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This Week: Interior leaders visit public lands across America to celebrate National Public Lands Day and President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative; Secretary Haaland travels to South Carolina to highlight Interior’s commitment to help tell a more complete story of America; Interior announces the creation of Indigenous Food Hubs for Bureau of Indian Education-operated schools and Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated detention centers; Interior’s first-ever Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee holds its kick-off meeting; a $20 million investment in an El Paso water facility from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is celebrated; a new report details the strategic actions necessary to reduce the nation’s risk from landslide hazards; a tax credit for rehabilitating historic buildings yields more than 135,000 jobs and $7.7 billion for the economy; a winner emerges in the 2022 Duck Stamp contest; and the colors of autumn paint our social media Picture of the Week!
Interior Leaders Celebrate National Public Lands Day
 Interior leaders visited public lands across America to celebrate National Public Lands Day and highlight President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative, a locally led effort to restore, connect and conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters over the next decade.
South Carolina Visit Highlights Efforts to Tell America’s Story
 Secretary Haaland and National Park Service Director Chuck Sams traveled to South Carolina this week to highlight Interior’s commitment to help tell a more complete story of America. They toured Summerton High School and Scott’s Branch High School, sites that will soon be part of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.
Interior Advances Health and Nutrition Efforts Across Indian Country with Indigenous Food Hubs
 As part of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this week, Interior announced that Indigenous Food Hubs will launch at Bureau of Indian Education-operated schools and Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated detention centers to help source Indigenous foods, enhance culturally based healthy nutrition education and boost training for healthy and culturally appropriate food preparation.
 The Interior Department’s first-ever Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee – or STAC -- held its kick-off meeting this week. The STAC will ensure Tribal leaders have direct and consistent contact and communication with current and future Interior officials.
 Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo was in Texas this week, celebrating a $20 million investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support the construction of an El Paso Water Advanced Water Purification facility.
 The U.S. Geological Survey this week released a new report that details the strategic actions necessary to reduce the nation’s risk from landslide hazards. The new strategy will guide the way people study, coordinate responses to and prepare for landslide hazards across the country.
 The National Park Service this week released its annual report on the economic impact of the federal historic tax credit. NPS says the tax credit program produced an estimated 135,000 jobs last year and added $7.7 billion to the gross domestic product.
 Joseph Hautman of Plymouth, Minnesota, was announced this week as the winner of the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, with his painting of three tundra swans flying over a wetland. Hautman’s acrylic painting will be made into the 2023-2024 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or “Duck Stamp,” which will go on sale in late June 2023.
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