Environmental Initiatives

Photos of groups involved in environmental activities, including park improvements and projects. The overall atmosphere is collaborative and active.

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. Transportation head Dan Tangherlini, Secretary Gale Norton,D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, National Park Service Director Fran Mainella

Yosemite National Park, California, visited by Secretary Gale Norton for tours, discussions with National Park Service staff, and speeches promoting Yosemite infrastructure improvement project plans and highlighting Earth Day themes

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. Transportation head Dan Tangherlini, Secretary Gale Norton,D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, National Park Service Director Fran Mainella

Secretary Gale Norton, left, and Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne among the dignitaries on hand for the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, Montana, and for related tours of the area, including visit to the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, managed in part by the University of Montana

Activities at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Celebrating the Great Outdoors fundraising event, co-hosted by ESPN Outdoors, on New York City's Randall's Island

Yosemite National Park, California, visited by Secretary Gale Norton for tours, discussions with National Park Service staff, and speeches promoting Yosemite infrastructure improvement project plans and highlighting Earth Day themes

Yosemite National Park, California, visited by Secretary Gale Norton for tours, discussions with National Park Service staff, and speeches promoting Yosemite infrastructure improvement project plans and highlighting Earth Day themes

Activities at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Celebrating the Great Outdoors fundraising event, co-hosted by ESPN Outdoors, on New York City's Randall's Island

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to Nisqually Tribe wetlands restoration site and Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Olympia, Washington, to mark 20 years of federal-local cooperative conservation of the Nisqually River Watershed

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to Stockton, California for Take Pride in America school grounds beautification event at Cleveland Elementary School

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. Transportation head Dan Tangherlini, Secretary Gale Norton,D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, National Park Service Director Fran Mainella

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Yosemite National Park, California, visited by Secretary Gale Norton for tours, discussions with National Park Service staff, and speeches promoting Yosemite infrastructure improvement project plans and highlighting Earth Day themes

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to the Nisqually Tribe wetlands restoration site and Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Olympia, Washington, for tours and discussions marking 20 years of federal, state, local cooperative conservation work

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company plant in Seeley Lake

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Events at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California, marking federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance, with appearances by President George Bush, at podium, and Secretary Gale Norton, to his right

National Park Service Director Fran Mainella, Secretary Gale Norton, and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Superintendent Woody Smeck, left to right, during Secretary's visit to the Recreation Area in Thousand Oaks, California. Visit highlighted the federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Research and Development - People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3)_EPA at 40 , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stops at sites in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest and the Lolo National Forest

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. official Dan Tangherlini, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, Secretary Gale Norton, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection's Christine Todd Whitman, Park Service's Fran Mainella, activist Wanda Carter

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company plant in Seeley Lake

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Yosemite National Park, California, visited by Secretary Gale Norton for tours, discussions with National Park Service staff, and speeches promoting Yosemite infrastructure improvement project plans and highlighting Earth Day themes

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company plant in Seeley Lake

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Saipan Island, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to the Nisqually Tribe wetlands restoration site and Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Olympia, Washington, for tours, discussions, and ceremonies marking 20 years of federal, state, local cooperative conservation work

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

President George Bush, left, with Ralph Waycott, volunteer coordinator for the Rancho Sierra Vista Nursery, during Presidential visit to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California. Visit highlighted the federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

President George Bush, left, with Ralph Waycott, volunteer coordinator for the Rancho Sierra Vista Nursery, during Presidential visit to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California. Visit highlighted the federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance

Event, with Secretary Gale Norton, former and current National Football League stars, and volunteers from the non-profit organization KaBOOM!, Take Pride in America, and The Home Depot, featuring single-day construction of football-themed Playground of Hope in southeast Washington, D.C.

No Slide or Print Available. Descriptive Note: ELECTRONIC IMAGE ONLY!. Subjects: Electronic; Visitors; Public access; Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. . 1998 - 2011.

Man and woman activists covering hole by planting small tree in the woods, contributing to the reforestation and conservation project. People doing voluntary work to save the planet.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for touring of the Estate Grange Alexander Hamilton Boyhood Home, the Juan F. Luis Hospital, and other natural and developed sites, as well as discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials. Secretary Kempthorne joined Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh, Jr., Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christian Christiansen, and other leaders at a press conference and agreement signing event concerning grant awards for the benefit of the people and natural resources of the Virgin Islands.

