United States Department of the Interior
Department of the US federal government
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| 2025 | Hundreds of employees were fired during the United States federal mass layoffs. |
| February 1 2025 | Doug Burgum was sworn in as the current Secretary of the Interior, assuming leadership of the department. |
| June 2024 | The final volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative report was released, revealing 973 children died in these schools and calling for accountability and support for Native American communities. |
| 2023 | By this year, the National Fish Passage Program had worked with over 2,000 local partners to remove or bypass 3,400 aquatic barriers, significantly improving upstream habitat connectivity for aquatic species. |
| May 2022 | The first report of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative was released, detailing the investigation's initial findings. |
| June 2021 | The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative was launched to investigate federal Indian boarding school policies and their intergenerational impacts. |
| March 16 2021 | Deb Haaland became the first American Indian to lead an executive department when she took the oath of office as Secretary of the Interior, also becoming the third woman to lead the department. |
| 2018 | The Department of the Interior (DOI) restructured its organizational regions, reducing the number from 49 regions across 8 agencies to 12 comprehensive organizational regions to improve departmental coordination and efficiency. |
| 2017 | Actor Jeremy Renner portrayed a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service predator control specialist in the film 'Wind River', highlighting the agency's wildlife management role in popular media. |
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