… was established 165 years ago today. It is the fifth in seniority among cabinet departments after State, Treasury, Defense and Justice.
Interior manages more than 500 million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of the area of the United States, including:
- 262 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management
- 95 million acres managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service
- 84 million acres managed by the National Park Service
- 56 million acres managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- 8.6 million acres managed by the Bureau of Reclamation