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to Louisiana to tour Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge near New Orleans, and to discuss wetlands preservation and shoreline erosion control efforts with Fish and Wildlife Service staff and other officials

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator - Portland and Seattle , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary Gale Norton receiving briefing during tour of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northern Oklahoma. Preserve is managed by the Nature Conservancy, with mineral rights controlled by the Osage Nation. Photograph was selected for use in Department of Interior video on Norton tenure

A member of Team Wright-Patt participate in an Earth Day event hosted by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base the City of Fairborn and the Beavercreek Wetlands Association at the Community Park in, Fairborn, Ohio, April 22, 2022. During the event volunteers picked up trash and debris in order to clean up the park.

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stops at sites in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest and the Lolo National Forest

National Park Service Director Fran Mainella, left, with Park Service volunteer Melvin Caradine during visit to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California. Visit highlighted the federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance

Austrian forest ecotypes creating a climate zone. Milan Expo 2015, Austrian Pavilion, Milan, Italy. Architect: team.breathe.austria, 2015.

USA, CA, Pismo Beach. Educational programs provided by volunteers at Pismo Beach Monarch Groves- migratory wintering spot

A person walking on a concrete path while pushing a wheelbarrow filled with garden clippings, Florida, USA

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, for a speech on exploration of alternative energy sources, and for a tour of the aquarium and the Scripps Institution environs

Office of Multimedia Operations and Services - Greenscene Botanic Gardens Time Lapse , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Yosemite National Park, California, for touring, participation in ceremonies marking the completion of renovations to the historic Tunnel View Overlook. Joining Secretary Kempthorne at the celebration of the Tunnel View Overlook Rehabilitation Project, funded by the National Park Service and the nonprofit Yosemite Fund, were Yosemite Superintendent Mike Tollefson, National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director Jonathan Jarvis, Yosemite Fund President Bob Hansen, and other National Park Service, Yosemite Fund, local and tribal government representatives.

Office of the Administrator - Santa Barbara , Environmental Protection Agency

Hurricane Wilma - Command Center Files - 26-HK-439-33. keyweston furniture. Hurricane Katrina

Self-sufficient community in Central Brittany. Plelauff, July 2020.Communaute autosuffisante en Centre Bretagne. Plelauff, Juillet 2020.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Green For All's "Dig In" at Riverside Valley Community Garden with actor Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green For All , Environmental Protection Agency

Conservation Scientist

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, for tour of Virgin Islands National Park and other natural and developed sites, discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials, and press conference at the National Park Service Dock Visitor Center concerning acquisition of land for new school construction

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, 30 miles northeast of Missoula, managed in part by the University of Montana

Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, MS, 02/20/2008 -- During the first Alternative Housing Pilot Program Grantee Conference, attendees toured a Mississippi Cottage. The conference lasted two days and included representatives from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas' AHPP programs. Jennifer Smits/FEMA

Flooding - Jacksonville, N. C. , October 7, 2010 A television news crew videos while FEMA and State inspectors conduct a Preliminary Damage Assessment on a residence damaged by flooding caused by Tropical Storm Nichole, where some areas received over 20 inches of rain. FEMA photo/Tim Burkitt photographer... Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. official Dan Tangherlini, Secretary Gale Norton, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection Agency's Christine Todd Whitman, National Park Service's Fran Mainella, River Terrace advocate Wanda Carter

Activities at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Celebrating the Great Outdoors fundraising event, co-hosted by ESPN Outdoors, on New York City's Randall's Island

Visit of Secretary Gale Norton to Stockton, California for Take Pride in America school grounds beautification event at Cleveland Elementary School

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stops at sites in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest and the Lolo National Forest

USA, CA, Pismo Beach. Educational programs provided by volunteers at Pismo Beach Monarch Groves- migratory wintering spot

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, where he joined Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Idaho Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch, and other officials for meetings, tours of the facility and surrounding area, and press conference on fire season preparations

Flots Bleus campsite near the Dune du Pilat located in the town of Teste de Buch destroyed by the fire of July 2022

Recycle bins in the Red Centre, Australia

Visit of Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and aides to Lorimer Park, near Norristown, Pennsylvania, for Earth Day event in conjunction with representatives of the coldwater fisheries conservation, protection, restoration organization, Trout Unlimited

Ed Begley Jr. (noted actor and environmentalist) and his wife Rachelle Carson-Begley are building their new home under LEED Platinum Certified standards in an attempt to become one of North America's greenest, most sustainable home. It is also being filmed for their web series ""On Begley Street."" Studio City, California, US

Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and other Interior officials and staff joining Take Pride in America volunteers for cleanup event, along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, organized by the environmental action group, Living Lands and Waters

Filming for the USFWS and Pangolin Film's effort to create awareness surrounding the dangers of the spreading non-native nutria populations in the northwest region. Subjects: Invasive species; Interpretation; Photography; Mammals; Rodents; Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Education. Location: Oregon.

