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Poitical Beat: Zinke Confirmed, Moves to Expand Access And Remove Lead Restrictions
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- Poitical Beat: Zinke Confirmed, Moves to Expand Access and Remove Lead Restrictions Montana’s Ryan Zinke is now the Secretary of the Interior, having been confirmed by the Senate last week.
- Zinke has been supported by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association, as well as the Outdoor Industry Association, and many other outdoor sports-associated organizations.
- Zinke famously rode a horse to his new office on his first day on the job, and in his first photo op.
- behind a carefully positioned image of Theodore Roosevelt) he signed two secretarial orders—the first to expand access on public lands, the second to overturn a ban on lead ammunition and fishing tackle on federal lands and waters.
- But the American Sportfishing Association has been lobbying for that, and a number of conservation organizations, including Ducks Unlimited and TRCP, were there to show support of Zinke and his orders.
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