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Next Interior Memos

Updating how we engage from Next Interior

Jacob Malcom

• 1 min read
An adult mountain goat looks at the photographer while a young mountain goat looks into the distance. Both are standing on a rock outcrop with a valley in the background.
Did you say something is changing? Mountain goats at Yosemite National Park.l (Photo: NPS)

To: All readers
From: Jacob Malcom, Next Interior
Subject: Next Interior and Next Interior Memos

Next Interior started off publicly here, a Ghost site for newsletters, a month ago. As people began to engage, it quickly became apparent that we need not just the newsletter, but other sources of information and engagement.

Starting now, Next Interior will be using an updated approach to engaging with everyone who supports it and the Department of the Interior:

  • Next Interior's primary home will be https://www.nextinterior.org. That site is a more traditional website with substantial, substantive, and steady information about the Department of the Interior and the emerging organization that is Next Interior. Updates will be slower, but the mission will be the same: build a constituency to advocate for Interior while we support the people of the Department
  • This site, https://memos.nextinterior.org, will be the regularly (and at times, rapidly) updated home of newsletters from Next Interior. As things shape up and more people get engaged, we will begin to provide more regular editions of the newsletter. For example, tomorrow, 14 May 2025, I will be on Capitol Hill to attend the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Natural Resources' "Member Day," providing a near-real-time run-down of the issues that Members of Congress are raising for the Committee. (I hope you'll be able to follow along.)
Sun rising over a large body of water with a few small waves, a sandy beach in the foreground, and clear skies colored from red to deep blue overhead.
A new day dawns. Sunrise over the Gulf on the coast of Florida.

As the Next Interior Exploratory Committee deliberates and makes a variety of recommendations - on inclusion, mission, and business matters - we will likely make more updates. Consider it part of the excitement of growing something new...and thank you for your patience with any hiccups that happen along the way.