| National Park Service |
| Fish and Wildlife |
| Bureau of Land Management |
| Office of Surface Mining |
| Minerals Management Service |
| US Geological Survey |
| Bureau of Reclamation |
important note - I've noticed a tendency to hang on some pages when using the Netscape browser. This is because some javascript based links are still going to dead DOI sites instead of the backup. Turn off javascript or use a different browser to get past the problem.
After waiting two months now for Gale Norton and the rest of the Department of Interior to figure out how to do it, I decided to spend an afternoon getting this mirror site up and running, using the most recently available archives of Department of Interior web pages. I had an account on Geocities, and the code isn't that tough.
Like I said, it ain't rocket science. The reason it isn't is simple. There are some folks at the Wayback Machine in San Francisco who have been creating a historical archive of web pages since 1996. That includes the Department of Interior web site, of course.
Databases, search engines, and forms that access cgi scripts won't work. Anything that was password protected wasn't copied. In other words, the stuff that the judge quite reasonably says that you shouldn't get access to in order to protect the security of Indian Trust data, plus a bit more.
Since search engines don't work, sometimes it is hard to find something. Sometimes an archival copy of a particular page might not exist. If you think you know the URL of the page you're looking for on the original DOI site, go to the Wayback search page and enter the URL. If you spelled it right / remembered it right, they'll give you a choice among the copies of that page which they made dating back to 1996. If you don't remember or never knew the page URL, go to Google or Altavista and try a search. Once you think you have identified what you're looking for, plug that URL into Wayback.
First rule of management job security is to never hire anyone who is smarter than you are. Dubya is the boss right now. Need I say more?
Don't blame the fine DOI professional staff - they report to the political appointees whom we are all stuck with for three more years.
Nope. The judge ordered the DOI to disconnect anything from the Internet that might give access to Indian Trust data. They did, with a vengeance. They also shut down any other DOI site that a citizen might use to obtain the information needed to criticize their policies. I'm not linking to any DOI site. I'm linking to archived copies of DOI sites which don't have any connectivity to DOI Indian Trust data. Even if anyone other than the DOI was covered by the judge's order, this site doesn't violate it. Nor does it violate copyright law. The original sites were government documents, and therefore not copyrighted at all, so the Wayback Machine was free to copy them. I can then link to them, since "hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act," ruled U.S. District Judge Harry Hupp. "This is analogous to using a library's card index to get reference to particular items, albeit faster and more efficiently."
Nope. I happen to be a Sierra Club activist. I also happen to belong to ACM, AITP, and a host of other organizations. In doing this page though, I'm just a private individual annoyed at Gale Norton's ineptitude who decided to do something to help private individuals find the information that her agency is trying to hide. The fact that I have provided a link to a particular site on this page should not imply that the folks at that site endorse this page, any more than the fact that I have provided links to DOI sites on this page imply that I endorse DOI actions.
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