Ken Salazar News

New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday that she is still undecided about how to handle a burgeoning wild horse and burro population that is eating more than half the horse budget at the BLM and sparking outrage among wild horse advocates.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell sits near the summit of Old Rag Mountain last month in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Surrounded by metro area law enforcement officials, 17th Judicial District Attorney Don Quick describes Operation Sweet Leaf which involved the arrest of several individuals and confiscation of sever illegal marijuana grows in multiple counties.

It was easy to tell that Sally Jewell, who took her first trip to the Everglades Wednesday as the nation's new Secretary of the Interior, wasn't your typical Washington politician.

Sally Jewell bounded up a granite boulder near the peak of Old Rag Mountain and turned back to her hiking companion, who was staring up at the smooth rock that offered no obvious hand- or footholds.

Former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has returned to the private sector this month, but he still has a leftover campaign account with $1,288,915 in cash on hand as of March 31.