U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) "protects America’s natural resources and heritage, honors our cultures and tribal communities, and supplies the energy to power our future". Measured in economic terms, the Department’s programs support approximately $370 billion in economic activity each year and 1.4 million jobs. The DOI manages the Nation’s public lands and minerals, including providing access to public lands and the Outer Continental Shelf for renewable and conventional energy; is the steward of 20 percent of the Nation’s lands including national parks, national wildlife refuges, and the public lands; is the largest supplier and manager of water in the 17 western states and a supplier of hydropower energy; and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and Alaska Natives. DOI's charter is to be responsible for migratory wildlife conservation; historic preservation; endangered species conservation; surface-mined lands protection and restoration; mapping, geological, hydrological, and biological science for the Nation; and financial and technical assistance for the insular areas.
The National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Office of Surface Mining, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, and the Office of Insular Affairs are public agencies administered by the DOI.
In 2009, the DOI launched a strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on U.S. land, water, wildlife, cultural-heritage and tribal resources. The strategy is designed for the bureaus to coordinate climate-change science and resource-management strategies, utilizing a Climate Change Response Council, eight DOI Regional Climate Science Centers (CSCs), and a network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives(LCCs).
The Climate Change Response Council will coordinate the response to the impacts of climate change, and improve the sharing and communication of climate-change impact science, within and among DOI bureaus. The Climate Science Centers - serving Alaska, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Southwest, the Midwest, the West, Northwest, and Pacific regions - will synthesize existing climate-change-impact data and management strategies, help resource managers put them into action on the ground, and engage the public through education initiatives.
CSCs will deliver basic climate-change-impact science to Landscape Conservation Cooperatives within their respective regions, including physical and biological research, ecological forecasting, and multi-scale modeling. The LCCs interconnect DOI and other federal agencies, local and state partners, and the public to build practical, landscape-level strategies for managing climate-change impacts within the eight regions. LCCs will focus on impacts that typically extend beyond the borders of any single National Wildlife Refuge, Bureau of Land Management unit, or National Park such as wildfire risk, drought, invasive species, or the effects of climate change on wildlife migration patterns.
Phone: (202) 208-3100
Sectors:
Related Organizations:
- Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
- North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Upper Midwest & Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Department of the Interior (DOI): South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Northern Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior(DOI): Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative(LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Eastern Tallgrass Prairie & Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative(LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Northwest Interior Forest Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Aleutian & Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Western States Federal Agency Support Team (WestFAST)
- National Park Service (NPS)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Bureau of Reclamation
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
- U.S. Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information, Subcommittee on Ground Water
- Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center
Related Resources:
- State of the Birds 2011- Report on Public Lands and Waters
- State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change
- Federal Action to Support State, Local and Tribal Leaders as They Prepare Communities for the Impacts of Climate Change
- Interim Federal Action Plan for the California Bay-Delta
- Executive Order 13508 - Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
- EPA Green Infrastructure Collaborative
- Priority Agenda: Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America's Natural Resources
- St. Bernard Parish Coastal Zone Management Program
- Clean Water: Foundation of Healthy Communities and a Healthy Environment
- National Drought Resilience Partnership
- Midwest Climate Hub
- An Integrated DOI Plan for Addressing the Effects of Climate Change on Natural Systems
- An Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Options Relevant to Legal and Policy Issues at the Department of the Interior (DOI)
- An Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Options Relevant to the Department of the Interior's (DOI's) Managed Lands and Waters
- DOI Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science
- U.S. DOI Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Competitive Grant Program
- SECURE Water Act Section 9503-Reclamation Climate Change and Water 2011
- Rigorously Valuing the Role of U.S. Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction
- DOI Secretarial Order 3226, Amendment No. 1 (Jan 2009)
- U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Climate Change Adaptation Plan
- Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program (U.S. DOI)
- Secretarial Order 3291: Delegation of Authority to Implement the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, New Mexico
- Recommendations for assessing the effects of the DOI Hurricane Sandy Mitigation and Resilience Program on ecological system and infrastructure resilience in the Northeast coastal region
- DOI Secretarial Order No. 3343 - Drought and Climate Change, California's Water Supply
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