News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - An interagency working group chaired by Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes today released a report that calls for an integrated management strategy for the rapidly changing Arctic. The report highlights the need for a coordinated approach that uses the best available science to integrate cultural, environmental and economic factors in decision-making about development and conservation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BISMARK, N.D. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department will fund $500 million in new school and housing construction, road and bridge improvements, and workforce development projects for federally recognized tribes across the nation. Under the American Recovery and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CAMBRIDGE, MD – On Saturday, March 9, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will join Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and other state and local officials for a celebration of the life and legacy of Maryland native Harriet Tubman on the centennial of her death.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, November 5, 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn will join President Obama, other cabinet Secretaries, and leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes at the 7th annual White House Tribal Nations Conference.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: NANJEMOY, MD – On Friday, May 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Congressman and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer to celebrate the success of the Land and Water Conservation Fund during its fiftieth anniversary with a visit to Douglas Point State Natural Resources Management Area ...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a five page proposed rule on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to a request from Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), the U.S. Department of the Interior announced today $497,000 in additional federal funding to combat a tree-killing fungus that causes Rapid ‘Ōhiʻa Death (ROD), a disease that threatens the State’s tropical forests and delicate ecosystems ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a final 50-State America's Great Outdoors Report outlining more than 100 of the country's most promising projects designed to protect special places and increase access to outdoor spaces. The full report – which contains two projects per ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today traveled to the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana to announce the first suite of projects to move forward using funding from the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund, established in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy to manage part of the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, presented a lecture to U.S. Department of the Interior employees and conservation partners titled “Conservation and Communities: The Shifting Paradigm of International Conservation.” Her remarks focused on the growing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in celebration of this year’s National Park Service Centennial, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will join the Student Conservation Association for a day of service on Monday, January 18.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – From March 20, 2019 through March 28, 2019, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Opioid Reduction Task Force conducted a Criminal Interdiction Operation focusing on areas of highway known for high drug trafficking into and around Indian Country. The operation yielded an estimated $2.3 million in federally illegal drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to California and Washington to highlight community preparedness and resilience efforts in the face of natural disasters, accelerated by climate change.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the harmful impacts invasive species have on the Nation’s natural and cultural resources, today the Department of the Interior released an interdepartmental report, Safeguarding America’s Lands and Waters from Invasive Species: A National Framework for Early Detection and ...
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 Wyoming. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $68.2 million in Wyoming as part of the recovery plan signed by the President to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st Century.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Beauty Mountain in California, the San Juan Islands of Washington, and Castle Peak in Colorado are among 18 backcountry areas in nine states that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar highlighted today as deserving protection by Congress as national conservation areas or wilderness areas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Department of the Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff issued the following statement regarding the enactment of a new firearms law for national parks and wildlife refuges that will take effect in nine months:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued the following statement regarding two crewmembers killed in a firefighting plane crash on Sunday:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Secretary Jewell, Congresswoman Tsongas to Celebrate River Day in Massachusetts, Highlight Obama Administration’s Every Kid in a Park Initiative
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 Minnesota that will be included in the final report - representing ...
