The Department of the Interior will start taking “actions to review and, where appropriate, revise all withdrawn public lands,” like national monuments.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered federal officials to review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.

New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and other resources.

In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to mining or drilling.

In a move anticipated by conservationists, the new head of the nation’s Interior Department has called for the review of national monuments and mining protections issued under past presidential administrations.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a secretarial order calling for the review and possible revision of all national monuments and mineral withdrawals established by past U.S.