News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Deputy Secretary Mike Connor and other senior Interior Administration officials will embark on a two-week nationwide tour to highlight progress the nation has made during the last eight years to: protect our nation’s lands, waters and wildlife; ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Queens, N.Y. – On Monday, June 16, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will announce more than $100 million in competitive matching grants under the Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resilience Grant Program, helping to deliver on the President's Climate Action Plan to provide better protection for Atlantic coast communities from future major storms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor announced today that the Department has signed agreements with five additional tribal nations to implement the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), which facilitates the purchase of individual interests in fractionated ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Ken Salazar. San Francisco, CA. Good morning. It is an honor to be here at the Commonwealth Club. . With me here today is Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes. Many of you know him. He is a champion for California's water, and has devoted much of his career to finding solutions to some of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama’s commitment to protect our nation’s unique outdoor spaces and ensure that every American has the opportunity to visit and enjoy them, the Obama Administration today launched the second year of the Every Kid in a Park program, which gives fourth graders and their families free access to federal lands and waters nationwide for a full year. Watch a video with highlights from Every Kid in a Park from last year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, VA – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the new increase of 162,000 in national jobs figures at Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, IL - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt was in Springfield, Illinois, designating the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot in Illinois as the 30th addition to the African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN). The designation formally recognizes the historical and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With California in its worst drought in the state's 160 years of record-keeping-and following Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s declaration of a Drought State of Emergency on January 17-the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture and Commerce are working with the State of California ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of eight federal departments and agencies today announced that they have signed an agreement setting up a national council to guide implementation of the Obama Administration's 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) – a national collaborative effort to put America's ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MEMPHIS -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today unveiled a special edition Federal Duck Stamp envelope, or cachet, that hunters, stamp collectors and other conservationists can purchase for $25 -- or $10 more than the cost of a regular Duck Stamp -- to help conservation efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. The funds will be used to acquire wetlands for inclusion in national wildlife refuges along the Gulf Coast.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department is providing $1.2 million in special assistance to the Government of American Samoa for post-tsunami disaster recovery projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will host a panel discussion including leading historians and scholars to discuss ways to celebrate and interpret lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: TRIANGLE, Va. – As part of National Park Week, on Thursday, April 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis at Prince William Forest Park, the largest green space in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, to meet with students and to hold a stakeholder meeting on ways to better connect youth and families to the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of two historic mining projects in Utah – the $12.3 million Alton Coal Tract coal lease in Kane County, Utah, and two coal lease modification proposals for the SUFCO Mine in Sevier County, which ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan and continued commitment to support Native American leaders in building strong, resilient communities, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn today announced the Administration ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Utah that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: KEENE, Ca. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today applauded President Obama's establishment of the César E. Chávez National Monument at Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz in Keene, California, Chávez' home and the headquarters of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) since the early 1970s when Chávez was its president.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced that he has named David Nawi of Sacramento, Calif., as Senior Advisor to the Secretary for California and Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, today approved $17.8 million in grants for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to conserve or restore more than 108,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Georgia. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $6.3 million in Georgia as part of the recovery plan signed ...
