NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT

To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Monday, August 3, 1998

INCIDENTS

98-454 - Glacier NP (MT) - Rock Slides, Temporary Road Closures

A storm with high winds and heavy rain caused three large rock slides which
closed the upper Logan Pass section of the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the
evening of Tuesday, July 28th.  The largest of the slides, estimated at 40
tons of rock and debris, covered both sides of the road a mile east of the
Jackson Glacier overlook.  The second slide fell about 100 feet further west,
and the third occurred a quarter mile from the east side tunnel.  No injuries
or property damage were reported.  Between 10 and 15 cars were stranded on
the roadway for about two hours, when the road was finally cleared enough for
them to get through.  The road reopened just after noon the following day. 
[Amy Vanderbilt, PIO, GLAC, 7/30]

98-455 - Yellowstone NP (WY) - MVA with Multiple Injuries

Rangers responded to a single-vehicle rollover accident about three miles
east of the park's west entrance on the evening of July 25th.  The pickup
truck left the roadway, traveled 560 feet and rolled several times before
coming to rest upright.  Three of the five occupants were not wearing
seatbelts and were ejected.  Two needle thoracostomies were performed on one
of the seriously injured patients.  All five were taken to Deaconess Hospital
in Bozeman, Montana, for additional care.  The driver was issued citations
for careless driving and unsafe operation, passing in a no passing zone, and
failure to wear seatbelts.  Alcohol was a probable factor.  [John Piastuck,
Cheryl Matthews, YELL, 7/29]

98-456 - Lake Mead NRA (AZ/NV) - Drowning

On the evening of July 19th, dispatch received a report that a man who was
diving into the lake from the cliffs at Gypsum Wasch had failed to surface. 
Rangers, EMS volunteers and a helicopter responded.  Ranger/divers Ryan
Regnell and Paul Crawford found D.R., 18, of Las Vegas, in about 25
feet of water within two minutes and brought him to shore.  Resuscitation
efforts were begun and D.R. was airlifted to a trauma center in Las Vegas,
where he was pronounced dead.  D.R.'s death is the 17th water-related
fatality at Lake Mead this year.  [Bud Inman, LAME, 7/20]

98-457 - New River Gorge NR (WV) - Body Found

A commercial outfitter found the body of a man lodged between rocks in the
middle of the New River about two miles downstream from Meadow Creek on the
afternoon of July 20th.  Evidence was collected at the scene and the body was
removed.  The cause of death has not been determined, but there is no
indication of foul play.  Keys found on the body lead rangers to his vehicle,
which was parked in the Meadow Creek area.  The victim was identified as
R.S., 40, of Alderson, West Virginia.  R.S.'s family said that
he'd been missing for about eight days, but that they hadn't reported him
missing to the authorities because he had frequently gone off by himself for
several days at a time in the past.  An investigation is underway.  [Rick
Brown, Protection Unit Leader, NERI, 7/21]

                       [Additional reports pending...]

FIRE ACTIVITY

NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II

LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY 

                                                     Thu      Sun    %  Est
State      Unit             Fire/Incident     IMT    7/30     8/2   Con Con

WA   Colville Agency        Omak Lake Cx      T2    2,000    2,487  100 CND 
     State                  Cleveland         --   17,000   18,500  100 CND 
     Gifford Pinchot NF     White Pass Cx     T2      250      250   80 8/2

OR   Umpqua NF              Steamboat Cx      --      130      130  100 CND 
     State                * #801              --        -      200  UNK NEC

ID   Payette NF             Raft Creek        --      600      600  100 CND 
     Idaho Falls District * Tilden #2         --        -   22,370  100 CND

AZ   Grand Canyon NP      * Transept Cx       --        -      230  UNK 10/15

UT   Salt Lake District   * Burnt             --        -      500  100 CND

MI   Hiawatha NF          * Slash Pile        --        -      100   80 8/3

MT   Lewiston District    * Pines             --        -    1,250  100 CND

CA   State                * Manton            --        -    2,646  100 CND

OK   State                * Bear Mtn. Cx      T2        -    9,000   90 NEC

FL   Merritt Island NWR     SRB #1            --      300      300  100 CND 

TX   Big Thicket NP       * Mud               --        -      310   20 8/3
     State                  Humbolt           --      250      250  100 CND 
                            Sugarloaf         --    5,600    6,000   95 8/3 
                            Hackberry         --    2,000    2,050  100 CND
                            Quantique Peak    --    3,000    3,000  100 CND
                          * Cash Cx           --        -      450   NR NR
                          * O Bar O           --        -    6,500   98 8/2
                          * Escota            --        -    6,000   95 8/2
                          * Piney Creek       --        -      100  100 CND
                          * New Hope          --        -      100  100 CND
                          * Amity             --        -      200  100 CND
                          * Lye Creek         --        -      160   80 8/3
                          * Richland Creek    --        -      225  UNK NR
                          * Brushy            --        -      400  UNK NR
                          * Weatherford       --        -      100  UNK NR
                          * Paluxy            --        -      300  100 CND
                          * Pole Cat          --        -    1,500  100 CND
                          * Parksay           --        -      100  100 CND
                     
