BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: * * * - Strategically placed fuel breaks in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah will help firefighters control wildfires - Note: Please see attached infographic and photo * * * The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Fuel Breaks in the Great Basin. This Final P  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from The Economics Daily: Forty-five metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from December 2018 to December 2019, and 344 were essentially unchanged. The largest statistically significant over-the-year percentage increases in employment occurred in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Wilmington, North Carolina (4.8 percent each), and Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina-No  more

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the publication of the Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Four Rivers Field Office. The plan is designed to guide public land management decisions for almost 800,000 acres of public lands over the next 20 years. The Proposed RMP addresses public l  more

ST. MARIES, Idaho, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Idaho Panhandle National Forests - issued the following news release: The USDA Forest Service is seeking public comment on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Homestead Project located on the St. Joe Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. This public comment period will be open from now for the next 30 days. The EA, maps, supporting documents, scoping comments and other informat  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 13 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Draft Request for Proposals for the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) procurement at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the Fort St. Vrain facility in Colorado. The new ICP contract is anticipated to be an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract  more

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are introducing a new app created to provide ease and flexibility for ranchers participating in the ISDA/BLM Cooperative Photo Monitoring Program. Survey123 is a platform created by Esri, a data analysis software, and is available to download for free on any mobile dev  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news: Across Idaho, high school students and teachers are learning to fight cyberthreats. This year marked the third Cybercore Summer Camp for area high school students and teachers, and the first year that cybersecurity was included in the STEM Summer Camp for younger students at the College of Eastern Idaho (CEI). It was also Idaho's first year as a statewide participant in the natio  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: Jennifer Rabuck, a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) zone fire management officer (FMO) on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Hayward, Wisconsin, has been named as the wildland fire safety specialist for the National Park Service (NPS) Branch of Wildland Fire. Jennifer fills the vacant position left when Chad Fisher became the wildland fire operations program leader in 2017. J  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $358,773 cooperative agreement to the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho for the management of operations for the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. The funding opportunity number is F20AS00051 (CFDA 15.608). For more information, contact Brian Devlin, 208/476-4591, brian_devlin@fws.gov.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award a $850,000 cooperative agreement to the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho for the management of operations at the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. The funding opportunity number is F20AS00053 (CFDA 15.608). For more information, contact Brian Devlin, 208/476-4591, brian_devlin@fws.gov.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: * * * - Projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington selected * * * The Bureau of Reclamation selected 19 projects to receive $3.5 million in WaterSMART Applied Science Grants to develop tools and information that will inform and support water management decisions. These projects will be matched by more than $4.5 m  more

MONTE VISTA, Colorado, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Rio Grande National Forest - issued the following news release: Rio Grande National Forest Supervisor Dan Dallas announced the arrival of Shoshana Cooper who will serve as the Acting Deputy Forest Supervisor. She is filling a four-month temporary assignment in Monte Vista, Colorado behind Tom Malecek who retired in December 2019. Cooper comes to the Rio Grande from the Idaho Panhandle National For  more

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Boise National Forest - issued the following news release: Regional Forester Nora Rasure has selected Tawnya Brummett as the Forest Supervisor for the Boise National Forest. Tawnya has served for the last three years as the Boise National Forest's Deputy Forest Supervisor. She replaces Cecilia Romero Seesholtz who retired December 2019. "We are excited that Tawnya has accepted the position to lead Idaho's  more