Senate confirms Stone-Manning as BLM director
The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Tracy Stone-Manning as director of the Bureau of Land Management in a party-line vote. The senior adviser for ...
Interior
BLM headquarters moving back to D.C.
The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will be moving back to Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced to agency staff last week. ...
Administration nominates NPS director, fills other posts
The Biden Administration has nominated Charles “Chuck” Sams III as the director of the National Park Service. If confirmed, Sams would be the first Native ...
Appropriations process continues as year-end approaches
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a spending package in late July, which contains bills that set funding levels for the U.S. Departments of ...
TWS and AFS support research units in spending bill
As the U.S. House Appropriations Committee considered the appropriations bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, The ...
Biden administration fills key leadership positions
Five months into the Biden U.S. administration, leadership at the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture is falling into place. Deb Haaland, an enrolled member ...
Administration reconsiders BLM relocation
A position statement developed by a group of retirees is the latest development in a growing effort to bring the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management, ...
President’s proposal would increase Interior funding
The U.S. administration has released further details regarding their Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which includes increased funding for many wildlife and conservation ...
President requests increased Agriculture, Interior budget for FY 2022
President Biden is requesting an 8.8% increase in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which would go toward increases in discretionary funding across the board, including ...
Biden administration supports refuge-splitting road in Alaska
The Biden administration is supporting an effort to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In 2019, then-Secretary of the Interior David ...