News from November 2021
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 Ohio that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: MONROE, Mich.- Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland will join Senator Carl Levin, Rep. John Dingell and state and local officials at an event Oct. 22 to mark the establishment of the newest unit of the National Park System, River Raisin National Battlefield Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BROWNING, Mont. – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke visited the Blackfeet Nation where he signed the first authorization of funds for the Tribe under the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act under the Tribe's Expenditure Plan (Plan). ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Contact: Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov. WASHINGTON – Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced the reopening of the federal government:. "I thank President Trump for his leadership, which resulted in a deal to end the shutdown ...
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 Idaho that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Thank you, Superintendent Ditmanson. . I am here today on behalf of President Barack Obama to celebrate Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to honor our ancestors who left us this treasure, and to rededicate an American icon for a new century. . As we gather on this ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMS, Calif. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell today joined with hundreds of community members and local leaders to dedicate the Berryessa Snow Mountain ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WACO, TEXAS – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Former First Lady Laura Bush today joined community members to celebrate the President’s designation ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt inspected a key piece of national water infrastructure at Morrow Point Dam, located on the Gunnison River, a major Colorado River tributary in western Colorado. Morrow Point Dam is one of three dams managed by the Bureau of Reclamation that ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: OLYMPIA, Wash. – On Tuesday, July 19, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, U.S. Congressman Denny Heck, U.S. Congressman Derek Kilmer, and other federal, state, tribal and community leaders to celebrate the renaming ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of National Hunting and Fishing Day on September 28th, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System, opening up new hunting ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LONGMONT, CO – Calling them a vanguard for a reinvigorated U.S. high-tech manufacturing sector, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today met with employees of an innovative solar panel company that has created more than 200 ‘green jobs' in two years and expects to double employment by next year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed two secretarial orders to advance American energy independence. The Secretary’s orders foster responsible development of coal, oil, gas, and renewable energy on federal and Tribal lands and initiate review of agency actions directed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a testament to the Trump Administration's America First Energy Plan, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) third-quarter oil and gas lease sale in New Mexico broke all previous records by grossing nearly $1 billion in bonus bids for 142 parcels. The two-day sale brought in more revenue ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Oak Harbor, Ohio – Furthering the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase access to public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge a proposal for new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 74 national wildlife refuges and 15 national fish hatcheries managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) across more than 1.4 million acres.
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 Oregon that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, President Donald J. Trump proposed a $12.8 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget for the Department of the Interior, including a new, innovative $50 million initiative that would begin to transform and build a more stable and permanent wildland firefighting workforce to better align with the challenges of prolonged periods of wildfire activity and the need to more aggressively implement active vegetation management.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior is expediting all possible support and assistance to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and FEMA in the wake of destruction from Hurricane Irma.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Aug. 25, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will mark the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS) by visiting Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park – the nation’s first national park – as part of a nationwide tour to commemorate the NPS Centennial.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency John Laird today released an innovative landscape-level draft renewable energy and conservation plan covering more than 22 million acres in the California desert, ...
