U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
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FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right, visits a plaster art booth on opening day of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, with its festival theme"Indigenous Voices of the Americas," Wednesday, June 26, 2024, on the National Mall in Washington. FILE - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland stands as the Riverside Indian School color guard presents the colors Saturday, July 9, 2022, in Anadarko, Okla. FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during an event to commemorate World Wildlife Day and announced during her speech that her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Friday, March 3, 2023.
Haaland sees threats to biodiversity and climate change as twin challenges, as rising temperatures, drought and wildfires put more pressure on endangered and threatened species and their homes. Native American leaders have long considered the consultation process a check-the-box exercise for the federal government. So Haaland established a tribal advisory committee within her department, while Biden issued mandates for prioritizing and standardizing consultation across federal agencies.were created, setting aside ancestral lands across the western U.S., from the edge of the Grand Canyon to sandstone landscapes in Utah and palm-tree dotted deserts in California.
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