Interior Spokeswoman Says Secretary Salazar to visit Nevada at Invitation of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid

With extreme wildfire activity exhausting all available federal firefighting resources and the national wildfire system operating at its highest level of readiness, the Department of the Interior has finalized two categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act to expedite Bureau of Land Management timber salvage and forest thinning projects.

This week, the Bureau of Land Management set records for the bureau’s highest parcel bid at $4,168,725 and highest per-acre bid at $1,207 and was the second largest lease sale in total dollars in the Bureau’s history.

Department of the Interior law enforcement officers, in collaboration with local, state, and federal partners, have successfully disrupted a major narcotics operation in California. This joint, multi-day operation resulted in the seizure of significant quantities of fentanyl and cocaine, marking a major milestone in ongoing collaborative efforts to combat drug trafficking on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.