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Building the next U.S. Department of the Interior starts today
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The US Department of the Interior provides parks, wildlife, water, energy, and service to Indian Country, among other services for the Nation. Now, it has a new advocate for what Interior can be in the coming years and decades: Next Interior.
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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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Letter to the Future: Interior at 200 years old
Thinking about the future and what we need to do to secure it for future generations, with a letter to my daughter in 2049.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-08-28
Last post of "summer"
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August 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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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Comment and analysis
America's Forum for Wildlife
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August 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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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News and Updates
Coming soon: Next Interior Fellows Program
08 July 2025 - Next Tuesday, 15 July, we’ll put out a Request For Proposals for projects that will (a) cultivate ideas and capacity that will support a stron...
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July 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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.
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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Supreme Court allows Trump to launch mass layoff and restructuring plans
The justices said they were not ruling on the legality of specific firing plans but simply allowing the administration to launch such efforts while litigation continues.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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Are you passionate and knowledgeable about climate, nature, and the Department of the Interior and the people it serves? | Next Interior (DOI)
Are you passionate and knowledgeable about climate, nature, and the Department of the Interior and the people it serves? Looking for support to develop an idea you have for how to shape the next itera...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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Full Committee Hearing To Consider Pending Nominations
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July 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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The Values of the Administration
Or, the Fiscal Year 2026 President's budget request for Interior
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July 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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SO 3435 - Implementation of the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences Act | U.S. Department of the Interior
SO 3435
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July 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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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Kudoboard for US Fish and Wildlife Service | Kudoboard
Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!
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June 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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!
www.kudoboard.com/boards/pYMF4...
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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!
June 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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!
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🥳 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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Kudoboard for US Fish and Wildlife Service | Kudoboard
Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!
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June 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🥳 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
www.kudoboard.com/boards/pYMF4...
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Kudoboard for US Fish and Wildlife Service | Kudoboard
Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!
www.kudoboard.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
www.kudoboard.com/boards/pYMF4...
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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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Kudoboard for US Fish and Wildlife Service | Kudoboard
Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!
www.kudoboard.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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 Memos weekly digest, 27 June 2025
It's been another busy week for Interior and things that matter to its mission and serving the country
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June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New Next Interior Memos weekly digest dropped! Read here and subscribe if you haven't already:
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Important update! Next Interior has financial support, kindly provided by The Navigation Fund! Thank you!
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The announcement came through LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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/...
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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Historic land deal halts mining project next to Okefenokee Swamp
The move puts an immediate halt to a project that scientists and environmentalists had feared could irreparably damage North America’s largest blackwater swamp.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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!
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It” - Bolts
In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.
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June 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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‘Censorship:’ See the National Park visitor responses after Trump requested help deleting ‘negative’ signage
The administration asked for help erasing language on park displays that failed to emphasize American grandeur, but visitors have not identified any examples.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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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If you love our Nation's #PublicLands, regardless of whether you live in Utah or not, you should be sure to check out this investigative reporting from Jimmy Tobias at Public Domain on the state&#...
If you love our Nation's #PublicLands, regardless of whether you live in Utah or not, you should be sure to check out this investigative reporting from Jimmy Tobias at Public Domain on the state&#...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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June 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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:
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...