents Park (DC) - Demonstration; Arrests

A group identified as the Atlantic Life Community held an unlawful
demonstration on the White House sidewalk on Tuesday, December 30th.  Members
poured a blood-like liquid onto the walkway.  USPP officers arrested 20
members of the group for demonstrating without a permit; two of them were
also charged with destruction of government property.  The city's hazmat unit
responded and cleaned up the liquid from the sidewalk.  [Bill Lynch, RLES,
NCRO, 1/5]

98-02 - National Capital Parks Central (DC) - Bomb Threat

On the afternoon of Friday, January 2nd, an unidentified caller telephoned
the Washington Monument and told staff there that he was going to blow up the
structure.   The monument was evacuated, then searched by USPP officers and
members of an EOD (emergency ordnance disposal) team.  No bomb was found. 
The monument was reopened to the public about 90 minutes after the call was
received.  [Bill Lynch, RLES, NCRO, 1/5]

98-03 - National Capital Parks East (DC) - Homicide

The body of a man in his mid-twenties was found by a visitor near the
maintenance facility in Kenilworth Gardens on January 2nd.  The victim had
been shot several times in the head.  He has not yet been identified.  The
investigation continues.  [Bill Lynch, RLES, NCRO, 1/5]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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OPERATIONAL NOTES

Comments on Draft DO-18 - The comment period on the draft version of
Directors Order 18 (DO-18) has been extended to January 16th.  Comments
should be cc:Mailed to "Fire Director at NP-FIRE."  Copies of the draft can
also be obtained at that address.  [Doug Erskine, NPS Branch of Fire
Management, Boise]

PHS Update - The Public Health Service (WASO) will be providing the Morning
Report with periodic updates on important health issues which should be of
concern to some or all NPS employees.  Today's is on hepatitis C, an
infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus.  Clinical features
include jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and intermittent
nausea and vomiting.  About 85% of infected people develop chronic infections
that last for years - often for the rest of the person's life.  The Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 3.9 million Americans
have chronic hepatitis C infections.  According to CDC, you may be at risk
for hepatitis C and should contact your medical care provider for a blood
test if you:

     have ever injected illicit drugs, even once;
     received a blood transfusion or solid organ transplant before 1992;
     received clotting factor concentrates before 1987; or
     have ever been on long-term kidney dialysis.

If you have any questions, please contact your regional public health
consultant or park sanitarian, or call WASO PHS for more information at
202-565-1120.  [Jerry Johnson, PHS/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 submission is from a 1934 radio
address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was sent along by Jake
Hoogland, WASO: 

"The present National Park Service stands as an example of efficient and
far-seeing governmental administration and to its former duties I added last
year by transferring from other departments many other parks, battlefield
sites, memorials and national monuments.  This concentration of
responsibility has thus made it possible to embark on a permanent park policy
as a great recreational and educational project - one which no other country
in the world has ever undertaken in such a broad way for protection of its
natural and historic treasures and for the enjoyment of them by vast numbers
of people....We should remember that the development of our national park
system over a period of many years has not been a simple bed of roses.  As is
the case in the long fight for the preservation of national forests and water
power and mineral deposits and other national possessions, it has been a long
and fierce fight against many private interests which were entrenched in
political and economic power.  So, too, it has been a constant struggle to
continue to protect the public interest, once it was saved from private
exploitation at the hands of the selfish few.  It took a bitter struggle to
teach the country at large that our national resources are not inexhaustible
and that, when public domain is stolen, a twofold injury is done, for it is a
theft of the treasure of the present and at the same time bars the road of
opportunity to the future.  We have won the greater part of the fight to
obtain and to retain these great public park properties for the benefit of
the public...The Secretary of the Interior in 1933 announced that this year
of 1934 was to be emphasized as 'National Parks Year.'  I am glad to say that
there has been a magnificent response and that the number visiting our
national parks has shown a splendid increase.  But I decided today that every
year ought to be 'National Parks Year.'  That is why, with all the
earnestness at my command, I express to you the hope that each and every one
of you who can possibly find the means and opportunity for so doing will
visit our national parks and use them as they are intended to be used.  They
are not for the rich alone.  Camping is free, and sanitation is excellent. 
You will find them in every part of the Union.  You will find glorious
scenery of every character; you will find every climate; you will perform the
double function of enjoying much and learning much."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
radio address from Two Medicine
Chalet, Glacier National Park,
August 5, 1934

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