By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2024, which includes significant funding increases for wildland fire and hazardous fuels management. These investments will help address the nation’s wildfire crisis and implement comprehensive ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: SHO MARUYAMA. Family # 2859. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 16-4-1. My father came to the US in 1898 and worked many jobs, including house boy, when he first arrived. His family operated a futon store in Ueda, Japan and he and his older brother had no opportunity in the store because of many older brothers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: GLORIA HISAKO TAMURA MORITA. Family # 7611. Camp: Tule Lake, CA. Address: 46-16-D. My father Jinjiro Tamura came to the United States from Japan about 1906, seeking a better life. He later returned to Japan to marry my mother Toku Koide. They settled in the Sacramento area and worked in a tomato cannery...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The Budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share-all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: EIICHI “H.E." KAMIYA. Family # 11-017. Camp: Rohwer, AR. Address: 38-11-A. My father was born in Hawaii and went to Japan at age five when his father died, but returned to the US at the age of 19. My mother was born in CA, went to Japan for education at age five, and returned to the US at age 15. My father...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: GEORGE H. MORISHITA. Family # 1340. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 5-11-3. My father emigrated to the United States in 1906, his fare financed by pay for serving in the Japanese army during the 1904-05 war between Japan and Russia. In 1924, in order to beat the deadline of the “Japanese Exclusion Act," my...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced a more than $120 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act to rebuild and restore units of the National Wildlife Refuge System and partnering State Wildlife Management Areas that have been affected by adverse weather events. The investment ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: RALPH LAZO. Family # 21019. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 19-9-5. Written using Ralph Lazo’s interviews and speeches. “The first Lazos landed here in 1519 with Cortes. I’m the adventurous type. It runs in the family." Born in a Black hospital in Los Angeles, Ralph received his early schooling on an Indian...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. In front of you on either side of the path is the remnants of a Live Oak tree that fell across the trail. Instead of removing the tree, rangers separated the trunk into two pieces and left them to decompose. This was done for the betterment of the environment, because...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: What is your favorite part of visiting Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area? Picnics? Hiking? Roasting marshmallows over the campfire in the evening? One of our favorite things is paddling around the lake!.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: ALBERT MIZUHARA. Family # 22687. Camp: Topaz, UT. Address: 31-7-B. My grandfather Hyusuke Mizuhara immigrated to San Francisco in the late 1880s with his second wife, Kin. Their four children, including my father Katsui Mizuhara (1889-1942), soon followed. Before immigrating, my grandfather was a sea captain...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Read the latest project updates and completions from the National Trails Office of the National Park Service (NPS).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: The National Trails System invites your family to #sParkCuriosity by completing the national trails’ Junior Ranger Programs ! As Junior Rangers, children can explore some of the national scenic and historic trails that make up the National Trails System, spanning across all 50 states and more than 55,000...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to clean up legacy pollution while creating good-paying jobs and new economic opportunities for coalfield communities, the Department of the Interior today announced that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is awarding ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-After being disbanded in 2019, newly appointed members of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) gathered this week to discuss strategies to prevent, eradicate and control invasive species, which impose substantial costs on society and cause damages that impact the global economy, including an estimated $120 billion in environmental damages and losses annually in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: AYAKO NOMURA MACHIDA. Family # 3808. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 15-6-1. I remember December 7, 1941 (Sunday morning) very well. My mother had just made breakfast and the family was ready to eat. My brother came running into the kitchen to say that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and that the United States...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: FRANK MORI. Family #14145. Camp: Gila River, AZ. Address: 47-14-C. I was born in 1920 and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. My father had emigrated from Japan in 1898. He worked for two years in Hawaii on a sugar plantation and then came to California. Eventually settling in Santa Barbara, he worked...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $43,599,090 contract to NW Construction out of Bozeman, Montana to conduct a dam modification to Fresno Dam. Project construction is scheduled to begin in April 2023. The Tailwater Fishing Access Site will be closed to public access once construction starts.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on March 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: One of the most resilient species of abalone in California is also one of the most endangered.
