News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK (April 2, 2015) – In advance of next year's National Park Service Centennial, the Park Service and the National Park Foundation today kicked off a nationwide campaign to encourage people to learn about and connect with the 407 national parks by launching a one-of-a-kind interactive installation that invites them to share their stories about their favorite parks and discover new parks and public lands they might want to visit.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ANCHORAGE, AK – Following a briefing from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on the Alaska Climate Science Center and the Alaska Mapping Initiative, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will hold a media availability in Anchorage on Tuesday, September 3.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- The National Park Service, the Families of Flight 93 and Svonavec, Inc. today jointly announced that they have reached an agreement to allow timely development of the 274-acre heart of the planned Flight 93 Memorial on sacred ground in Shanksville, PA.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW CASTLE, DE – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, local officials and community stakeholders to celebrate President Obama's establishment of First State National Monument as America's 400th national park site and the first unit of the National Park System in Delaware.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citing a need to improve certainty and order in oil and gas leasing on U.S. public lands, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced several reforms that the Bureau of Land Management will undertake to improve protections for land, water, and wildlife and reduce potential ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – From the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall to Yellowstone and Death Valley, the National Park Service will undertake more than 750 projects at parks across the country to create jobs, restore and protect our nation's parks, and preserve our history and heritage for future generations, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On the first day of Black History Month, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today celebrated the life and legacy of famed opera singer Marian Anderson by designating a mural depicting her 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert as a historic site under the African American Civil Rights Network Act of 2017. President Donald J. Trump signed the Act into law in January 2018. This is the first time the Act has been used to designate a site.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke traveled to Washington State where he held two meetings, one with the Spokane Tribal Business Council and another with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. These meetings focused on the ongoing opioid epidemic and how the Department ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, July 19, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Senator Mark Udall will host an event at Horsetooth Reservoir in Fort Collins, Colo., to announce a federal, local and private partnership to reduce the risks of wildfire to Colorado's water supply.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell yesterday joined Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, the Chiefs of five American Indian tribes and leaders of The Conservation Fund to recognize the acquisition of Werowocomoco, a major American Indian site of international significance in Virginia. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced President Trump’s $11.6 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget blueprint request for the Department of the Interior. The budget meets the Department's core mission while also saving taxpayers $1.5 billion or 12 percent reduction from the FY 2017 Annualized Continuing Resolution level.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Michael Connor will host a Listening Session on March 19, 2015 to hear directly from tribal leaders and individual landowners on the progress of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program). Deputy Secretary Connor will be joined by Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: RICHMOND, VA – On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Richmond National Battlefield Park Superintendent David Ruth, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward and Civil War Trust President James Lighthizer for a major announcement related to the long-term ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and National Park Service (NPS) Director Jon Jarvis today signed their names to the final National Mall Plan, capping off a planning effort that included input from more than 30,000 Americans in all 50 states, and culminating in a vision and direction for the NPS' future conservation and preservation of what many call “America's Front Yard.”
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today affirmed the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves from the list of threatened and endangered species in the western Great Lakes and the northern Rocky Mountain states of Idaho and Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. Wolves will remain a protected species in Wyoming.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior will invest $1.6 billion in 2021 to address critical deferred maintenance projects and improve transportation and recreation infrastructure in national parks, national wildlife refuges and recreation areas, and at Bureau of Indian Education schools. This unprecedented ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE – In a speech to the Alaska Forum on the Environment today, Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes and Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Policy Heather Zichal outlined a series of new initiatives aimed at bringing the best available science to energy-related ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, OR – As part of President Obama's initiative to make America a magnet for jobs by building a 21st Century infrastructure, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today signed a Declaration of Cooperation with the States of Oregon and Washington to expedite the review and permitting of energy generation, power transmission and other vital infrastructure development in the Pacific Northwest.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, PA – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined former Secretary of State State General Colin Powell, former Pennsylvania Governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and retired General Tommy Franks at the Eighth Annual Commemoration in honor of the heroic passengers of Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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