NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, May 1, 2015

INCIDENTS

Jefferson NEM

Aryan Nation Hold First Amendment Rally In Park

On April 25th, a First Amendment gathering was held on the west steps of the Old Courthouse. The rally was sponsored by Aryan Nation/Church of Jesus Christ Christian in support of imprisoned Aryan Nation member Gary Yarbrough, currently held in federal prison in Florence, Colorado. About 20 people were in attendance.

The designated area for the special use permit had to be cleared by rangers, as it was occupied by members of the Anti-Racist Collective, who did not have a permit. The area was cordoned off with bike racks. About 40 people from this group stayed and heckled the members from the Aryan Nation. Rangers and officers from the St. Louis Police Department monitored the rally and a few verbal warnings were issued for language.

The rally lasted just over an hour and members of both groups were having civil conversations by the end of the rally.

Click on the link below for a story with photos and additional details.

HYPERLINK "http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/white-supremacists-hold-downtown-rally-counter-protesters-gather/article_710ca1d6-3017-5bc5-bd16-ffb2b613bf9a.html" http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/white-supremacists-hold-downtown-rally-counter-protesters-gather/article_710ca1d6-3017-5bc5-bd16-ffb2b613bf9a.html

[Mike Horton, Law Enforcement Specialist]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):

Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division - A new video tells the story of nineteen youth, half of whom are blind or visually impaired, and their journey of discovery in the Grand Canyon as part of the No Barriers Youth Sound Academy.

Land Resources Division - Land Resources Division cartographers recently completed a major effort to ensure that authoritative National Park Service boundary and ownership GIS data are available on Data.gov and GeoPlatform.gov.

Office of Communications - The NPS and Maritime Administration have awarded approximately $2.6 million in grants for projects that teach about and preserve the nation's maritime history.

Fire and Aviation Management - Rayne Rohrbach, a law enforcement ranger and park structural fire coordinator at Zion National Park, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Prevention 52 Award.

To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:

NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index

Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/

The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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