U.S. Department of the Interior's Climate Change Program

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has an obligation to work with its partners to address climate change and other landscape scale impacts on America's natural and cultural resources. Secretary Salazar signed Secretarial Order 3289 on September 14, 2009, and amended it February 22, 2010, titled, "Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on America's Water, Land, and Other Natural and Cultural Resources." The document coordinated the application of scientific tools to increase understanding of climate change and determine an effective response to its impact on tribes and on land, water, ocean, fish and wildlife, and cultural heritage resources managed by DOI.