U.S. Department of the Interior Strategic Plan for FY 2014-2018

The U.S. Department of the Interior Strategic Plan for FY 2014-2018 is a national multi-sectoral strategic plan. Its main objective is to provide the framework for the programs and activities that are performed by 10 bureaus and multiple offices, and take place at approximately 2,400 locations throughout the Nation.
More specifically, it aims to protect America’s Landscapes; improve land and water health by managing wetlands, uplands, and riparian areas; sustain fish, wildlife, and plant species; manage wildland fire for landscape resiliency, strengthen the ability of communities to protect against fire, and provide for public and firefighter safety in wildfire response; protect America’s cultural and heritage resources; protect cultural and historical assets and related resources; enhance recreation and visitor experience; enhance the enjoyment and appreciation of our natural and cultural heritage; meet our trust, treaty, and other responsibilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives; protect reserved Indian treaty and subsistence rights; fulfill fiduciary trust; improve the quality of life in tribal and native communities; support self-governance and self-determination; create economic opportunity; strengthen Indian education; make communities safer; empower insular communities; improve quality of life; create economic opportunity; promote efficient and effective governance; secure America’s energy resources; ensure environmental compliance and safety of energy development activities; develop renewable energy potential; manage conventional energy development; account for energy revenue; sustainably manage timber, forage, and non-energy minerals; manage timber and forest product resources; provide for sustainable forage and grazing; manage non-energy mineral development; create new, systemic opportunities for outdoor play; develop or enhance outdoor recreation partnerships that provide outdoor play; provide educational opportunities; reach the Nation’s K-12 population; provide volunteers on public lands; enable the ability to engage more young volunteers; develop the next generation of lifelong conservation stewards and ensure our own skilled and diverse workforce pipeline; provide conservation work and training opportunities for young people; manage water and watersheds for the 21st century; improve reliability of water delivery; better ensure the future of watersheds against the impacts of climate change; extend water supplies through conservation; expand water conservation capabilities; availability of water to tribal communities; protect tribal water rights; improve infrastructure and operational efficiency of tribal water facilities; provide shared landscape-level management and planning tools; ensure the use of landscape-level capabilities and mitigation actions; provide science to understand, model and predict ecosystem, climate and land use change; identify and predict ecosystem changes at targeted and landscape-levels (biota, land cover, and Earth and ocean systems); assess and forecast climate change and its effects; provide scientific data to protect, instruct, and inform communities; monitor and assess natural hazard risk and resilience; provide environmental health to guide decisionmaking; provide water and land data to customers; monitor and assess water availability and quality; generate geologic maps; and assess national and international energy and mineral resources.