U.S. Department of the Interior

A department in the United States charged with overseeing national parks and most other land owned by the federal government. It is also responsible for conserving wildlife and managing U.S. relations with Native Americans. It was established in 1849.

Department of the Interior (DOI)

A department of the federal government, established in 1849 to take charge of the country's internal affairs.Lightheartedly referred to as the “department of everything else” at one time, it was originally responsible for all affairs not handled by the Department of Foreign Affairs (now the State Department), Treasury Department, and War (now Defense) Department. Today, it is responsible for Indian affairs, national parks, wildlife management, and surface mining, to name a few areas. More information is available at its Web site, www.doi.gov, which includes Webcams for several national parks and the city of Washington,D.C.

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All this time there was the anxiety as to what disposition the Department of the Interior would make of the odd-numbered sections.

The squatters

Before the Department of the Interior began collecting Indian trust documents from across the nation and working to reconcile accounts, we did not know if - or to what extent - allegations that the Indian trust might have been mishandled were credible.

Indian trust difficulties overstated

Department of the Interior as Research & Development Progress Report No.

Power and water

A spokesman for the Department of the Interior stuck to the administration's script of claiming tax dollars were being granted for secular reasons, not to advance religion.

Mission impossible: U.S. Constitution does not allow government to give 'faith-based' funding to catholic churches in California, says Americans United lawsuit

* The Department of the Interior employed 528 of the officers who were assaulted, and 109 of these officers were injured.

Federal law enforcement officers killed and assaulted

Last July, the Department of the Interior joined with Energy and Agriculture to sign a memorandum of understanding on "Woody Biomass Utilization" that establishes consistent policies and procedures to support burning wood for power.

Energizing wood power: replacing fossil fuels in a "clean energy" economy

At the Department of the Interior, advocates of industry are calling the shots.

Mad cow is the symptom

Kampf, Anteon President and CEO, stated, "We are extremely pleased to be awarded this contract from the Department of the Interior. Anteon has consistently demonstrated its capability to maximize use of government-wide acquisition contracts and this new contract further strengthens our ability to provide comprehensive solutions and services to clients worldwide."

Anteon awarded IT services contract by the Department of the Interior

For more than a century, the Department of the Interior has held the purse strings to money belonging to some of the nation's poorest citizens.

Racefile

On April 1, 2002, NIST's Computer Security Expert Assist Team (CSEAT) delivered the CSEAT Indian Trust Management (ITM) draft high-risk program review report to the Associate Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. ITM is responsible for billions of dollars of Indian trust assets and has been a very troubled program for decades; OMB identified ITM as a high-risk program.

NIST reviews security of Indian Trust Management, department of the interior. (General Developments)

Moving into the field, Hutch Brown and Russ Linden share a case study on how the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management are working together to improve customer service.

Collaborative government. (The Manager's Musings)