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Overview of the Department of the Interior

Secretary and Salary: Deb Haaland $221,400

Fiscal year 2022 Budget Request: $17.6 Billion

Staffing: About 70,000 employees

Mission: The U.S. Department of the Interior protects and manages the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage; provides scientific and other information about those resources; and honors its trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and affiliated Island Communities.

Creation: March 3, 1849

Historical Facts:
1849- Thomas Ewing becomes first Secretary of the Interior

1872 Congress establishes Yellowstoneas the first National Park.

1879 Creation of the U.S. Geological Survey.

1916 President Wilson signed legislation creating The National Park Service.

1935 The Bureau of Reclamation completes construction of Hoover Dam.

1980 The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act is enacted adding 47 million acres to the National Park System and 54 acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System.

2001 Gale A. Norton is nominated the first woman to serve as Secretary of ...

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Writing Prompt - Write a story about a secret group or society.

Paris Grimm stepped out of his Rolls Royce Black Badge Cullinan and pulled his sunglasses over his eyes. His personally customized $1,350,000 SUV, his sunglasses, and his suit matched in a perfect shade of jet black. As he stepped toward the nondescript building ahead of him his entourage of four body guards flanked him on both sides. 

As they approached the building they were greeted by a single man also dressed in a black suit. 

“State your business.”

“I am here to see the Master.”

“State the oath.  All of you in unison.”

“Is that necessary?”

“Do you wish to see his eminence? Are you prepared to walk down the dark corridor? If so you must state the oath now or I will ask you to leave.”

Paris Grimm stared at the weasel of a man blocking his admittance and imagined him strapped to a board while his flesh was peeled from his skin. A door man for the Master had no right to issue orders to the most powerful lieutenant in the organization. Especially not today. Today Paris Grimm was going to become the Master. 

Several seconds passed in silence before the weasel spoke again. “I will inform ...

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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”

Lucretia Mott

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