News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced more than $4 million in projects the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will implement to reduce the threat of rangeland fire and protect sagebrush habitat in the Great Basin region. The projects in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska – As part of President Obama's commitment to help Alaska Native leaders build strong, prosperous and resilient communities, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor today announced that Interior is launching initiatives to streamline Native land conveyances, improve rural energy development and provide greater local participation in the management of subsistence fish and wildlife resources on federal lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today reiterated his commitment to complete the Flight 93 Memorial in time for the 10th anniversary and directed Dan Wenk, Acting Director of the National Park Service, to negotiate for one more week to reach an agreement with the landowners over the property needed to build the memorial. The Park Service and the landowners have been working to find agreement for several years.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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 Rhode Island that will be included in the final report - ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Portland, ME - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt highlighted outdoor recreation during a visit to the Sterling Rope Company, where he was joined by representatives from the Sterling Rope Company, Good To-Go, and Flowfold for a signing of President Trump’s Pledge to America’s Workers.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Deb Haaland will take the oath of office to become the 54th Secretary of the Department of the Interior later today in a small ceremony with family. The oath of office will be administered by Chief of Staff Jennifer Van der Heide. Her first full day as Interior Secretary will be tomorrow. A ceremonial swearing-in with Vice President Kamala Harris will be announced later this week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: HISTORIC JAMESTOWNE, Va. – On the heels of the Administration's release of a plan to cut carbon pollution this week, on Thursday, June 5, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will tour Jamestown Island and host a roundtable discussion on the impacts of climate change on cultural resources at Virginia's Historic Jamestowne, part of Colonial National Historical Park
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. . WASHINGTON. * Bennington Lake Trail System. * Foothills Regional Trail. WEST VIRGINIA. * Sunrise Carriage Trail. WISCONSIN. * Nelson-Trevino Canoe Trail
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Bismarck, N.D. – Surrounded by fourth through eighth grade students at the Theodore Jamerson Elementary School, who joined him in viewing President Obama's address on the importance of learning to their future, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk underscored the President's message by relating to them the importance of education in his own life.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under President Obama's America's Great Outdoors program to promote outdoor recreation and reconnect Americans to nature, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of 28 trails as national recreation trails, adding almost 650 miles of trails to the National Trails System.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – A major step in the Department of the Interior's plan to fundamentally restructure its mineral leasing, regulatory and revenue collection agencies occurred today with the official establishment of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget (PMB).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Orginally Published by: The Hill . By: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt. Our national parks are in dire need of repairs. After decades of administrations and Congress paying lip service while kicking the can down the road, President Trump took bold action and provided unprecedented support ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Vanessa Kauffman, vanessa_kauffman@fws.gov. . Henderson, Kentucky – Friday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, along with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials, and their counterparts from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk announced today that the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan's reservation proclamation has been signed. Approximately 147 acres, more or less, will serve as the Tribe's initial reservation under the authority of the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986; 25 U.S.C. 467). The land is located in Wayland Township, Allegan County, Michigan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. – Culminating a 20-year partnership with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Army Corps of Engineers and private landowners, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to remove the Oregon chub from the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife under the Endangered Species Act. If finalized, the chub would be the first fish delisted due to recovery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SHANKSVILLE, PA. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, September 11 to deliver the keynote remarks at the annual September 11th observance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Office of the First Lady's Let's Move! Initiative and four federal agencies today launched Let's Move! in Indian Country (LMIC). LMIC is an initiative to support and advance the work that tribal leaders and community members are already doing to improve the health of American Indian ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and the Republic of Korea’s Minister for Trade, Industry, and Energy Moon Sung Wook met today in Washington D.C. Following up on the May 9 roundtable held with President Moon Jae-In, Minister Moon Sung Wook, and U.S. and Korean business leaders, they discussed ...
