News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Department will commit more than $8.7 million for a variety of projects throughout Nevada, including recreational improvement, wildlife habitat conservation and environmental restoration, and hazardous fuels reduction and wildfire prevention.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The Obama administration today announced that the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 in New Orleans on June 20, 2012. The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of 10 new national historic landmarks, including properties that honor LGBT and civil rights history. The designation recognizes the properties as places that possess exceptional value and quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: POINT ARENA – On Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join the local community and other federal, state and local leaders to celebrate President Obama's designation today of the Point Arena-Stornetta Unit of California Coastal National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GLASGOW - The Department of the Interior joined land managers from around the globe today to endorse and commemorate a Protected and Conserved Areas Joint Statement (Joint Statement) on Climate Change and Biodiversity Crisis, submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP26 and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced today the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of approximately 560 acres of Federal lands to the U.S. Department of the Army (Army) to build roughly 70 miles of border barriers. This action comes in response to a series of applications ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt traveled to New Mexico and Arizona before joining President Donald J. Trump at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland to commemorate Memorial Day. The Secretary met with Tribal leadership, staff from the National Park Service, Bureau ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, will meet with members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to discuss the Cape Wind Project and will take a boat tour of the proposed wind farm site near Cape Cod, MA. Media is invited to participate in the boat tour and the media availability with Secretary Salazar, but must RSVP by Monday at 10:00am.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Water-loving outdoor recreationists and local communities in 27 states will have additional resources to help boaters keep America’s waters clean, thanks to more than $17 million in Clean Vessel Act program grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY – An unprecedented two-year undercover operation led by agents from Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the FBI today began rounding up what prosecutors call a ring of archeological grave robbers who looted pristine sites in the Southwest, desecrated ancient American Indian burials and stole priceless artifacts, selling them to dealers and collectors who were associated with the network.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that Steve Wackowski will serve as his Senior Advisor for Alaska Affairs based out of Anchorage. Zinke made the announcement in Anchorage as part of his current tour of Alaska.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing to consider the nominations of Chavonda Jacobs-Young to be under secretary for research, education, and economics and Margo Schlanger to be assistant secretary of agriculture for civil rights.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BRECKSVILLE, Ohio – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service will offer three fee-free weekends this summer to encourage Americans seeking affordable vacations to visit these national treasures. There are 391 national parks located across the country in 49 states.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today a final rule to create a pathway for reestablishing a formal government-to-government relationship with the Native Hawaiian community. The final rule sets out an administrative procedure and criteria that the U.S. Secretary of the Interior would use if the Native Hawaiian community forms a unified government that then seeks a formal government-to-government relationship with the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and lead in clean energy, the Department of the Interior today released its 2013 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan, which outlines actions planned over the next year to cut energy use and waste in agency operations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Robert G. Stanton today issued a joint statement on the contributions Dorothy I. Height made to the national parks,. as preparations are made for her funeral services next week.*
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised the Senate's confirmation of Joseph Pizarchik as director of the Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Oct. 18, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will participate in a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress (CAP) to explore the future of policymaking related to removing obsolete and aging dams across the United States. The panel, titled “Assessing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Main Interior Building. Today, we remember and pay tribute to the 134 Department of the Interior law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty since the Department's founding in 1849. . This roll of honor includes 80 officers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 36 National Park Service park ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SACRAMENTO, CA – On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will tour the federal C.W. “Bill” Jones Pumping Plant in Byron, Calif., to examine firsthand critical water storage and conveyance facilities. Accompanying the Secretary will be California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird, Acting Commissioner of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation Lowell Pimley, and other federal, state and local officials.
