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The Interior Department Radio News/Podcast Service features stories and event actualities about land, water, and resources for download to your newscasts or just informative listening to find out what's happening in the BLM, FWS, NPS, USGS, BOR, MMS, OSM and the BIA. This is a free service of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Feedback on usage is welcome at Interior_News@ios.doi.gov

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07/30/09
Transcript	The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has identified drought-relief projects in California that will share in $40 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The projects will primarily help to preserve permanent crops and associated jobs in an area that is experiencing a prolonged drought, economic hardship and some of the highest unemployment rates in the United States. Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes is leading federal efforts in California and speaks in this Podcast about California’s water crisis.
07/06/09
Transcript	The U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Business Center Aviation Management Directorate and the U.S. Forest Service recently teamed up with NASA to bring a new science based approach to choosing a new class of aerial firefighting aircraft called the VLAT for very large air tanker, which should be in use later this year.
06/26/09
Transcript	Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk was administered the oath of office by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today. The former Idaho state Attorney General and Brigham Young law professor is the department's eleventh individual to hold the position. Echo Hawk is an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
06/08/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was joined by Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett on the National Mall today where he signed a Secretarial Order establishing an Office of Youth in Natural Resources at the Department of the Interior. The Office of Youth in Natural Resources will coordinate present and future youth initiatives, the signature program of which will be a 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps, modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps that provided 3 million men with jobs in the 1930s. By comparison, the 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps will include women as well as men and strive for greater diversity.
06/04/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar kicked off the first of 12 public workshops that will provide information and answer questions about the Final Framework for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf. This program was published in the Federal Register on April 29, 2009. This podcast features the Secretary's opening remarks.
06/01/09
Transcript	The Department of the Interior recently announced it will invest $15 million to reduce hazardous fuels on public lands as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. A rigorous merit-based process was used to identify projects that would accomplish mission needs while creating jobs and making use of biomass for wood products and power generation. This podcast features an interview with Kirk Rowdabaugh, the Director of the Office of Wildland Fire Coordination.
05/30/09
Transcript	On Saturday, May 30, the Lincoln Memorial was rededicated in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial year. The memorial was first dedicated in 1922. Secretary Salazar delivered the closing remarks of the dedication ceremony.
05/27/09
Transcript	The U.S. Department of the Interior's performance and accountability report has been recognized by the Association of Government Accountants with the Certificate of Excellence in Accountability. In 2008 the department kept track of more than $20 billion. Dan Fletcher, the Interior Department's Director of Financial Management explains that while transparency may seem like a new buzzword, it has always played a role in Interior's accounting.
05/08/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today in a press teleconference that he will retain a special rule issued in December for protecting the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, but will closely monitor the implementation of the rule to determine if additional measures are necessary to conserve and recover the polar bear and its habitat. This is audio of his opening remarks at today's teleconference.
04/28/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shared the accomplishments of the Department of the Interior's first 100 days under the Obama Administration in an all employee meeting. He spoke of progress made on all agenda items, the impact of investments Interior is making under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, and he announced the new Office of Youth, a department-wide effort to educate, engage and employ youth.
04/27/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar held a press conference today to announce that he is directing the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a pleading with the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. requesting that the mountaintop coal mining "stream buffer zone rule" issued by the Bush Administration be vacated because it is legally defective. This is audio of his opening statement at today's announcement.
04/22/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced in a rooftop press conference Wednesday an investment of $750 million in the national park system under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, part of more than $3 billion the Interior Department is investing in the nation's economy under President Obama's recovery plan. In this podcast he is introduced by Dan Wenk, the acting Director of the National Park Service.
04/22/09
Transcript	Secretary Salazar welcomes Earth Day 2009 and discusses the Department of the Interior's plans for a new energy frontier with forward-looking policies that help us protect our environment while powering a clean energy economy that will create millions of new jobs right here in America.
