Department Of Interior Regions

Each region is represented by a subsistence regional advisory council.

Department of interior regions. The following list of regional offices describes in general terms the areas served by the eight regions although there are many areas of overlapping responsibility due to variations in the client representative bureaus regional boundaries. Courtesy department of the interior. Regions the federal subsistence management program divides alaska into 10 subsistence resource region.

A map from interior secretary ryan zinke s office shows that interior agencies would report to 13 regions based on natural watersheds instead of state boundaries. Department of the interior protects america s natural resources and heritage honors our cultures and tribal communities and supplies the energy to power our future. The united states department of the interior is a federal executive department of the u s.

The reorganization of doi from 49 regions across 8 bureaus to 12 unified interior regions is complete. In addition a 44. In recognition of urban national wildlife refuge day the trump administration announced that both minnesota valley national wildlife refuge and detroit river international wildlife refuge have been awarded 1 million in additional funding to bolster their urban refuge programs.

Follow us to learn about opportunities to participate in our efforts and how we engage. It is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources and the administration of programs relating to native americans alaska natives native hawaiians territorial affairs and insular areas of the united states. Please click on a region on the map to access information or select a region from the drop down.

Interior submitted its reorganization proposal in september 2017 a component of which was to establish 12 regions for agency operations according to the department website. Bureaus have amended their department manual chapters to officially align their regional office boundaries with the interior region boundaries.