Who is Ryan Zinke? To start off, he’s the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, and a former Navy Seal commander. Zinke is helming the Department of the Interior, and plans to get rid of hundreds of thousands of acres of national parks.<br /><br />Raised in the small town of Whitefish Montana, Zinke was a star athlete, which got him a scholarship to the University of Oregon. He was in the Navy for 23 years — and while he was there he expensed airfare home to the house he was building to retire in — a.k.a. committed fraud. he wasn’t allowed back in his Seal team but only had to reimburse taxpayers around $200. He also may have been involved in allocating a company called Whitefish Energy $300,000,000 to restore power in Puerto Rico, despite them only having two employees.<br /><br />He's also shrinking the national parks he’s supposed to be bettering. He’s a huge friend of the energy industry and has pushed to open public land for energy development. On the chopping block is Utah’s “Bear’s Ears" — with millions of acres of public land. The president has already reversed the Obama-era ruling to preserve the park and plans to reduce it in size by 80%. <br />
