Business Week/Bloomberg profile Sally Jewel

Many of Jewell’s formative experiences took place outside the classroom, beginning, she says, with a two-week camping trip when she was 9. “For each week we had different graduate students that taught us about nature,” she says. “The first week was about the trees and fauna of the Pacific Northwest. The second week was about meteorology and archeology and a little bit of entomology. So from a very young age I got a dose of not just being out in nature but getting to understand nature.” At 15 she made her first attempt to climb Mount Rainier, the 14,409-foot glaciated volcano visible from Seattle. In 1971, Jewell’s team found itself in a whiteout, keeping her from reaching the summit. She made it on her next try and has since topped out seven times. (She’s surely capable of an eighth: In D.C., she’s known to take the stairs to her sixth-floor office, even multiple times per day.)...more
 

The article mentions two items high on her agenda.  First is reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund so the gov't may acquire more land.  Discussions are happening in DC with R's and D's for new language.  Second is to reform oil and gas permitting so that "industry gets permission faster, while underwriting environmental impact evaluations and inspections Interior can’t afford."