News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

News Release: In 1864, United States and Confederate forces clashed on what is now Monocacy National Battlefield. The U.S. Army fought valiantly to repel a desperate Confederate attack on Washington D.C. While the U.S. did not win the battle, they successfully delayed the Confederate advance long enough for reinforcements to reach Washington and defeat the Confederates at the battle of Fort Stevens.

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 44° 25' 9.09"N 111° 47' 35.81"W. Significance: One of the battle sites during the Nez Perce Flight of 1877. MANAGED BY: The Idaho State Lands Department, Private Property. After the horrific attack at Big Hole, the Nez Perce went south, crossing back into Idaho over Bannock Pass before...

News Release: LAMAR Institute Publication Series, Report Number 205. Grant Number. P16AP00371. Authors. * Daniel T. Elliott. * Michael Seibert. * The LAMAR Institute, Inc. Savannah, Georgia, 2017. Executive Summary. This report details the results of the 2017 Get the Lead Out! Workshop that was conducted by the LAMAR...

News Release: The Shenandoah Valley supported human settlement for thousands of years that continues today. Virginia's colonial land policies meant both opportunity for colonists but danger for those human buffers against colonial conflicts. Not all settlement was voluntary; enslaved inhabitants shaped the Valley's history too.

News Release: Project Director. Sez Atamturktur. Clemson University, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering 110 Lowry Hall, S Palmetto Blvd, Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-3003 sez@clemson.edu. Team Members. Civil Engineering. *. Saurabh Prabhu, Ph.D. Candidate. *. Elizabeth Wheeler, Ph.D. Student. *. Greg Roche, Ph.D.

News Release: Many visitors enjoy having picnics! Since there aren’t any restaurants in the park, it’s a good idea to bring food if you plan on staying a while. Groceries, snacks, and prepared food are available in the towns of Friday Harbor and at Roche Harbor near American Camp.

News Release: Authors. *. Chandra L. Reedy. *. Richard A. Corbett. *. Martin Burke. Summary. Many materials used in the storage and display of museum objects are potentially corrosive and should not be used in the vicinity of specific metals. The ‘Oddy test’ is the procedure used in most museums to assess the suitability...

News Release: In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant, the new general-in-chief of the US Army, ordered his commanders to destroy the Confederacy's armies, transportation networks, and its economic and agricultural base in the Shenandoah Valley and West Virginia.

News Release: An Overview and Evaluation of Digital Recordkeeping Tools with Addendum: Implementing IrisBG at National Parks.

News Release: Objectives: 1. In a culminating product: a. Identify important WWII location(s) in Wilmington, N.C. and describe their historical significance. b. Summarize the contributions of Wilmington, North Carolina service members and civilians to home front wartime efforts. c. Evaluate the struggles, and contributions...

News Release: By Watershed Stewards Program Corpsmember Natale Urquhart, San Francisco Bay Area Network Salmonid Monitoring Program.

News Release: Institution: Cornell University. Principal Investigator: Jennifer Minner, PhD. Co-Principal Investigator. Jeffrey Chusid. Additional authors in alphabetical order: * Nico Azel. * Yanlei Feng. * Geslin George. * Xiao Shi. * Feiyang Sun. * Taru. Grant Number: P14AP00278. June 18 2017. Executive Summary.

Two trees from the 1800s near the Theodore Roosevelt Home in Oyster Bay, N.Y., have been scheduled for a trim and likely removal by the eastern National Park Service Arborist Incident Response Team because of the fungal Dutch elm disease.

There were eight notices published by the Interior Department in week ending Jan. 7, according to the Federal Register.

The Bureau of Land Management Pahrump field office has placed protective fencing at Big Dune in Nye County, Nevada, to protect the rare beetle known as Giuliani’s Dune Scarab from the public.