Office of Water - Run Off Capture , Environmental Protection Agency

Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and other Interior officials and staff joining Take Pride in America volunteers for cleanup event, along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, organized by the environmental action group, Living Lands and Waters

Photograph, from coverage of National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Celebrating the Great Outdoors fundraising event on New York City's Randall's Island, selected for use in preparation of Department of Interior video on tenure of departing Secretary Gale Norton

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, for tour of Virgin Islands National Park and other natural and developed sites, discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials, and press conference at the National Park Service Dock Visitor Center concerning acquisition of land for new school construction

Material from Vice Admiral Allen - Principal Federal Official - 26-HK-370-7. File Unit includes photographs of Admrial Allen on CNN and Visits by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton among others. Hurricane Katrina

Secretary Gale Norton at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Celebrating the Great Outdoors fundraising event, co-hosted by ESPN Outdoors, on New York City's Randall's Island

Madrid, October 8, 2013. Urban garden in University City. Photo: Angel Navarrete ..... Archdc ..... Angel Navarrete.

France, Brittany, Dinan on 2020-09-15. The citizen's movement of the shared gardens proposes to the inhabitants to produce themselves fruits and vegetables in urban agriculture. The objective is not only productive, but also has a real social and pedagogical interest, and it is spreading all over the world, not only in big cities, as here in Dinan, a small town of 11,000 inhabitants in Brittany, documented through a garden of fruit trees in the heart of the priority district of Cite Lecuyer.Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Dinan le 2020-09-15. Le mouvement citoyen des jardins partages propose aux habitants de produire eux-memes des fruits et legumes en agriculture urbaine. Par ailleurs, l'objectif n'est pas uniquement productif car, derrière ce mouvement, on retrouve un réel interet social et pédagogique.Il s'etend aujourd'hui dans le monde entier et pas uniquement dans les grandes villes comme ici, à Dinan, une petite commune de 11000 habitants en Bretagne documente a

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, where he toured, met with Yosemite Superintendent Mike Toillefson and other Yosemite staff, and joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.

ESAT of the ADAGES association. Work Assistance Establishment and Services. Disabled workers during green space maintenance workshops.

Office of the Administrator - Portland and Seattle , Environmental Protection Agency

Madrid 03-13-2005 Images of the "Forest of the Absent" in the Retiro Park in Madrid photo Jaime Garcia Archdc.

Events at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California, marking federal budget commitment to National Park system maintenance, with appearance by Secretary Gale Norton, shown here, second from front on left side of table, joining National Park Service staff

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, for tour of Virgin Islands National Park and other natural and developed sites, discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials, and press conference at the National Park Service Dock Visitor Center concerning acquisition of land for new school construction

The Mountain Ranch Resource Center Volunteers sort and organize thousands of items donated to the residents that were affected by recent catastrophic wildfires. The Resource Center and the volunteer organizations received an abundance of goods and resources from donors, which will be distributed to those disaster survivors in need by pickup truck. Adam DuBrowa FEMA. California Valley Fire and Butte Fire. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Commerce City, Colorado to participate in ceremonies marking the expansion of the Refuge through transfer of more than 7,000 acres of land from the U.S. Army to the Fish and Widlife Service. Joining Secretary Kempthorne at the events were Colorado Governor Bill Owens, members of Colorado's Congressional delegation, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Tad Davis, and representatives from the Fish and Wildlife Service, Shell Oil Company, and other organizations.

Critical Incident Stress Management - Louisiana - 26-HK-139-77. Hurricane Katrina

Groundbreaking for Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, Washington, D.C., with, left to right, D.C. official Dan Tangherlini, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, Secretary Gale Norton, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Environmental Protection's Christine Todd Whitman, Park Service's Fran Mainella, activist Wanda Carter

FEMA PIO with Television media.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Administrator - Portland and Seattle , Environmental Protection Agency

Tours and related events, for Department of Interior senior officials and their spouses, at Interior headquarters building, Washington Monument, and other sites around National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, for a speech on exploration of alternative energy sources, and for a tour of the aquarium and the Scripps Institution environs

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, for tour of Virgin Islands National Park and other natural and developed sites, discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials, and press conference at the National Park Service Dock Visitor Center concerning acquisition of land for new school construction

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