The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans,Alaska Natives,Native Hawaiians,territorial affairs,and insular areas of the United States,as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department,with most of the remainder managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The department was created on March 3,1849. It is headquartered at the Main Interior Building,located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington,D.C.
The United States secretary of homeland security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security,the federal department tasked with ensuring public safety in the United States. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet of the United States. The position was created by the Homeland Security Act following the attacks of September 11,2001.
John Henry Kyl was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives,representing Iowa's 4th congressional district from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1973. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States,located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona,near the city of Page. The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell,one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km3). The dam is named for Glen Canyon,a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir;Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell,who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado River's Grand Canyon by boat.
The Bureau of Reclamation,formerly the United States Reclamation Service,is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior,which oversees water resource management,specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion,delivery,and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation,water supply,and attendant hydroelectric power generation. It is currently the U.S.'s largest wholesaler of water,bringing water to more than 31 million people,and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland,which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western U.S.
Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservative free market public interest law firm based in Lakewood,Colorado. Its lawyers argue cases on property rights and federal land management in the American West,as well as gun rights and other constitutional law cases.
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada. Originally called Bullhead Dam,Davis Dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis,who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1923. The United States Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam,which was completed in 1951.
Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles (249 km) downstream of Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation,it is 320 feet (98 m) high,235 feet (72 m) of which are below the riverbed (the deep excavation was necessary in order to reach the bedrock on which the foundation of the dam was built),making it the deepest dam in the world. The portion of the dam above the foundation stands 85 feet (25.9 m) tall,making it the only dam in the world that stands more underground than above ground. The dam's primary functions are to create a reservoir,and to generate hydroelectric power. The reservoir behind the dam is called Lake Havasu and can store 647,000 acre⋅ft (798,000,000 m3;2.11×1011 US gal;1.76×1011 imp gal). The dam straddles the Arizona-California state border at the narrows the river passes through between the Whipple Mountains in San Bernardino County,California and the Buckskin Mountains in La Paz County,Arizona.
The Colorado–Big Thompson Project is a federal water diversion project in Colorado designed to collect West Slope mountain water from the headwaters of the Colorado River and divert it to Colorado's Front Range and plains. In Colorado,approximately 80% of the state's precipitation falls on the West Slope,in the Rocky Mountains,while around 80% of the state's growing population lives along the eastern slope,between the cities of Fort Collins and Pueblo.
John Charles Rood is an American national security adviser and former government official who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from January 2018 to February 2020. Before that,he was Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin where he oversaw international business. He also served as vice president for Domestic Business Development at Lockheed Martin and he was a vice president at the Raytheon Company.
The Animas-La Plata water project is a water project designed to fulfill the water rights settlement of the Ute Mountain and the Southern Ute tribes of the Ute Nation in Colorado,USA.
Susan Combs is an American politician,having served elected office in Texas and served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy,Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior as an appointed official under President Donald J. Trump.
Rosemary Márquez is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
The San Acacia Diversion Dam is a structure built in 1934 for the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) near to San Acacia,New Mexico,United States. It diverts water from the Rio Grande into irrigation canals.
Michael Lee Connor is an American politician,lawyer and engineer. He has served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works since November 2021,and served as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 2014 to 2017,among other positions in United States Department of the Interior.
Harold Warren Furman II,"Hal" is an American businessman and a former U.S. government official. He co-founded and serves as the chairman and managing director of The Furman Group,a water infrastructure consulting firm based in Washington,D.C.
Daniel P. Beard served as the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation,and as the fourth Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives.
David Longly Bernhardt is an American lawyer who served as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Donald Trump. He previously was a shareholder at the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck,where he was an oil and energy industry lobbyist and natural resources attorney. He began working for the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) in 2001,and served as the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009 and deputy secretary from 2017 to 2019.
Tanya Marie Trujillo is an American attorney and political advisor who serves as the Deputy State Engineer and Governor’s water policy adviser for the State of New Mexico. She previously served as the assistant secretary of the United States Department of the Interior for water and science.
M. Camille Calimlim Touton is a Filipino-American water policy advisor who serves as the commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Biden administration.
