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Ryan Zinke (2017)

Ryan Keith Zinke (* 1. November 1961 in Bozeman , Montana ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ). He was Secretary of the Interior of the United States in the Trump Cabinet from March 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018 . Until then, he had been a member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Montana from January 2015 .

Career

In 1980 Ryan Zinke graduated from Whitefish High School in Montana and attended the University of Oregon at Eugene until 1984 . He later studied in San Diego at the National University and the University of San Diego . Between 1985 and 2008 he served as Navy SEAL and achieved the rank of Commander with these . Between 1991 and 1993 he also served in the SEAL Team Six . He then worked in the private sector as the CEO of a consulting firm.

politics

Zinke served in the Montana Senate between 2009 and 2012 . In 2012 he unsuccessfully applied for the Republican nomination for the office of lieutenant governor of his state.

In the 2014 House of Representatives election , zinc was elected to Congress for the at-large congressional constituency of Montanas, where he succeeded Steve Daines on January 3, 2015 . Zinke received 55 percent of the vote, his Democratic rival John Lewis 40 percent. Zinke was confirmed in office in the November 2016 election, making him a member of the 115th Congress of the United States, which met for the first time on January 3, 2017 .

On December 15, 2016, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated Zinke for the post of Home Secretary. On March 1, 2017, the United States Senate confirmed Zinke by 68 votes to 31, who subsequently resigned from Congress and took office on the same day.

Trophy hunting

Ryan Zinke out hunting (Official Photo of the United States Department of the Interior)

On November 16, 2017, it was announced that President Trump, on the advice of Zinke, wanted to lift the US ban on elephant ivory imports. Zinke, himself a passionate trophy hunter, justified himself to critics by saying that he had his fondest childhood memories with his father hunting and that he was therefore anxious to promote hunting for American families. A month earlier, the import ban on lion trophies in the USA was lifted without a press release .

Trump and Zinke received significant criticism for the decision as the population of African elephants is already threatened by industrial poaching and poachers kill around 30,000 animals each year. Critics feared that the lifting of the import ban would trigger a wave of American trophy hunters and that the decision would be a severe blow to the survival of the elephant species. Two days later, President Trump withdrew the decision on the grounds that he wanted to find out more. In October 2018, Trump lifted the import ban on elephant trophies entirely, without a press release.

Of the so-called Big Five of big game hunting in 2014 alone, before the introduction of the ban by President Obama, 671 elephants, 741 lions, 311 leopards, 1412 Cape buffalo and 32 rhinos were killed by American trophy hunters and transferred to the USA.

Management of protected areas for nature

On April 26, 2017, President Trump ordered the Ministry of the Interior with Executive Order 13792 to review the area of ​​27 National Monuments , which were designated after January 1, 1996 and are at least 100,000 hectares in size. On August 24, 2017, Zinke submitted the final report on Executive Order 13792 . The final report called for land reductions in the Bears Ears National Monument , Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument , Gold Butte National Monument , Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument . In addition, more traditional human uses such as grazing, logging, coal mining and commercial fishing are to be allowed within the protected areas in all the National Monuments examined, as presidents have gone too far in recent decades to restrict commercial activities in protected areas. This report also suggested to check whether to Camp Nelson , a training camp for African-Americans in the American Civil War , Medgar Evers Home and Badgers Two Medicine with an area size of 130,000 acres in the Lewis and Clark National Forest should be designated as a national monument. The area reduction of the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by President Trump took place on December 4, 2017. The area of ​​the Bears Ears National Monument alone increased by 85 percent from 1,351,849 acres (547,074 hectares) to 201,876 acres ( 81,696 ha). The right to reduce the area will be clarified in court. Lawsuits against this reduction have been filed by local Indian tribes, the outdoor clothing company Patagonia, and various nature and environmental groups.

The land reduction was seen as a victory for oil and mining companies with the Republican Party over environmentalists and Indian tribes. In the area of ​​land reduction, there are deposits of crude oil , uranium and hard coal . In US history, sixteen National Monuments have been reduced in area eighteen times by US presidents. There had been no reduction in area since 1962. Trump's reduction in the area of ​​the two National Monuments is the largest reduction in US history.

