News from September 2023
Reclamation announces public meeting regarding the 2021 Reinitiation of Consultation on the Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: PUBLIC NOTICE. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a quarterly public meeting on Sept. 12, 2023, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 pm to provide an update on the development of the Biological Assessment and Environmental Impact Statement for the 2021 Reinitiation of Consultation on the...
Rinconada Canyon Stop 3
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: (0.42 miles /.67 km - A high point overlooking alluvial fans to the south and cones to the west).
68-year-old man dies in water-related incident off southern Hatteras Island
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - A 68-year-old man from Hillsboro, Ohio died this morning in a water-related incident off southern Hatteras Island at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore).
'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.
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.
Rinconada Canyon Stop 5
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2023
News Release: Audio Tour Stop #5: How the petroglyphs were created.
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.".
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.
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.".
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.