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This Week at Interior

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100 years ago this week the 19th Amendment
was ratified, giving women the right to vote

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nationwide.

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First Lady Melania Trump hosted the launch
of the Building the Movement Exhibit: America’s

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Youth Celebrate 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White

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House.

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To mark the centennial, buildings and landmarks
across the country, including the Department

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of the Interior Building, the Bunker Hill
Monument in Boston National Historical Park,

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the White House in President’s Park, and
the Old Point Loma Lighthouse in Cabrillo

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National Monument, were all illuminated in
purple and gold, the colors of the women's

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suffrage movement.

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Deputy Secretary Kate MacGregor was on the
road, visiting Interior-managed sites and

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facilities in West Virginia and Maryland.

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She joined Fish and Wildlife Service Director
Aurelia Skipwith for a behind-the-scenes tour

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of the new multi-use facility at Canaan Valley
National Wildlife Refuge in Davis, West Virginia.

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The facility will serve as a visitor center
for the refuge, as well as offices for the

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West Virginia Field Office and the Office
of Law Enforcement.

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She then joined Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement Principal Deputy Director

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Lanny Erdos for a tour of Deckers Creek and
abandoned Mountain State mine sites.

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OSMRE has led an unprecedented effort to address
mine reclamation by developing active treatment

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systems and providing millions in Abandoned
Mine Land Funds.

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These efforts are important to clean up legacy
mine sites and support local economies.

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On the final leg of her travels, the Deputy
Secretary stopped by the Chesapeake & Ohio

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Canal and National Historical Park Visitor
Center in Cumberland, Maryland.

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Once used to move Appalachian coal East, the
C&O Canal now hosts millions of visitors for

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outdoor recreation.

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Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Tara
Sweeney was in Anchorage, Alaska this week,

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to open the Operation Lady Justice Task Force’s
newest office.

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It's the sixth office opened in two months
by the Trump Administration to investigate

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cold cases involving missing and murdered
American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
Dr. Timothy Petty and USGS Director Dr. Jim

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Reilly, on hand this week for the groundbreaking
ceremony of the new Snake River Field Station

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at the USGS Idaho Water Science Center.

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The center will provide long-term cost savings,
and enhance scientific collaboration to address

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Idaho natural resource issues.

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Happy 104th Birthday to the National Park
Service, officially established on August

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16th, 1916.

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For over a century the Service has been telling
the American story through monuments, memorials,

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battlefields, and our iconic national parks.

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Find your park at nps.gov, where you'll also
find updated information, current conditions

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and tips on how to recreate responsibly.

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The Bureau of Reclamation this week joined
its partners at the Army Corps of Engineers

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and the Department of Energy to celebrate
National Hydropower Day.

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The celebration recognizes hydropower’s
contributions to America’s clean energy

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infrastructure, electrical grid resiliency
and environmental protections.

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And our social media video of the week, the
salmon making their way up-river to spawn

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at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska,
and the bears who wait for a free lunch.

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It's not just bears who feast on the tens
of thousands of fish every year...the fish

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have to get past hungry wolves, birds and
other predators, but the survivors end up

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further inland to make their offspring, which
migrate back to the ocean, then eventually

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make their way back up river, in a never-ending
cycle.

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That's This Week, at Interior.