President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 14 nominated out-going North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be secretary of the interior.
Burgum, 68, a wealthy former software executive, has been married to Kathryn Helgaas since 2016. He has two sons and a daughter from his 1991–2003 marriage to Karen Stoker. One of his hobbies is hunting, according to his Instagram page.
He will lead a 70,000-employee department that manages national parks, western water conservation, more than 500 million acres of public lands, 700 million acres of subsurface minerals, and 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf, which is certain to experience significant policy shifts geared toward expanding energy development, particularly oil and gas drilling….