Funding cuts for zinc authorities

As Home Secretary, Zinke defended President Trump's proposal for a $ 1.6 billion budget cut for Home Office agencies in 2018. 400 million should be canceled for the national parks and other protected areas. 370 million should the Bureau of Indian Affairs u. a. also lose for education and funding programs. $ 163 million was earmarked for cuts to the United States Geological Survey . Zince's proposed budget would also cut the Land and Water Conservation Fund from $ 425 million in 2018 to $ 8 million. The Land and Water Conservation Fund provides federal, state and local governments with money to purchase land and water rights for nature conservation purposes. Private associations can also receive grants.

Forest fire and climate change

Zinke visited California in August 2018, where many forests were on fire or on fire . California Governor Jerry Brown called the situation the "new normal" because the dry and hot weather prolongs the fire season. Zinke, on the other hand, claimed that climate change had nothing to do with the frequency and duration of the fires. Environmental activists are to blame for the forest fires because they are against logging in the affected areas. However, Zinke later stated that climate change was contributing to the fires.

resignation

An investigation was underway against Zinke into a property development project in Zinkes hometown Whitefish between a Stiftung Zinke and Halliburton President David Lesar . Work by a Home Office division on a casino project to change the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in favor of the project also raised questions.

Since January 2019, Zinke has been the managing director of Artillery One , a cryptocurrency investment company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles S. Johnson: Zinke releases some Navy records on SEAL career; Dems seek more. In: Billings Gazette , August 9, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Roy Carter: Review of Zinke's Navy record comes out clean. In: Bozeman Daily Chronicle , September 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ Zinke Wins US House Race. In: Flathead Beacon , November 4, 2014 (English).
  4. ^ President-Elect Donald J. Trump Intends to Nominate US Congressman Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. In: GreatAgain.gov , December 15, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ Senate confirms Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. In: Zeit Online , March 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Timothy Cama: Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies , The Hill, November 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Wayne Pacelle: After targeting elephants, Interior Department puts African lions in the crosshairs , A Humane Nation, November 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ Eli Stokols: Trump delays policy allowing big game trophy body parts to be imported to US , The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ Emily Tillett: Trump reverses Obama-era ban on import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe , CBS NEWS, November 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ Ashley Hoffman: People on Twitter Are Upset That President Trump Lifted an Elephant Trophy Ban , Time, November 16, 2017
  11. ↑ Trump lifts the import ban on elephant trophies. Sunday Express, October 21, 2018
  12. ↑ Wayne Pacelle: Ending the Madness of International Trophy Hunting of Rare Animals , A Humane Nation, September 30, 2015.
  13. ↑ Executive Order 13792 of April 26, 2017 Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
  14. ↑ Final Report Summarizing findings of the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
  15. ↑ Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump Washington Post, September 17, 2017
  16. ↑ Josh Siegel: Trump announces he will shrink Bears Ears, Grand Staircase monuments in Utah . Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  17. ^ New York Times: Patagonia, REI and Other Outdoor Retailers Protest Trump's Decision to Shrink Utah Monuments , January 13, 2018
  18. ↑ Keith Schneider, Trump dramatically shrinks two national monuments in Utah, assailing rule by 'distant bureaucrats' , Los Angeles Times (December 7, 2017).
  19. ↑ Areas cut out of Utah monuments are rich in oil, coal, uranium . In: The Washington Post , December 7, 2017. Archived from the original on January 2, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2018. 
  20. ↑ Juliet Eilperin: Uranium firm urged Trump officials to shrink Bears Ears National Monument . In: The Washington Post , December 8, 2017. Archived from the original on January 13, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018. 
  21. ^ "Antiquities Act 1906-2006: Maps, facts and figures" . nps.gov . US National Park Service list of designations, area enlargements and reductions.
  22. ↑ Zinke defends huge job cuts at Interior
  23. ↑ spiegel.de August 14, 2018: US Secretary of the Interior blames environmental activists for forest fires
  24. ↑ Climate Has a Role in Wildfires? No. Wait, yes.
  25. ^ Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to leave Trump administration at the end of the year
  26. ↑ Ryan Zinke says he's now trying to make a cryptocurrency company “great again”
personal data
SURNAME Prong, Ryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinke, Ryan Keith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bozeman , Montana