“The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources” (Wikipedia). The DOI focuses on conservation and use of federal lands and is responsible for preserving nature’s wonders of America. They are also liable for management of programs relating to Native Hawaiians, Alaska Natives, and Native Americans. The Department of the Interior handles territorial affairs and insular areas, which are territories of the U.S. that are not a part of any of the fifty states or the federal district of Washington D.C. The United States Secretary of the Interior, who is a member of the Cabinet of the …show more content…
President, controls the DOI. In 1849 Robert Walker, James Polk’s Secretary of Treasury, noted in his annual report that most federal offices were placed in departments with which they had little to do.
Walker argued that certain bureaus should be brought together in the Department of the Interior. On February 15, 1849, a bill approving the creation of the DOI passed the House of Representatives and spent two weeks in the Senate. The Department of the Interior was founded on March 3, 1849. Many of the concerns the DOI originally dealt with were gradually transferred to other departments. However, wildlife conservation, territorial affairs, Native Hawaiians, Alaska natives, and Native American affairs remain the responsibilities of the Department of the Interior. “As of mid-2004, the Department managed 507 million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of the land in the United States. It manages 476 dams and 348 reservoirs through the Bureau of Reclamation, 408 national parks, monuments, seashore sites, etc. through the National Park Service, and 544 national wildlife refuges through the Fish and Wildlife Service. Energy projects on federally managed lands and offshore areas supply about 28% of the nation's energy production,” …show more content…
(Wikipedia). Since the 1800’s, the government has allowed mining, oil, timber, and other companies to remove these resources from Native American reservation lands. Proceeds from these leases are usually put into a special trust distributed among “federally recognized tribes” (allgov). Native American officials have argued that the government was not properly reporting these leases to tribal governments and in 1996, filed a lawsuit challenging the Indian trust. The Department of the Interior employs seventy thousand people, “including expert scientists and resource-management professionals, in nine technical bureaus” (doi.gov).
The nine bureaus that are part of the DOI are: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, National Park Service, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey. Each one of these bureaus helps to uphold lists of important guidance documents. In addition to the nine bureaus, there are many offices that associate with the Office of Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Policy, management and Budget, Solicitor’s Office, and Office of the Inspector General (doi.gov).
The Interior Department has spent $28.6 billion on contractors this decade, according to USAspending.gov. In addition to contracts, the Department of the Interior gives out millions of dollars in grants to help endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of the main bureaus of the DOI that distributes the grants to state and local governments. In May 2008, they donated more than sixty million dollars to help endangered
wildlife. The Department of the Interior has not been mention much in the news but TheDailyCaller.com says that Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, is refusing to testify on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) toxic mine spill. The Department of the Interior had to release a technical report on the EPA-caused mine spill in August. Three million gallons of wastewater were accidentally released into Colorado’s Animas River.
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...c structures and other objects of historic or scientific interest in federal ownership as national monuments. National parks were established together with National Forest Service throughout U.S. for conservation and recreation purposes. These actions faced opposition from Western settlers and Congress members who had plans of using the land that was set aside but also the Indians who were forced to stop hunting and fishing. However, settlers were happy with 1902 Reclamation Act that put aside funds to irrigate unlivable chunks of land and previously dry.
This group contains the FBI, Energy, the NASA program, National Park Service, and Natural Resources. Once again, these are all very important groups however, there can be changes made to them. These changes don’t necessarily need to happen but there can be some benefits from them. “The NASA program administers NASA, pays for the National Science Foundation, and general science programs at the Department of Energy” (Document E). This allows out country to be one step ahead of other countries at all times.
