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The Federal agencies recognized three new collaborative landscape partnerships across the country where agencies will focus efforts with partners to conserve and restore important lands and waters and make them more resilient to a changing climate. These include the California Headwaters, California’s North-Central Coast and Russian River Watershed, and Crown of the Continent.

Interior's economic report for FY 2014 found that national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments and other public lands managed by Interior hosted an estimated 423 million recreational visits in 2014 – up from 407 million in 2013.

Scientists expect a one-meter rise in sea level to occur in the next 100-150 years. In some select areas of Alaska, relative sea-level is decreasing because as land-based glaciers and ice sheets melt, land mass is actually rising faster than sea-levels.

In recognition of LGBT Pride month, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago has been designated a National Historic Landmark, becoming the nation's second LGBT related property to achieve such recognition.

Today's "Ivory Crush" in New York's Times Square sends a clear message that the United States will not tolerate wildlife crimes that threaten to wipe out the African elephant and a host of other species around the globe.

The Department of the Interior today announced that its Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $6.5 million in grants for more efficient management of California's water as part of the Administration's effort to bring relief to drought-stricken commu

Project locations span from conifer forests, deserts and sagebrush-steppe in the West to the coastal plain of the Southeast. The 10 selected projects will leverage matching funds for treatments that will affect tens of millions of acres of public land.

U.S Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell & U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced above average fire activity projections for the 2015 wildfire season and called for reforms in how the federal government funds wildfire suppression efforts.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data that may have exposed the personal information of current and former Federal employees.