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Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-11-13

The shutdown has ended. What comes next?

Black and white photo of the US Capitol Building sticking up behind some trees.

The end of the 2025 shutdown looms

Waves are blown across a desert wetland with rugged mountains in the background and mostly clear skies overhead.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-11-06

The shutdown continues, there was an election, the RIF news evolved, and other news of interest to today and Interior’s future.

Wildflowers bloom in foreground with rugged, rocky mountains in the background.

Boosting opportunities to engage

The US Capitol Building under partly cloudy skies earlier this year.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-10-30

It’s spooky season in many ways

Interior’s Contributions to America

Interior’s Contributions to America

Next Interior is using publicly available data to shed light on where and how the Department of the Interior serves the Nation

Sunrise over a wetland with a few clouds in the sky in the distance, a few trees and power poles on the horizon, and reflection of the sun and clouds in the water.

The next phase of Next Interior

Charting the course for Next Interior, with calls to action

View intod a desert valley from a rocky outcrop under clear skies, with smoke in the distance.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest 2025-10-23

Heavy news week, and a guest author to help explain some of it

A river scene with trees on the banks, mostly clear skies with a few high clouds in the distance and the sun low in the sky. Sundogs, small rainbows in clouds around the sun, are visible.

Sunday Edition - 19 October 2025

A building with a dome (Jefferson Memorial) lit against a dark sky, reflected on water (Tidal Basin).

Next Interior Memos weekly digest 2025-10-16

Sunrise through a mixed forest under a clear blue sky.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-10-09

A person climbs a rocky desert hillside carrying a radio telemetry antenna, which is pointed at a cholla cactus.

Funding US science

The US Capitol Building in winter under partly cloudy skies, with people standing out front.

Next Interior Memos weekly digest, 2025-10-02

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