MEDFORD, Ore. — Since undertaking a review of Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke hasn’t gotten a satisfactory answer to a key question.
“How were the boundaries made? Nobody knows how the boundaries were made,” Zinke said during a July 15 visit to the monument.
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