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J'ai Feli 90
SECRET /NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
5177 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
26 FEB 90
DATE OF REPORT:
27 FEB 90
START:
0958
END:
1023
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
1.
(S/STD)
MISSION:
To describe the target site (Forest fire in
Yellowstone National Park) in Stage 2 terminology.
2.
(S/STD)
VIEWER TASKING:
No coordinates are provided for this site,
so the target number alone was used as cueing.
No other information given.
3.
(S/STD)
COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies.
052 quickly proceeded
through Stage 1, but incompletely.
Stage 2 filled in the missing elements
to resolve the site. Post session discussion concerned the "self-
correcting" quality of CRV, as shown by this session. Later, this session
was compared to a previous site 052 had done (with another monitor). Strong
similarities exist between the two sites, showing a factor of
"reproducability" of the CRV process.
5
4.
(S/STD) EVALUATION:
3
5.
(S/STD) SEARCH EVALUATION:
V/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA STIPPLE CHANNELS ONLY
SECRET/NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA
(DT)
DECLASSIFY:
OADR
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PI: none
Av : none
26 Feb 90
0958
Ft. meade
018
5177
miss BK
5177
A- Wavy Accross
fluid
X B. Water
5177
miss BK
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5177
A, Wavy Accros
Soft
B. Water
A. Loops
Stoping up
Smooth
B.
5177
0
V
A-Loop
hard
B. Island
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5177
A. Coop
hard
B. Island
52
Blue
fresh coolair
AOL BK
Tree
Bird Noise
Wind sound in trees
Cool on face
Salt
Bright Sunny
Cool su face
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09960002-BK

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AOL BK
Hawaii
move to the date
of Is the target
events.
move to latest event
and describe.
52
Blue
Black
AOL BIC
Pearl Harbor
Park
Bad Smell
V
Round
Y
Smoot
Slippery
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Sage 5
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& Sweet smell
6 Black
blue
1
Dark
warm
( Blue
UBlack
birey?
Smokey
Bright Red Stuff
Big
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Site 1017
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garage 6
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0 Blue
1) Reddish purple
seems Big
glowing
Bright
C
jagged
Warm
Conf BK
But my feet are
Cold
Reel
*
top?
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Site 1023
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CPYRGHT
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CRAIG FUJI-THE SEATTLE TIMES
Fire fighters watch as the Storm Creek fire engulfs the forest near Yellowstone's northeast entrance
"We Could Have Stopped This"
Yellowstone Park's worst blazes spark a controversy
F
or the first 100 years after Yellowstone
National Park was created in 1872, its
caretakers diligently protected its forests
from fire damage. As scientists learned
more about the balance of nature in areas
like Yellowstone, they discovered that fire
was sometimes a helpful, even necessary,
ingredient. Thus in 1972 the National
Park Service adopted a policy of allowing
spontaneous fires to burn unimpeded un-
less they seriously threatened lives or
property.
Natural burning has brooked little op-
position, but then Yellowstone has rarely
suffered serious fire damage. Until this
summer, that is. In the midst of the hottest
and dryest season in the park's 116-year
history, as many as ten separate fires have
raged over 582,401 acres of Yellowstone's
2.2 million acres, four adjacent national
forests and Grand Teton National Park.
Ignited by lightning and whipped by high
winds, the flames have threatened some
of the park's most popular sites, including
Old Faithful. Last week more than 500
tourists and employees were evacuated
from one of Yellowstone's main tourist
villages after the so-called North Fork
fire burned within two miles. The swift
fires occasionally raced into areas before
park officials could warn tourists to stay
away. "We could have stopped this."
complained one of the 8.000 weary fire
fighters battling the blazes last week.
"They won't let us."
Park officials maintain that they can
only contain the fires, not extinguish them.
Meanwhile, defenders of the natural-burn
policy trumpet its benefits: the flames
clear thick stands of timber and prepare
the soil for a new generation of flora. For
example, many of the seed cones of the
lodgepole pine, which covers 60% of the
park, only open after being exposed to in-
tense heat. Ecologists expect the fires to
help restore the park's depleted stands of
aspen trees and increase the wide array of
insects, birds and mammals that have
found Yellowstone's aging forests increas-
ingly inhospitable. "It's part of living in an
ecosystem that is basically wild and un-
controllable," says Louisa Willcox of the
Greater Yellowstone Coalition. which
supports the natural-burn policy.
But critics say it is irresponsible to
MONTANA
Northeast
Entrance
- North Entrance
İFAŇ
YELLOWSTONE
NORTH
FORK
CLOVER-
MIST
Entrance
NATIONAL
East Entrance
RED- I
SHOSHONE
PARK
WYOMING
Old Faithful
MINK
CREEK
FALLS
South Entrance
10
miles
CANADA
YELLOWSTONE
2. Area of
fire
MONT.
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WYO.
NEV. UTAH COLO.
TIME Map by Paul J. Pugliese
pretend that Yellowstone and other high-
use wilderness areas can thrive on nature
alone. "Letting nature take its course here
is not based on realistic assumptions,"
says Alston Chase, author of Playing God
in Yellowstone. "What starts as a policy of
laissez-faire ends up becoming a policy of
massive interference." Chase advocates
setting controlled fires to produce the de-
sired mosaic of vegetation, while creating
breaks that would prevent natural fires
from spreading out of control. "You don't
prevent forest fires," says Chase. "You
just postpone them by building up fuels.
This summer we're paying the price for
more than a century of mismanagement."
Chase is concerned that a backlash to
the natural-burn policy may produce the
other extreme: the rapid extinguishing of
all forest fires. Residents, tourists and
area politicians have already sharply crit-
icized the Park Service for waiting too
long before moving to contain the latest
blazes. "I question the wisdom of sticking
to the policy in a year like this, with these
severe drought and weather conditions."
said Montana Senator Max Baucus, a
Democrat. Wyoming Senator Malcolm
Wallop, a Republican, agreed, adding his
worry about the impact of the fires on the
local economy. "We've had a catastrophe
in our tourist industry," he said.
Yellowstone officials anticipate con-
gressional oversight hearings, and some
observers predict that the summer of 1988
will be a turning point in the debate over
how fires should be managed. "This fire
will be an example of what went right and
what went wrong," says Willcox. But with
many areas still blazing out of control late
last week, such a postmortem won't take
place until fall at the earliest, after nature
finally snuffs out the last flames with rain
and snow.
-By Laurence Zuckerman.
Reported by Patrick Dawson/Yellowstone
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