                                  Heading Notes

Unit        Agency = BIA area; NF = national forest; RU = CA state resource
            or ranger unit; RD = state ranger district; District = BLM
            district; NWR = USFWS wildlife refuge
Fire        * = newly reported fire (on this report); Cx = complex
IMT         T1 = Type I; T2 = Type II; ST = State Team
% Con       Percent of fire contained; UNK = unknown
Est Con     Estimated containment date; NEC = no estimated date of
            containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report

NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FOUR DAY TREND) 

                    NPS    BIA      BLM     FWS    States   USFS     Total

Thursday, 7/30       1     75        21       1      141    147       386
Friday, 8/1          5      7        19       1       66     87       185
Saturday, 8/2        0      6         9       1       80     45       141
Sunday, 8/3          0      7         8       1       50     54       120

TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FOUR DAY TREND) 

                  Crews     Engines    Helicopters    Airtankers   Overhead

Thursday, 7/30     137        414         103            15         1,277
Friday, 8/1        128        326          61            16         1,452
Saturday, 8/2      119        695          99            10           980
Sunday, 8/3        112        413          86            16         1,480

CURRENT SITUATION

Large fires and initial attack operations were reported in the Northwest,
Texas and Oklahoma again yesterday.  There was only minimal activity
elsewhere.

Very high and extreme fire indices were reported in Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, South Dakota, California, and Washington.

NICC has not posted any fire weather watches or warnings for today.

[NICC Incident Management Situation Report, 8/1-3]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

Glacier NP (MT) - Black Bears Destroyed

A female black bear and her two cubs were destroyed last Thursday after
breaking into residences and obtaining food near the Goat Haunt ranger
station.  Early that morning, a ranger discovered that the bears had gotten
into a bunkhouse and consumed a significant amount of food from cupboards. 
The bears were still in the area, trying to enter other buildings.  He spent
the day attempting to keep them out, but the adult female was finally able to
get into an apartment through a bathroom window.  She tried to get food out
of the refrigerator, but the ranger drove her out the front door.  Throughout
the day, hikers were escorted to and from trailheads and boats, and rangers
limited access to the area around the ranger station.  The bears were
subsequently darted or trapped, then put down.  Assisting were wardens from
Canada's Waterton Lakes NP, who provided important information about the
bears' activities and assisted in handling them.  The bears had previously
caused problems in Waterton Lakes, where they obtained food stored inside a
boat and attempted to climb out on a food cache pole to obtain food.  The
bears were destroyed because of these activities and their persistent
aggressive behavior toward both visitors and park employees.  [Amy
Vanderbilt, PIO, GLAC]

PARK DISPATCHES

Opening - Glacier NP has opened a new backcountry permit center, funded by
receipts from the fee demonstration program.  The park has been taking
advanced reservations for its backcountry sites for two years.  The center
will also sell backcountry supplies.  

Tort Claim - Larry Carr of Whiskeytown NRA reports that the park has received
an interesting tort claim.  A fisherman has filed a tort for dead bait,
claiming that the government owes him $35 in damages because he couldn't find
a decent spot to fish, thereby causing his live bait to die.  One could file
this under imaginative rationalizations for being unable to catch fish, but
that would undoubtedly be inappropriate...

OPERATIONAL NOTES

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MEMORANDA

No entries.

INTERCHANGE

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MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS CALENDAR

Two calendars alternate in the Morning Report on Mondays - this one, which
contains meetings, seminars, 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.

Dates:      8/13-16     
Meeting:    Pecos Conference
Location:   Pecos NHP, NM
Details:    The focus of this year's annual conference will be on the
            archeological concepts of culture.  Short papers are also
            solicited on archeological breakthroughs, updates, unique
            discoveries, challenges and concerns.
Contact:    Judy Reed, Pecos NHP, PO Box 418, Pecos, NM 87552
Phone/fax:  --- ; ---
E-mail:     Judy Reed at NP-PECO
Submitter:  Pecos NHP

Dates:      8/19-29     
Meeting:    Northeast Bat Working Group Organizational Meeting
Location:   Greene Hills Manor, Barree, PA
Details:    The objectives are to establish bat conservation goals throughout
            the eastern states and to identify state and provincial working
            groups.
Contact:    Jim Kennedy, North American Bat Conservation Partnership
Phone/fax:  512-327-9721; 512-327-9724
E-mail:     jkennedy@batcon.org
Submitter:  Carol DiSalvo, IPM, WASO

