Department of the Interior Department of the Interior

Department of the Interior

Department of the Interior The , established in 1849 and employing some 70, 000, manages and conserves most federally owned land - over 500 million acres (One-fifth of the land in the United States). The Secretary of the Interior is typically from a western state since that is where most federally owned land is.

Included within Interior are the following: 1. The Bureau of Reclamation oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to hydro-electric power in western states.

2. The National Park Service oversees 388 National Parks, Seashores, Battlefields, and Monuments such as Yellowstone (the First!), Yosemite, Hot Springs National Park, Gettysburg Battlefield, The Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, etc.

Yellowstone National Park

National Monuments Washington Monument are under the National park Service. You need to be able to recognize for the Test. . . Pictures of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial

3. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages 544 National Wildlife Refuges including the Little River National Wildlife Refuge in Mc. Curtain County.

4. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers public lands, totaling approximately 264 million acres, or 1/8 th of the country.

Also within the Department of the Interior is the Bureau of Indian Affairs 5. The (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior charged with the administration and management of 55. 7 million acres of land held on trust for Native Americans , Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. The BIA carries out its core mission to serve 562 federally recognized tribes through four offices. The Office of Indian Services operates the BIA's general assistance, disaster relief, Indian child welfare, tribal government, Indian Self-Determination, and Indian Reservation Roads Program. The Office of Justice Services directly operates or funds law enforcement, tribal courts, and detention facilities on Federal Indian lands. The Office of Trust Services works with tribes and individual American Indians and Alaska Natives in the management of their trust lands, assets, and resources. The Office of Field Operations oversees 12 regional offices and 83 agencies which carry out the mission of the Bureau at the tribal level.