News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - As part of its ongoing effort to support responsible renewable energy development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is holding a public scoping meeting in Salt Lake City to solicit feedback on the recently announced programmatic environmental impact statement for the BLM’s utility-scale solar energy planning.

The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: San Juan Islands, WA - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the San Juan Islands National Monument Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Record of Decision (ROD) is available to review on their ePlanning site at.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has invited public comment on a proposed rule change to areas available for aerial and roped recreation in Utah's Mineral and Hell Roaring canyons to protect wildlife habitat.

News Release: Throughout the summer season, join Park staff or a volunteer outside of the Bunker Hill Lodge for a "Decisive Day Talk." These talks provide an overview of the Battle of Bunker Hill and its memory. Hear the stories of the colonial militiamen who constructed the redoubt where the Bunker Hill Monument...

News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Member of the Boston Vigilance Committee, abolitionist, japanner. Date of Birth: May 7, 1806. Date of Death: May 16, 1882. William Blakemore served in the Boston Vigilance Committee, an organization that provided essential services to freedom seekers coming to and through Boston...

News Release: 1829. Antonio Armijo leads the first trade caravan from Abiquiú to Los Angeles, opening the Old Spanish Trail. 1831. William Wolfskill and George C.Yount blaze a more northern route that ascends into central Utah before heading southwest into California. 1834. José Avieta and 125 men arrive at Los...

News Release: 4,000 BP. During the Archaic Period people were living in brush huts near the floodplain of the Rio Grande in what is now Keystone Park. Human occupation of the Rio Grande Valley dates to at least 12,000 years ago. 1521. Aztec ruler Moctezuma II surrenders Tenochtitlán to Spanish conquistador Hernán...

The Road to Healing cross-country tour is the first effort made by the federal government to listen to those who live with the intergenerational trauma caused by the forced relocation of Native children to the federal schools.

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News Release: The history of women rangers in the National Park Service (NPS) was believed to start with Yosemite and Mount Rainier national parks in 1918, followed by Yellowstone in 1920. New information confirms that Wind Cave National Park, which had a third of the visitors of these other parks in 1917, hired the...

News Release: 14 miles southeast of Greenwater, Washington on Mather Memorial Parkway (SR410).

FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Youth and Conservation Corps. grant opened on Feb. 1.

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News Release: Here Comes the Pony!. The Pony Express has fascinated Americans since its first riders hit leather in April 1860, heading west from St. Joseph, Missouri, and east from San Francisco, California. This innovative overland mail service lasted only 19 months, but it created an immediate sensation and won...