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Remote Alaskan villages, including King Cove, rely on air travel for access to major hospitals. (Associated Press/File)

Ryan Zinke revives Alaska’s King Cove road project killed under Obama

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Land swap for school trust land in Bears Ears on hold

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell speaks at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, after getting her last wildfire update from managers who oversee the nation's firefighting resources Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. Jewell says her 2015 secretarial order for a new wildfire-fighting plan to protect a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West that supports cattle ranching and is home to imperiled sage grouse will likely continue after the Obama administration ends. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

Western US sagebrush defense plan will endure, official says

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, second from right, tours Acoma Pueblo, a nearly thousand-year-old village that's situated atop a New Mexico mesa, with tribal leaders on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Jewell says the visit to Acoma Pueblo is expected to be her last to a reservation as secretary of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)

Interior Secretary Jewell makes final Indian Country visit

By MARY HUDETZ - Associated Press

A private sign welcomes visitors to the Diamond Valley, part of the Harney Basin in southeast Oregon, in mid-December 2015. The valley is home to large cattle ranches that rely on both private and public land for grazing. The prosecution of Dwight and Steven Hammond for burning public lands has brought fresh focus to the debate over how federal land is managed. (Les Zaitz/The Oregonian via AP)

Oregon standoff acquittal sparks fears of new land disputes

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

A private sign welcomes visitors to the Diamond Valley, part of the Harney Basin in southeast Oregon, in mid-December 2015. The valley is home to large cattle ranches that rely on both private and public land for grazing. The prosecution of Dwight and Steven Hammond for burning public lands has brought fresh focus to the debate over how federal land is managed. (Les Zaitz/The Oregonian via AP)

Acquittal raises fears that militant groups could get bolder

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Helena woman sues Interior Department over sexual assault

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For the Lincoln Memorial, the National Park Service has deferred about $20 million in maintenance. In fiscal 2015, Congress' allocated maintenance budget for the landmark was $490,000. (Ryan McDermott/The Washington Times)

Lincoln Memorial to be renovated

By Ryan M. McDermott - The Washington Times

Interior Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, before the House Natural Resources Oversight Committee hearing on the Animas River Spill in Colorado. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sally Jewell, Interior Secretary, unaware of any punishments for EPA toxic mine spill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell speaks in Anchorage, Alaska, on Feb. 17, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Sally Jewell rebuffs Colorado pleas to appeal Colowyo coal mine decision

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This March 1, 2010 photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a bistate distinct population of the greater sage grouse, rear, as he struts for a female at a lek, or mating ground, near Bridgeport, Calif. A bird found only in California and Nevada no longer faces the threat of extinction and doesn't require federal protection, officials said just months before a more-sweeping decision is due on whether to declare other sage grouse threatened or endangered in 11 Western states. (Jeannie Stafford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Sally Jewell, interior secretary, leaves bi-state Mono Basin sage grouse off Endangered Species List

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This April 2014 photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a Gunnison sage grouse with tail feathers fanned near Gunnison, Colo. U.S. officials say they will decide next year whether the wide-ranging Western bird species needs protections even though Congress has blocked such protections from going into effect. That means wildlife officials could determine the greater sage grouse is heading toward possible extinction, but they would be unable to intervene under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Dave Showalter, File)

Protections blocked, but sage grouse work goes on

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

FILE - This June 18, 2009 file photo shows cows grazing in Rock County, Neb. Compared to the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases connected to global warming per calorie, puts out six times as much nitrogen for water pollution, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Bill Wolf, File)

Group wants environmental reviews ahead of grazing

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

Blackfeet urge government to cancel energy leases

By Matt Volz - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell speaks before a ceremonial signing of a settlement with the Navajo Nation Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, in Window Rock, Ariz. in the Navajo Nation. In the settlement the Navajo Nation will receive $554 million from the federal government over mismanagement of tribal resources. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Interior secretary pushes for Congress to act

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

FILE --This April 15, 2008 file photo shows a male sage grouse performing his &quot;strut&quot; near Rawlins, Wyo. The federal government paid $236 million to landowners in 11 states to preserve sage grouse habitat amid a debate over whether the bird should be listed as an endangered species, potentially hindering energy development and ranching. The Casper Star-Tribune reported Wednesday, April 30, 2014, that the money was paid for conservation efforts on nearly 6,000 square miles, mostly in the West, over a four-year period. (AP Photo/Rawlins Daily Times, Jerret Raffety, File)

Sage grouse efforts target the spread of junipers

By LACEY JARRELL - Associated Press

Herbert hopeful for Utah public lands deal

By MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, left, tours the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Townsend, Georgia. Despite her actively backing renewal of a conservation fund, experts maintain her efforts may not be legally considered as lobbying. (associated press)

Lax laws allow Cabinet members to lobby

By Chloe Johnson - The Washington Times

New York City Councilman Corey Johnson, left, and U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, right, applaud during a press conference outside The Stonewall Inn to announce a national initiative for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans on Friday May 30, 2014 in New York. Jewel said the National Park Service will begin marking places of significance for LGBT Americans to mark their contributions to state and U.S. history. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Remote town sues feds over blocked road project

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A neon sign fills the window of The Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell plans to announce the initiative on Friday at New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A place in history for gay, transgender Americans

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press