NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT

To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Wednesday, April 14, 1999

                               *** NOTICE ***

Due to a glitch of epic proportions, cc:Mail mailboxes around the National
Park Service - particularly administrative addresses and admin issues
bulletin boards - were flooded yesterday with returned, undeliverable Morning
Reports from addresses in about a dozen Northeast Region parks, many of these
Morning Reports dating all the way back to last July.  Just over 2,300 such
returns came back to this address, taking about two hours to download.  The
cause of the problem is unknown, but did not originate here.  The Morning
Report is sent to a single address on a bankshot mailing list; it is then
passed on to regional hubs, then to parks and offices, then to you.  The
problem appears to have occurred at a hub somewhere.  As of this writing, the
returns have stopped coming in.  We are attempting to determine just what
happened...

INCIDENTS

99-123 - Pecos NHP (NM) - MVA with Fatality
     
On the morning of April 11th, F.M., 33, of Pecos, New Mexico, was
killed in a serious rollover motor vehicle accident on the park's Old La Joya
Road.  Rangers driving to work were passed by several state police units
speeding toward the park and subsequently found the officers at the scene of
the accident.  Evidence at the scene indicated that the accident had occurred
sometime during the previous night. F.M.'s Ford Mustang left the road at
a high rate of speed and rolled several times before coming to rest. F.M.
was ejected.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  The cause of the accident
is still under investigation.  Rangers are working with state troopers and
the state medical examiner on the follow-up investigation.  [Gary Hartley,
CR, PECO, 4/12]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

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OPERATIONAL NOTES

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MEMORANDA

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INTERCHANGE

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PARKS AND PEOPLE

John Day Fossil Beds - The park has an opening for a GS-0025-11 chief of
visitor protection and resource management.  It's listed on USAJobs,
announcement number CCSO-99-19.  Responsibilities include law enforcement,
natural and cultural resources management oversight, and supervision.  The
incumbent is the only fully-commissioned law enforcement employee on staff. 
For more information, please call (541)987-2333.

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Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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