News from June 2023
National Park Service looking for a Fort Washington Marina operator
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The National Park Service (NPS) is offering a long-term lease opportunity for the Fort Washington Marina at Piscataway Park in Maryland.
Valley Prescribed Burns, Week of June 18, 2023
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
Yosemite Fire has postponed the planned prescribed burn in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.
Blue Ridge Parkway visitors asked to remain bear aware
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The beginning of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s visitor season coincides with the early critical feeding season for bears. As a result, increased visitor traffic on park trails and in park campgrounds at the same time bears are looking for food has led to a series of recent human and bear encounters in several area across the 469-mile park.
National Park Service looking for a Fort Washington Marina operator
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The National Park Service (NPS) is offering a long-term lease opportunity for the Fort Washington Marina at Piscataway Park in Maryland.
Play a Game of Civil War Base Ball at Appomattox Court House NHP
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
oin Appomattox Court House National Historical Park for a day of ‘base ball’ (spelled with two words in the 1860s) at your local National Park on Saturday, July 1st.
BLM to restore water quality, fish habitat along Upper Yukon River
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
Work is part of collaborative and partnership-driven Restoration Landscape strategy
Bureau of Land Management Welcomes Artist In Residence at Riddle Brothers Ranch
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The Riddle Brothers Ranch National Historic District on Steens Mountain is set to welcome its first ever artist-in-residence this summer. Beginning June 20 for about three weeks, artist Normandy Helmer will be on site to bring her interpretations of ranch life to canvas.
Continued above-average precipitation prompts additional increases from Yellowtail Dam into Bighorn River
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
According to Natural Resources Conservation Service data, as of June 19, 2023, the southern Montana and northern Wyoming region received 5.29 inches of rain, which is 193% of the average total of 2.74 inches for the entire month of June.
Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat of Southern Elktoe
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
Southeastern Mussel with Critically Low Numbers in Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin is Proposed for Federal Protection, Critical Habitat
Three peregrine falcons fledge in 2023
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
Three peregrine falcon chicks successfully took their first flights from the cliffs of Maryland Heights at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) this spring.
Vessel grounds at Cape Hatteras National Seashore near north end of Hatteras Village
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2023
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - During the early evening hours of Sunday, June 18, a 28-foot vessel named the Carol-ina grounded on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore near the northeastern entrance to Hatteras Village. There were no reported injuries to the four people who were on board the vessel when it came to shore.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Incidental Take Permit for Multiple Wind Energy Projects
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued an incidental take permit to the Wind Energy Condor Action Team (WECAT) members in Kern County, California.
DOI-BOEM offers new grant application process starting June 20
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2023
PC-23-03B: Facilitating Resilience and Adaptation in Commercial Fisheries in Response to Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Climate Change grant opened on June 20.
Podcast 131: Telling Stories in Museums
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2023
News Release: Podcast 131: Telling Stories in Museums.
Dewey Lake Recreational Trail Grant Meeting
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District is holding a meeting June 25 at 1 p.m. to discuss a recreational trail grant that could support the construction of a recreational trail at Dewey Lake.
MKARNS Nav Notice No. SWL 23-33 MPLD Navigation Pass Closure
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
Due to falling river elevations, the crest gate dam at Montgomery Point Lock and Dam (NM 0.5) is in operation and the navigation pass is closed.
Public meeting scheduled for Holt County, Missouri, and Doniphan County, Kansas, Lower Missouri River Basin spin-off study
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public meeting about the Holt County, Missouri, and Doniphan County, Kansas, spin-off study on Monday, June 26, 2023.
Ranger For A Day
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The park ranger is the face of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at each of its lakes and reservoirs. You see them patrolling the lakes, campgrounds, recreation areas and picnicking sites.
Corps joins local partners, community members to unveil restored bicentennial mural
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined elected leaders, community members and other partners from throughout Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties June 2 to unveil the newly restored bicentennial mural on the Prado Dam spillway in Corona.
Comer Slams FBI Heavily Redacting Unclassified Records Related to Biden Bribery Scheme
By Interior Newswire Report | Jun 20, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after reviewing two unclassified, FBI-generated FD-1023 forms that are related to the June 30, 2020 FD-1023 form that memorializes a confidential human source’s conversations with a foreign national who claimed to have bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden: