News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

News Release: The webinar "Black History is American History: Centering the Long Civil Rights Struggle in DC Area Parks" occured on Aug. 17, 2021. A transcript of this video appears below.

News Release: In November 2021, staff from Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, John Muir National Historic Site, and SMART Workforce Center in Redding, California met at the Tower House Historic District of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area to re-establish an apple orchard.

News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to enhance the resilience of the West to drought and climate change, the Department of the Interior today announced a $728 million investment to deliver clean, reliable drinking water to rural and Tribal communities, support water conservation...

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden-Harris administration’s Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission released a report outlining a strategy to meet aerial firefighting equipment needs through 2030. As climate change fuels longer and more intense wildfire seasons, aerial assets bring unique response ...

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky district, Canyonlands National Park. Significance: trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Trailhead. Many features in this region bear imaginative names. Does this long sandstone dome looked like a giant whale to you? This trail walks along its side, then climbs from its "tail"...

News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Tactile Exhibit. Diplodocus longus is a species of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America. Diplodocus is one of the most abundant sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) in the Morrison Formation. Its pencil-like...

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park. Significance: trail. Amenities. 5 listed. Parking - Auto, Picnic Shelter/Pavilion, Picnic Table, Toilet - Vault/Composting, Trailhead. This is the steepest trail in this district of Canyonlands, descending over a thousand feet of scree...

News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Stegosaurus is a plant eating dinosaur with plates on its back and spikes on its tail. Stegosaurus ungulatus is a species of ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, found in the Morrison Formation. Stegosaurus...

IIJA Bureau of Land Management California Forest and Woodlands Resource Management grant opened on Feb. 14.

News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky district, Canyonlands. Significance: trail. Amenities. 4 listed. Parking - Auto, Picnic Table, Toilet - Vault/Composting, Trailhead. When the parking lot at Grand View Point is full, this easy hike is a good alternative with similar views of Monument Basin. People...

News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Camptosaurus is a two-legged plant eating dinosaur. The beak-like front of the skull did not have teeth but was used to nip vegetation. Camptosaurus may have lived in small groups. It depended on its speed to escape predators.

The US Interior Department published a three page rule on Feb. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Torvosaurus tanneri is a species of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It is known from the Carnegie Quarry at Dinosaur National Monument from a single bone, the humerus. This upper...

Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on Feb. 13.