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Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-09-25

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-09-25

Announcing the inaugural Next Interior Fellows

A girl stands in a desert grassland with mountains in the distance and partly cloudy skies overhead.

Next Interior Memos Weekly Digest, 2025-09-18

A desert grassland under partly cloudy skies.

Interior's Public Lands Rule: Gaslighting us to take away tools for conservation

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-09-11

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-09-11

Trees silhouettes against a night sky witha. few clouds, and two owls visible in the dead top of one of the trees.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-09-04

A woman and a girl sit on a rocky shore looking at waves on the ocean, with rocky hills in the background and partly clear skies above.

Letter to the Future: Interior at 200 years old

A large common snapping turtle on a gravel trail.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-08-28

A large raptor sits on top of a dead tree in front of a cloudy sky.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 21 August 2025

A pink flower with five petals, a few leaves, and a waterway out of focus in the background.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 07 August 2025

Wooden blocks with letters spelling out "integrity".

Integrity matters

View from a rocky outcrop overlooking to merging rivers, with a small down at the junction, and blues skies with a few clouds overhead.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 31 July 2025

The US Capitol dome under mostly cloudy skies.

Public Involvement & Democracy in NEPA

Wind turbines stand on a flat agricultural area with heavy clouds overhead but the sunset/sunrise peeking through on the horizon.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 24 July 2025

Power transmission lines run through a forested, hilly landscape with a swath of trees cleared for the power lines.

We Need a Trust Fund - or Superfund - for AI

AI is everywhere, it is impacting people, society, and nature, and we need to start taking action - for Interior and beyond

A duck with a white forehead, a green head patch, and a brown body with fine barring on the feathers floats in water.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 17 July 2025

Sunrise through a tree on the bank of a river under partly cloudy skies, with a tree-covered mountain across the river.

Next Interior Fellows Program

A cluster of cactus bulbs with bright red flowers.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 10 July 2025

Whitish, red, and green fireworks explode over and reflect in a body of water, with the silhouettes of trees in the distance.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 03 July 2025

A ball of yellow-orange fireworks explodes against a night sky while a more distain "fountain" of fireworks goes off below. The lights are reflected on water in the foreground.

Independence Day, the Four Freedoms, and public servants

A building with a tower extends into the dark blue, pre-dawn sky, with a few tree silhouettes to the left and a crescent moon above.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 27 June 2025

It's been another busy week for Interior and things that matter to its mission and serving the country

An adobe church tower in the center of the photo with clear skies and in dawn's early light behind, and a few trees surrounding.

WGA 2025: Some highlights and thoughts from the Western Governors' Association meeting

A lot of topics relevant to Interior, like public lands, Tribes, AI and energy, and more. Some good, some not-so-good.

Forested landscape with a river in the mid-ground, a few mountains, and mostly cloudy skies with the sun shining through.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 19 June 2025

This week, Next Interior Memos will begin trying out a weekly digest to bring you a high-level view of what happened last week, what’s coming up, and other recaps of interest.

Front of a stone building with four doors visible, and the words "Department of the Interior" inscribed above the doors.

The Values of the Administration

Or, the Fiscal Year 2026 President's budget request for Interior

The U.S. Capitol Building under partly cloudy skies, and with a few people standing in the foreground.

Members Day with House Natural Resources

Each Congress, committees set up a day when members of Congress can raise any issues within the committee's jurisdiction. Today it is House Natural Resources, which plays a huge role in Interior.