News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has opened the South Side Trail, a scenic, winding route paralleling the Elk River in the Headwaters Forest Reserve, and announced a free nature writing workshop, also at the Headwaters Forest.

News Release: MILWAUKEE - The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event August 12-13, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at Ohio Horse Park, 400 Bobcat Lane, Franklin Furnace, Ohio.

News Release: Prineville, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Deschutes Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal to renew grazing permits for five allotments near La Pine, OR. Public input will help to inform an environmental assessment (EA) focused on the La Pine Grazing Allotments Renewal Project. The 30-day public scoping period starts today and ends Aug. 15, 2022.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced the dates of public listening sessions hosted by the Interagency Working Group on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting to gather information and develop recommendations for improving federal hardrock mining regulations, laws and permitting processes.

News Release: With the recent rain, cooler and damper conditions, and the resulting reduction in fire danger on the Kenai Peninsula, effective immediately all campfire and fire restrictions for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Chugach National Forest lands on the Kenai Peninsula are...

News Release: ASHFORD, Wash. - Rehabilitation of Stevens Canyon Road began on July 5, 2022. Stevens Canyon Road is the only east-west route through the park and connects the popular Paradise area with State Route (SR) 123 near the park’s eastern boundary. During the summer 2022 construction period, contractors will be repairing the section of road between Stevens Creek and Box Canyon. Work will include replacement of guard walls, repair of avalanche chutes, and repair of the road surface.

News Release: Friday Harbor, WA - Encampment, the park’s annual popular living history weekend is back this year at San Juan Island NHP after a three-year hiatus. Please join us this coming August 6 & 7, 2022, at the English Camp Parade Ground for a glimpse of the past as living history interpreters dressed in period...

News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - The Power Line wildfire on the southeast flank of Mauna Loa in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is 90% contained as of Thursday morning, July 14, and remains at 42.5 acres in size.

“Inflation (Executive Calendar)” was published on pages S3289-S3296 of the Congressional Record on July 14.

News Release: On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 13th, two wild horses from the Maryland herd N9BM-JO (Adrianna’s Happy Camper) and N2BHS-CKT (Starlight) crossed to the mainland over the Rt. 611 Verrazano bridge leading to Assateague Island. National Park and State Park staff safely corralled the horses about one half mile from the bridge on the mainland. The horses were trailered and returned to the island safely a few hours later. No horse or human injuries occurred.

There were 29 press releases or notices published by the Department of Interior in June.

There is one release scheduled to be published on July 15.

News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will host on-site industry days on August 2 and 3, 2022 for firms interested in a proposed project to reconstruct seawalls along the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, on behalf of the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, are seeking public comments on the development of a definition framework for old-growth and mature forests on federally managed lands. This work will help inform how the departments respond to President Biden’s Executive Order 14072, Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities and Local Economies.

There is one release scheduled to be published on July 15.