We have a new Next Interior Memo: a letter to the future, to my daughter in 2049 as Interior turns 200 years old. Check it out!
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Here is this week's Next Interior Memos weekly news digest, with some good and not-so-good updates for Interior...plus a big snapping turtle who calls Interior's lands and waters home.
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Earlier today, Next Interior's Executive Director spoke as part of America's Forum for Wildlife, with a focus on science and support for agencies like the Department of the Interior.
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This week's Next Interior Memos news roundup is here:
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New Next Interior Memos - this week's digest - is out!
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Curious about news-y type updates from Next Interior? We have a new page for that:
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Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
This is not good news for the American people, federal agencies, or the rule of law. I'll never understand how these actions--firing people or terminating ("reorganizing") programs--without Congressional action first are not fundamentally unconstitutional...
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Exciting news! Next Interior will be launching a Fellows program next week. We’ll share the full announcement next week, but for now, here’s a quick run-down:
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On Wednesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will have a nomination hearing for the next Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. The nominee was director during the first Trump administration.
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The end of the long weekend is nearing and many folks are getting ready to re-engage. If the fiscal year 2026 federal budget is part of what you're interested in for parks and widlife, science and water, Tribes and more, be sure to check out our brief analysis
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Last week, the Secretary of the US Department of the Interior issued a secretarial order to direct implementation of the EXPLORE Act, which was signed into law on 04 January and will improve recreation on federal lands. Next Interior will take a look soon. Until then:
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Today's the day: the US Fish and Wildlife Service turns 85 today! We'll send these messages to the Service a little later this week - more time to get people's notes of thanks to the agency and the people who make it run. YOU can join us, please do!
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A river with trees along the shoreline and mostly clear skies and a few puffy clouds above. A person is in a packraft on the river with bikes strapped to the front of the packraft.
A young person with a green PFD sitting on the bow of a red packraft in a river with the river stretching out in front, wooded mountains along the edge of the river, and mostly clear skies with a few puffy clouds above.
Interior helped make for a nice weekend, including bikerafting on the Potomac River. Not only did we enjoy National Park Service lands to get out on the river, we saw numerous Bald Eagles, which were recovered from the brink of extinction by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Thanks Interior!
🥳 Between all those calls to your reps, protests, and parades, make time to wish the US Fish and Wildlife Service a happy birthday! 🥳
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is turning 85 on Monday, and we're seeing if we can collect some kudos for the agency and for the public servants who have made it work over the decades. Please add a note! No sign-in required, feel free to use initials / pseudonum
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😳😱Oh dear!
Show your support for the US Fish and Wildlife Service with a quick note on our Kudoboard in celebration of the agency's 85th birthday next week!
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New Next Interior Memos weekly digest dropped! Read here and subscribe if you haven't already:
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Next Interior logo with a brown bison top-left, blue font "Next" top-right, and green font "Interior" across the bottom.
Important update! Next Interior has financial support, kindly provided by The Navigation Fund! Thank you!
The announcement came through LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Fantastic news for Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, the swamp, everything that lives there, for the people who depend on it...everyone!
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The Department of the Interior provides all sorts of homes for pollinators, from national wildlife refuges to national parks to our #PublicLands!
The US government's obligations to Tribes has to include supporting voting rights and acting against voting discrimination...it's how issues like the water contamination at the opening of this article can be addressed.
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Great to see people are giving the response that is needed. Do not erase our history, especially not the hard parts. It's how we learn to do better and be better.
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Sure looks like UT used taxpayer dollars to engage a PR firm on a propaganda push to build public support for seizing our #PublicLands. Sheesh.
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This is a good piece on the so-called "gold standard science" executive order. We'll dive into what the EO means for science at the Department of the Interior soon too:
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Whether you're a current or former employee of the Department of the Interior or from another federal agency, this article on efforts to support feds in their career changes from @govexec.bsky.social may be of interest:
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Going to have to step away for a while, may not make it back before the ending of the hearing, but I'm not expecting that we'll learn anything more of value here.
Rep. Timmons just said that 35k nonprofits depend entirely on federal funds. (Narrator: This is not true. But 35k [2%] do have >50% of their income from federal funds.)
Also, according to Rep. Timmons, many nonprofit leaders earn millions of dollars per year. (Narrator: this is not true.)
Don't want to get too sidetracked even though the hearing is, but pretty interesting to see the subcommittee chair backtrack on backtracking on her vote for the reconciliation bill...
