Interior Newswire News
Cadet Nurse Corps
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2023
News Release: During World War II, more than 100,000 American women served their country as members of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. The program averted a shortage of nurses. Many participants saw it as a chance to serve their country while earning valuable career training.
Rob Jagger’s Campground to host Special Recreation Permitted Event
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2023
News Release: Fort Stanton, N.M. - From Sept. 13-17, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roswell Field Office will host the Back Country Horsemen of New Mexico’s Annual Ride Meeting and trail ride out of the Rob Jagger’s Campground near Fort Stanton, N.M. The ride will be based out of the campground, with members...
Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest Fire Update- September 5
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Port Angeles, Wash. - Today, the Eagle Point Fire showed very quiet, diminished behavior because of more humid conditions and cooler weather. Crews will continue using a confine and contain suppression strategy to keep the fire from moving over the ridge to the north. Smoke is visible from the Hurricane Ridge area.
Old North Church: Audio Tour
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Discover Old North’s secrets and stories with a brand-new audio tour! Available in English or Spanish, the tour weaves together the story of Paul Revere’s famous lantern signal with recent research into the lives of Old North’s free and enslaved Indigenous and Black congregants.
In the Pines with Caroline Kanaskie
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: by Catherine Devine. Caroline Kanaskie hiked up Dorr Mountain with an even gate. It was clear she’d been here before. Her strides were long and purposeful, her speech brimming with excitement as she recalled her last week at Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor, Maine, where she was a recipient of a Second...
Biden-Harris Administration infuses $28 million though Investing in America Agenda for restoration, conservation projects across America
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management today announced $28 million in investments from the Inflation Reduction Act for six large-scale partnerships with national organizations, States, and the Navajo Nation to support restoration and conservation on public lands.
Traditional Knowledge of Changes in Winter Conditions in Alaska’s Copper River Basin
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Ahtna and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve: An Ethnographic Overview and Assessment. Technical report. Copper Center, Alaska: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Rinconada Canyon Stop 13
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Audio Tour Stop #13: The Rio Grande Rift Valley and the Sandia/Manzano Mountains.
McCoy Administration Building
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: The McCoy Administration Building on the campus of Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The property is significant as an example of the historical development of Rust College, the oldest HBCU in Mississippi.
Robert O. Wilder Building
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: The Robert O. Wilder Building, formerly known as the John W. Boddie Building or the Tougaloo Mansion House, on the campus of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The mansion is significant as one of the original buildings of Tougaloo College, a HBCU.
Elk bugling programs offered this fall at Wind Cave National Park
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, SD - Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be leading programs mid-September through early October to listen for the bugle of the Rocky Mountain elk. The elk’s high-pitched whistle heralds the arrival of fall and the elk’s mating season.
DOI-BOR grant application closes on Sept. 30
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
WaterSMART: Large-Scale Water Recycling Projects for Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 grant opened on Sept. 6.
Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Changing Seasonality of River Ice
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Dana R. N. Brown, Research Assistant Professor, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Oakland Main House Dining Room
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: The dining room was the social hub of the house. Prud’homme family meals were taken here, and guests were entertained in this room. Hanging from the ceiling over the dining table is a punkah, sometimes called a “shoo-fly". The punkah was usually operated by an enslaved child and functioned as a fan to...
Pocantico Proclamation, Sustainability, and You
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Friends of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training today published their Pocantico Proclamation on Sustainability and Historic Preservation, which declares: “Historic preservation must play a central role in efforts to make the built environment more sustainable.".
BLM announces winners of the 2023 Rangeland Stewardship and Innovation Awards
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced winners of the 2023 Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovation awards, which recognize exemplary management and outstanding accomplishments in restoring and maintaining the health of public rangelands.
July 17, 1787: The Supreme Law of the Land
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: "I think we shall eventually agree upon and adopt a system that will give strength and harmony to the Union, and render us a great and happy people. This is the wish of every good, and the interest of every wise man.".
Rinconada Canyon Stop 5
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Audio Tour Stop #5: How the petroglyphs were created.
Loockerman Hall
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Loockerman Hall on the campus of Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The property is significant as an example of pre-Revolutionary architecture in Delaware, and later as the first main building for Delaware State University, a land-grant HBCU.
'An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe' Returns
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: James A. Garfield National Historic Site is excited to announce that its popular “An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe" event will return in October. Baltimore-based actor David Keltz, the nation’s foremost Poe presenter, will again take the stage as one of President and Mrs. James A. Garfield’s favorite fiction authors: Edgar Allan Poe. He has appeared as Poe at James A. Garfield National Historic Site since 2010.