The little guys make up 3% of the federal budget, which is not very much. Clearly the government is not splitting the budget fairly. According to( Document E) the smallest of this category is the National Park Service. The people on earth are cutting down trees and lots of national parks for their own benefits. We need to take the 10% of the defence budget and add to the National Park Services. All together the National Park Service will have 10,000,000 dollars added to their budget, making a total of 3,010,000,000 that can benefit not only the country but maybe even the
Frist, Programs strategies and gears programs presented from the department. Next, Parks & Facilities Operations and Maintenance embodies and upholds facilities functioned by the department. Moreover, Human Capital Management supervises the departmental staff's human resource necessities, including, employment, dismissal, punishment, training, advertising, complaints, and assessment. In conclusion, Office of the Director gives administrative oversight, key arranging, planning, correspondences, and obtaining for the office. The Office of the Director likewise gives I.T. administrations to alternate divisions, client administration to the general population, affirms licenses for utilization of departmental offices, and arranges associations with philanthropic associations to fabricate and oversee offices and work
The Texas Department of Transportation has, for Fiscal Year 2006, a budget of $7,732,365,130.00.1 This sounds like a substantial sum, seeing as how the previous year’s budget was almost $2 billion dollars less. It is not a substantial sum, however; or, at least, not substantial enough.
While the history is complicated, the job of the Bureau of Land Management Federal agency or BLM is simple. First founded in 1946, with the intent to administer over 245 million surface acre of public land and maintain health, diversity, and productivity of America’s land for
The career cluster, "the government and public and administration," focuses on careers that are unique to government. It protects us from foreign aggression. It mostly protects Americans in countless ways. State and local governments pass laws or ordinances and provide vital services to constituents.
Mesa Verde National Park, established in 1906 by President Roosevelt, is a part of the Colorado Plateau and lies in the Southwestern corner of Colorado. The park covers about eighty-one square miles and the entire Mesa Verde area which contains the park, is about five hundred and twenty square miles. (nationalparkguru.com) The park was established as a “national park” to protect archaeological sites made from the ancestral Anasazi (Puebloan) people who built cliff dwellings within alcoves in the walls of the canyons. The park is the biggest preserved area for archaeological sites in the United States. Mesa Verde has many different geological
Mesa Verde National Park, whose name can be a bit deceiving because the area is a cuesta, not a mesa, was “established in the year 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt in order to preserve the works of man” (“History & Culture”). “The only difference between a cuesta and a mesa is that a cuesta gently dips in one direction” (Service, National Park). “Mesa Verde was once home to the ancestral Puebloans living there for more than 700 years. They flourished here, building elaborate stone communities in the sheltered alcoves of the canyon walls. The park contains over 4,000 known archeological sites including cliff dwellings and the mesa top sites of pit houses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structures” (“Places”). The geology of Mesa Verde is what
When many people hear the world bureaucrat, we associate it with government and imagine a bunch of people at a round table talking, discussing US issues and signing a bunch of paperwork with the public’s demands written on them. What we don’t know is that bureaucrats actually play a larger role in government operations, such as solving minor technical errors, and monitoring how federal candidates raise their money by making sure it is all done fairly, legally, and no embezzling of federal grants.
The department of Homeland Security which was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which grouped together about 22 federal agencies “that covers diverse functions such as civil defense, emergency response, customs, border control, law enforcement, and immigration” under one umbrella (Roth, 2015). Each of these legacy agencies that form DHS brought with them their legacy cultures into their new agency. Some recent research on the problems militating against DHS, to include lack of effective leadership, weak communication, and lack of a common core culture and to some extent a shared organizational identity and assumptions about mission, strategy, and goals” (Ready and resilient workforce for the Department of Homeland Security, 2013).
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is just one of the many agencies operating under the Department of Homeland Security. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s website, FEMA can trace its beginnings to the Congressional Act of 1803, as this Act is generally considered the first piece of disaster legislation which provided assistance to a New Hampshire town following an extensive fire. On April 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order that created the Federal Emergency Management Agency. On March 1, 2003, FEMA became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Fagin (2014) said that FEMA is responsible for implementing the Federal Response Plan to manage and coordinate the federal consequence management response in support of state and local authorities (p. 349).
The second area is the DHS’s Operations. The DHS operations are aimed at coordinating with other security and federal agencies to help streamline the security of the nation. In order for the DHS to be able to secure the entry points of our nation, more than twenty other agencies are included under the DHS’s umbrella. The operation plans of the DHS includes objectives and goals that are needed to prevent the transport illegal goods, illegal immigrants, and other contraband from entering into the United States thru the nation’s entry points.
The Bureaucracy is a slow and seemingly unnecessary addition to our governmental system, but it does have an important role. The Bureaucracy was originally created to aide the president, and consisted of four people (first cabinet). These members were called the Department