President-elect Donald Trump [has tapped] North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum [R] to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing roughly 500 million acres of federal land and more than a billion acres offshore that will be key to his plans to boost U.S. oil and gas production. … If approved by the Senate, Burgum would steward hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned lands and waters … Interior also oversees dwindling water resources across the American West amid a climate-change-fueled megadrought. Interior officials last year brokered an agreement with the states along the Colorado River to conserve an unprecedented amount of their water supply in exchange for $1.2 billion in federal funding.

Other Burgum and Interior Department/Reclamation articles:

• The New York Times: Trump Picks Burgum for Interior Secretary
• The Hill: What to know about Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department
• The Associated Press: What to know North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, tapped by Trump to run the Interior Department
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Reclamation reaches major milestone on proposed operation of Central Valley Project