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This publication focuses on the thought processes and considerations surrounding a risk management process for decision making on wildfires. The publication introduces a six element risk management...

Wildfire! It's been the subject of legends; the source and sustenance of many of America's forests, shrub lands, grasslands, and other wildlands; and a central theme in forest management in the...

El Volumen I y el Volumen II del Protocolo de evaluaci?n de disturbios en suelos forestales (PEDSF) provee informaci?n para una amplia gama de usuarios, entre ellos: t?cnicos, propi-etarios de...

This synthesis provides information related to the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership (SNAP) Science and Research Strategy Goal 1 - to restore, sustain and enhance southern Nevada's eco-systems - and...

This annotated bibliography documents the research that has been conducted on the Great Basin Experimental Range (GBER, also known as the Utah Experiment Station, Great Basin Station, the Great Basin...

Entries qualify for inclusion if they were conducted in whole or part at the Desert Experimental Range (DER, also known as the Desert Range Experiment Station) or were based on DER research in whole...

Wildland fires often cause extreme changes in the landscape that drastically influence surface runoff and soil erosion, which can impact forest resources, aquatic habitats, water supplies, public...

Rangelands are lands dominated by grasses, forbs, and shrubs and are managed as a natural ecosystem. Although these lands comprise approximately 40 percent of the landmass of the continental United...

The Virgin Islands Lottery (Lottery) was created by statute in 1937 and established as an independent instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands in 1971. Lottery operations are managed...

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is a self-governing Commonwealth of the United States located about 3,300 miles west of Hawaii. CNMI consists of 14 islands, with a total land...

The objective of our evaluation was to determine whether Pohnpei State's property accountability process safeguarded supplies and equipment to minimize the risk of fraud, waste, and mismanagement. We...

The Virgin Islands are an unincorporated territory of the United States, located about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. The U.S. Department of the Interior assumed responsibility for...

The Department of the Interior could not consistently demonstrate that it received full value for money spend on substantiate the receipt of timely and qualify deliverables on contracts with...

This report presents the results of the second and last two audits relating to hurricane recovery efforts at Department of the Interior's bureaus. During this second audit, the Office of the...

The insular areas are unable to provide compre-hensive health care services to their citizens, and as a result, critically ill patients are boarding planes and crossing thousands of miles of ocean...

In 1999, the Virgin Islands Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation was created as a public entity of the Government of the Virgin Islands (GVI) to manage health care delivery in...

Audit work included claims totaling approximately $44 million on the 128 grants that were open during SFYs 2006 and 2007 (see Appendix 1). We report only on those conditions that existed during this...

Department officials asked the OIG to evaluate the progress made by projects designated Results Not Demonstrated by the Office of Management and Budget. OMB uses the Program Assessment Rating Tool to...

Department of the Interior Officials asked the Office of the Inspector General to review the progress made by programs designed Results Not Demonstrated by the Office of Management and Budget. OMB...

The Department of the Interior is failing to fulfill its stewardship responsibilities over museum collections second in size only to the Smithsonian Institution. The Department manages collections...

A number of infamous school tragedies, such as Columbine High School and Virginia Tech have front page news. While there have been no similar acts of violence at Bureau of Indian Education Indian...

This document highlights the programs of the Department of the Interior and its 2014 President's budget request. The DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW section summarizes budgetary resource requirements at the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is proud to present our Organizational Assessment report for fiscal year (FY) 2014. We provide independent oversight and...

This document highlights the programs of the Department of the Interior and its 2015 President's budget request. The DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS section summarizes budgetary resource requirements at the...

In September 2003, a confidential source (CS-1) alleged that the Collier Resources Company (CRC) took advantage of the politically charged situation surrounding drilling in the Florida Everglades and...

OST was created within the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) by the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-412) to improve the accountability and management of...

On December 9, 2003, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) was notified of the December 6, 2003 death of 16-year-old Cindy Gilbert, a female student at the Chemawa Indian School (CIS) in Salem,...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sells mineral materials under the authority of the Materials Act of 1947, as amended.1 These mineral materials consist of common types of sand and gravel, stone,...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cadastral Survey program has been missing the opportunity to identify and perform surveys on high risk lands where significant potential revenues could be...

The U.S. Department of the Interior and its bureaus manage more than 125,000 rights-of-way on public and Indian lands, mostly in the American West, for purposes ranging from transmission of data and...