By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: MIDORI KUNITOMI IWATA. Family # 2614. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 20-3-1. My parents were from Okayama Japan; father leaving for America during the Japan-China War. The family sent his second cousin to marry father. They settled in Hollywood. Father started a transfer and express business and mother raised...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: By Michael Lorusso, Museum Specialist at the South Florida Collections Management Center.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Near the wayside exhibit at the 4th pullout along the Blue Mesa Road Loop. Significance: Beginning of the Billings Gap Overlook hike. Amenities. 4 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto, Scenic View/Photo Spot, Trailhead. Look for the beginning of the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Point Reyes National Seashore's Point Reyes Hill Trailhead is located at the south end of Mount Vision Road, Inverness, California. Geographic Coordinates: 38.08395, -122.8707. Amenities. 2 listed. Parking - Auto, Trailhead. The Point Reyes Hill Trailhead is located at the southern...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 3 listed. Benches/Seating, Cellular Signal, Trailhead. Five trails of varying length and difficulty start at the Trailhead. Waco Mammoth National Monument is a new park, but its environment dates back thousands of years before the 1978 discovery of the Columbian Mammoth nursery...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: A shaded picnic area is a perfect place for a break from the hot, Texas sun.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Consistent with the direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Office today released two environmental assessments analyzing an oil and gas parcel in Michigan totaling 40 acres and three parcels in Louisiana totaling 88.81 acres for proposed...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: YAYOI OKUNO HIRASHIKI. Family # 4604. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 10-6-1. My parents were married in Japan and came to San Francisco in 1905. They had seven girls and a son, all born on Terminal Island, located between San Pedro and Long Beach. Father and a brother owned a commercial fishing boat and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Sparking new connections with national parks? There’s an app for that! The NPS App is a great tool when visiting a national park-like having a ranger in your smartphone to guide you. It has features for the first time visitor to the avid park traveler to sPark deeper connections in different ways. Check...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Steamtown National Historic Site offers world-class museum facilities which tell the story of steam railroading; both the nuts and bolts side and the personal side. Steamtown's Technology Museum is a visitor favorite, providing an immersive experience into the lights, sounds, and technology of the railroading industry.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2024. The budget includes $1.7 billion for the Bureau of Land Management to promote its multiple use and sustained yield mandate and strengthen the Administration’s commitment to address...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Interior Department published a five page notice on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 34.95959, -108.01163. Along the trail to the cinder cone, look for a deep, winding trench that begins at the mouth of the cinder cone volcano up ahead. This trench was created by a river of lava that breached the side of the cinder cone and swept cinder and lava several miles to...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: ATSUFUMI ARCHIE MIYATAKE. Family # 9975. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 20-12-4. Written using Archie Miyatake’s oral history interviews. My grandfather Junryo Miyatake came to the US from Zentsuji, Japan around 1902, and started a confectionary store in Los Angeles. He was successful and retired to Japan...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Celebrate the end of the season with fun and safe activities at the fifth annual Winter Adventure Day on Casper Mountain. This free, family-friendly event will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 15 at the Casper Mountain Biathlon Center at McMurry Mountain Park.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) welcomes Federica Lee as the new Associate State Director, and Peter Kelly as the State Fire Management Officer in California. These two additions to the BLM state leadership team bring with them more than 50 years of combined public service and an unwavering dedication to BLM’s mission for responsibly managing public lands for current and future generations.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: TETSUO KUNITOMI. Family # 2614. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 20-3-1. Written by Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Tet’s sister. Some Lines for a Younger Brother. Tetsuo Kunitomi was born on April 17, 1930 in Los Angeles, California. He was the youngest of eight children, born to immigrant parents from Japan. “Tets,"...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: RAYMOND E. MURAOKA. Family # 3654. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 14-4-1. My parents are American citizens; father was born in Hawaii and mother in Gardena, CA. Father was a farmer. At the time of Pearl Harbor there were six children: boy, 11; boy, nine; boy, eight; boy, six; girl, four; and girl, two. One...
