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This Week, at Interior

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management this
week is asking for public input on three major

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clean energy projects: an environmental review
of Mayflower Wind’s proposal for a wind

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energy project offshore Massachusetts...a
proposed lease sale for wind energy development

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in the Carolina Long Bay area...and the ongoing
efforts to assess commercial interest in wind

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energy leasing in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Biden-Harris administration is committed
to achieving 30 gigawatts of clean offshore

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wind energy by 2030, creating nearly 80,000
good-paying union jobs while also fighting

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climate change.

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Imperiled wildlife across the nation will
benefit from nearly seven and a half million

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dollars in grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service’s Competitive State Wildlife Grant

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program.

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The program supports projects led by state,
territory and commonwealth fish and wildlife

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agencies, protecting vulnerable wildlife and
their habitats.

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The funds will be used to implement a total
of 21 conservation projects.

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Tracy Stone-Manning was ceremonially sworn-in
by Secretary Haaland this week as the new

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Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

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In celebrating her arrival, Secretary Haaland
said “Tracy brings a wealth of knowledge

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in conservation and environmental policy to
[our] efforts and a history of working with

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diverse communities in service to our public
lands.”

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America's first stewards could be among its
next...Interior this week announced next steps

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in a plan for implementation of the Indian
Youth Service Corps Program.

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The IYSC would provide meaningful education,
employment, and training opportunities to

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Indigenous youth through conservation projects
on public lands, Indian lands, and Hawaiian

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homelands – putting young people on the
path to good paying jobs working to tackle

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the climate crisis.

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U.S. Geological Survey crews were on the job
this week after a so-called "Atmospheric River

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event" brought significant precipitation to
the western United States.

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The California Water Science Center dispatched
crews to measure high flows in Lake, Mendocino,

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and Sonoma Counties.

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In Nevada crews were deployed from the Carson
City Field Office to the Lake Tahoe area.

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The Bureau of Reclamation joined local, state
and federal partners along with the Confederated

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Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation in a
virtual celebration this week, marking the

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completion of the Schaake Habitat Improvement
Project in the Yakima Basin.

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The project restored natural processes and
opened about 130 acres of floodplain along

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a two-mile reach of the Yakima River south
of Ellensburg, Washington.

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The Fish and Wildlife Service and the USGS
joined state partners this week to remove

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invasive carp from the Mississippi River near
La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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The removal effort, led by the Minnesota Department
of Natural Resources, featured an innovative

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method developed by USGS which uses herding
and netting techniques to drive the fish from

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larger to smaller areas to be captured.

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It's Bat Week 2021, our annual celebration
of the role of bats in nature and all that

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these amazing creatures do for us.

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Just like birds and butterflies, bats are
great pollinators, but where they really excel

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is pest control...our unsung heroes of the
night can eat their body weight or more in

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insects, thus protecting our crops.

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And our social media Picture of the Week,
a misty mountain trail at Virginia's Shenandoah

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National Park.

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October is a busy time of year here, with
people from across the country flocking to

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marvel at autumn beauty that borders on the
magical.

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Stretching for a hundred miles along the Blue
Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah is filled with

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trails and overlooks where anyone can settle
down and find a peaceful moment, to take it

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all in.

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That’s This Week, at Interior.