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Title: This Week at Interior!
Our weekly recap of events at the U.S. Department of the Interior
This Week at Interior
Group shot Interior staff and youth volunteers

This Week: Interior joined Indigenous youth, Tribal leaders and community partners in New Mexico to launch the Indian Youth Service Corps; Secretary Haaland commemorates the transfer of operations at the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery to the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho; there's $9 million on the way to help restore and protect the sagebrush ecosystem; Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau spotlights Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments to protect ecosystems nationwide; Secretary Haaland announces the members of Interior’s first-ever Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee; Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland travels to Alaska to speak at the National Congress of American Indians conference; Indian Affairs awards $7 million in grants to revitalize at-risk Native languages; the BLM approves the construction of two western solar energy projects; we'll tell you why scientists from USGS and NOAA are going under the sea off the California coast; and it's the signs of summer in our social media Picture of the Week!  

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Interior Launches Indian Youth Service Corps

Adult volunteer teaches a child how to plant a plant

Interior staff joined Indigenous youth, Tribal leaders and community partners in New Mexico to celebrate the launch of the Indian Youth Service Corps. That’s a new partnership-based program that will provide meaningful education, employment and training opportunities to Native youth through conservation projects on public and Indian lands, and Hawaiian homelands.

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Secretary Haaland Commemorates Transfer at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery

Secretary Haaland looks into large outdoor fish tank

In Idaho this week Secretary Haaland joined the Nez Perce Tribe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to commemorate the transfer of fish production at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery to the Tribe. 

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Interior Announces $9 Million to Support Sagebrush Country

A group of pronghorn run across sagebrush steppe

Secretary Haaland this week announced $9 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to support more than 40 projects to restore and conserve strategic areas within the sagebrush ecosystem. 

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Deputy Secretary Talks Infrastructure Investments

Deputy Secretary Beaudreau at outdoor podium, with other standing behind him, trees and hills in the background

Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau wrapped up a western state visit by joining local leaders and the Montana Conservation Corps to spotlight a new $68 million investment through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for local ecosystem restoration partnerships across the country. 

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Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee Members Named

Secretary Haaland greets Tribal members at listening session

Secretary Haaland this week named representatives to Interior’s first-ever Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee. The committee will ensure Tribal leaders have direct and consistent contact and communication with current and future Interior officials. 

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Asst. Secretary Newland Speaks at National Congress of American Indians

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland addresses National Congress of American Indians from behind a podium

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland was in Anchorage, Alaska this week to provide updates on investments in Indian Country during the National Congress of American Indian’s conference. 

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Indian Affairs Awards $7 Million in Living Languages Grants

Two Native women in traditional dress

The Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development this week announced it has awarded $7 million in grants under the Living Languages Grant Program to 45 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and Tribal organizations.

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BLM Approves Two California Solar Energy Projects

A large solar power array

The Bureau of Land Management has issued final approval for the construction of two solar energy projects in California. The Arica and Victory Pass solar projects in eastern Riverside County will support up to 1,000 jobs and generate up to 465 megawatts of power. 

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USGS, NOAA Mounting Escanaba Trough Expedition Off California

Scientists stand next to an underwater robotic probe on the deck of a ship

A team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are exploring the Escanaba Trough. That's a slowly spreading ocean ridge 200 miles off the coast of California.

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Tweet of the Week

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Secretary Deb Haaland  @SecDebHaaland

Nesting season is a critical time for sea turtles at our national parks, seashores, wildlife refuges and public lands. Turtle hatchlings face many dangers in making it safely from the beach to the sea — help them out by following the local rules.

 

Video by National Park Service

 

Sea turtle hatchlings moving toward the ocean

14 June

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Picture of the Week

The sun peeks over a distant range of mountains while flowers bloom in the foreground

Our social media Picture of the Week displays the signs of the season along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The parkway runs 469 miles from Virginia's Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, where the pink and purple of blooming rhododendrons every June herald the arrival of summer. 

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