Department of the Interior

Secretary Doug Burgum’s order grants that DOGE official oversight over the department's consolidation process, including control over funding, policy and personnel decisions.

The federal wildland firefighting force is currently split between five land management agencies – the Forest Service (under the U.S. Department of Agriculture), the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (under the Department of the Interior).

The Trump administration could potentially redraw the boundaries of national monuments as part of a push to expand energy production. The new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, issued orders to review monuments, and some in our region may be on the list.

The Department of the Interior has purchased a 640-acre parcel of state school trust land from Wyoming.

The Interior Department is spending another $64 million to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells that threaten the environment and public health, including some wells in the Mountain West.

The federal government will move forward with leasing some public land for oil and gas drilling in Wyoming, New Mexico and Kansas as part of a mandate from congressional action.

The Department of Interior’s Derogatory Geographic Names Taskforce has voted to remove a slur from 650 geographic locations around the United States. Sq*** is a word that is a slur for an Indigenous woman.

Over the next year, History Colorado, a nonprofit and an agency under the state’s department of higher education, will investigate the experiences, abuse and deaths of students at the former Fort Lewis Indian School near Durango.

Delegates from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. came together in Washington, D.C., to discuss the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

The Public Media Journalists Association selected the bureau's investigation of deaths at tribal jails as the best nationally edited news coverage for 2021.