04/20/09
Transcript	Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar was joined by Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva to welcome a new exhibit at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington D.C. Monday, April 20. "Parks in Focus: Connecting Underserved Youth to Nature through Photography" is a program from the Morris K. Udall Foundation and Boys and Girls Club of America that introduces middle school students to the wonders nature by giving them cameras and sponsoring field trips to state and national parks. Find out more about the museum and the exhibit at http://www.doi.gov/interiormuseum.
03/30/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined President Obama as he signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 at the White House on Monday. Among its many provisions, it makes official the National Landscape Conservation System.
03/26/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at a ceremony Thursday where Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd thanked U.S. wildland firefighters for their assistance during recent devastating fires in the State of Victoria, Australia.
03/26/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined with the National Park Service, the District of Columbia and a number of partners to mark the beginning of the 2009 National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrating the planting of the cherry trees in 1912 as a gift of friendship from Japan. The Festival runs from March 28 through April 12.
03/23/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey briefed reporters on the latest conditions at Mount Redoubt Volcano. The volcano erupted explosively on Sunday March 22.
03/19/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined representatives from bird research and conservation organizations at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Thursday to release the first ever comprehensive report on bird populations in the United States. The report, The U.S. State of Birds, was developed by a partnership among the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies and non-governmental organizations. The full report can be viewed at http://www.stateofthebirds.org.
03/06/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar held a "Pen and Pad" press conference in Washington D.C. Friday to announce that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will remove the gray wolf from the list of threatened and endangered species in the western Great Lakes, the northern Rocky Mountain states of Idaho and Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. The gray wolf was originally listed in 1974.
03/03/09
Transcript	President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar marked the 160^th Anniversary of the Department of the Interior today in a ceremony at the Yates Auditorium in the Main Interior Building. In addition to the 600 employees who packed the auditorium to watch the event, Department employees around the nation watched via satellite broadcast or listened via teleconference bridge. The Department was established on March 3, 1849.
02/25/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Department of the Interior will offer a second round of research, development, and demonstration leases for oil shale in Colorado and Utah and withdraw the previous administration's proposal for expanded RD&D leases offered during the last week of the Bush administration.
02/23/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar participated in an historic roundtable of top leaders today at a summit examining how development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in conjunction with a "National Clean Energy Smart Grid" is an economic, environmental and national security imperative. Secretary Salazar was joined by former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens at the event.
02/20/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar held a media roundtable at the Department of the Interior in Washington D.C. to discuss how the department will swiftly and responsibly implement President Obama's economic recovery plan to help create jobs, generate economic activity in local communities, and renew our national parks, national wildlife refuges and other public lands and resources.
02/18/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar participated in a conference call on Wednesday, February 18 to discuss the summit agenda for an upcoming forum in Washington D.C. entitled "National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy." Also on the call with the Interior Secretary were; Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Energy Executive T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta. In this Podcast, Secretary Salazar describes the role of the Interior Department in America's energy security.
02/12/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senator Richard Durbin today commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln at a ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial beginning a day of Lincoln bicentennial celebrations across the country in honor of our 16th president. Here are remarks of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
02/11/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined leaders of the Ford's Theater Society, the National Park Service and the District of Columbia at a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday, Feb. 11 to re-open Ford's Theatre and initiate the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln. Ford's Theatre Society, in partnership with the National Park Service, is reopening the doors of Ford's Theatre after an 18-month renovation.
02/09/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and hundreds of employees welcomed the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama to the Department of the Interior on Monday, February 9. These are her remarks.
02/04/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Land Management would withdraw leases that were offered on 77 parcels of U.S. public land near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon. This Podcast features Secretary Salazar's opening remarks in a teleconference he held with journalists on the decision.
01/22/09
Transcript	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar addressed Department of the Interior employees around the nation Thursday morning via satellite from the historic Sidney R. Yates theatre . The 50th Interior Secretary discussed his thoughts on assuming his new position and his plans for future initiatives.

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