Dates:      8/20-22     
Meeting:    "Stuff of Women's History: Using Artifacts, Landscapes and Built
            Environment to Research and Teach about Women's History in the
            Classroom"
Location:   Seneca Falls, NY
Details:    This conference, which features a series of lectures, slide
            shows, workshops and sessions, is co-sponsored by Women's Rights
            NHP.  NPS training credit.  Registration is $35; travel and per
            diem are benefitting account.
Closes:     Registration closing date: Not specified.
Contact:    John Dichtl, Organization of American Historians
Phone/fax:  812-855-7345; ---
E-mail:     senecafalls@oah.org, or www.indiana.edu/~oah/ sowh.html
Submitter:  Vivien Rose, WORI

Dates:      8/31-9/6    
Meeting:    Society of American Archivists
Location:   Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Orlando, FL
Details:    The conference will feature 68 sessions (nearly 100 hours) of
            sessions on many educational tracks.  See next week's calendar
            for pre-conference workshops.  Registration is $285 for non-
            members, and $235 for members before August 30th.
Closes:     N/A - but all registration after August 30th will be on site.
Contact:    Diane Vogt O'Connor for particulars; the hotel (407-934-4000) for
            reservations (must be before August 30th).
Phone/fax:  --- ; ---
E-mail:     Diane Vogt O'Connor at NP-WASO-CSD
Submitter:  Same

Dates:      9/16-19     
Meeting:    Fourth National Conference on Battlefield Preservation
Location:   Westin Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC
Details:    The conference will explore the tools and techniques used to
            define historic battlefields and effective methods of protecting
            battlefield land.
Contact:    Hampton Tucker
Phone/fax:  202-343-3580; ---
E-mail:     Hampton Tucker at NP-WASO-HPS
Submitter:  Same

Dates:      10/10-13    
Meeting:    Third Biennial North American Water Trails Conference/Chesapeake
            Water Trails Workshop
Location:   National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV
Details:    Topics include access, stewardship, building partnerships, and
            reducing conflicts.  There will be a presentation by Parks Canada
            and field trips on October 10th.
Closes:     Not given, but registration will be limited.
Contact:    Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Phone/fax:  717-236-8825; 717-236-9019
E-mail:     acbpa@pipeline.com
Submitter:  Don Briggs, RTCAP Potomac Field Office, PSO

Dates:      10/15       
Meeting:    Call for Papers: "On the Frontiers of Conservation: Discovery,
            Reappraisal, and Innovation," Tenth Conference on Research and
            Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands
Location:   Asheville, NC
Details:    The conference will not be held until March 22-26, 1999, but the
            deadline for papers is October 15th.  Abstracts are welcome on
            any topic related to research, resource management, and education
            in parks and protected areas, and from any field in cultural or
            natural resources.  There will be a management track to highlight
            case studies and practical applications, a track for research
            findings and policy discussions, and a regionally-focused
            Appalachian issues track.
Closes:     N/A
Contact:    George Wright Society
Phone/fax:  906-487-9722; 906-487-9405
E-mail:     gws@mail.portup.com; www.portup.com/~gws/ gws99.html
Submitter:  Dave Harmon, GWS; Bob Krumenaker, SHEN

Dates:      10/24       
Event:      35th Anniversary, Horace Albright Training Center
Location:   Grand Canyon NP, AZ
Details:    An open house and evening program will take place on the 24th. 
            If you are a former training manager, instructor or student,
            please send along your tales, impressions, thoughts or memories
            regarding the center.
Contact:    Bob Karotko
Phone/fax:  520-638-7988; 520-638-2953
E-mail:     Bob Karotko at NP-HOAL
Submitter:  Same

Dates:      10/24       
Event:      25th Anniversary, Opening of Alcatraz
Location:   Golden Gate NRA, CA     
Details:    Tentative plans are for a day-long celebration and re-dedication
            on Saturday, October 24th.  An overnight stay is included.  The
            park is attempting to contact every NPS employee "who has ever
            done time on the Rock."  
Contact:    Jim MacDonald or John Cantwell
Phone/fax:  415-705-1045; ---
E-mail:     GOGA Alcatraz at NP-GOGA, or goga_alcatraz@nps.gov
Submitter:  John Cantwell, GOGA

Dates:      11/5-7 *
Meeting:    Annual Woodland National Conference
Location:   Porter, Indiana
Details:    The theme of the annual conference is trade on southern Lake
            Michigan from 1634-1834.  The conference will bring together
            anthropologists, Native Americans, archeologists, historians and
            other subject matter experts on the 200 year period of Lake
            Michigan fur trading.
Closes:     Registration closing date: Not given
Contact:    Laura Gundrum, INDU
Phone/fax:  219-926-7561 x 232; 219-926-7561 x 537
E-mail:     npsindu@niia.net
Submitter:  Laura Gundrum, INDU

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