Doug Burgum
Doug Burgum is an American businessman and politician serving as the 55th United States Secretary of the Interior under President Donald Trump, a role he assumed in February 2025. He previously served as the 33rd governor of North Dakota from 2016 to 2024. Before entering politics, he built and sold Great Plains Software to Microsoft for $1.1 billion and co-founded the venture capital firm Arthur Ventures. As Interior Secretary, he has promoted expanded natural resource extraction on federal lands and rolled back Endangered Species Act protections, while also expressing support for de-extinction technologies.
“Burgum has drawn an explicit link between de-extinction rhetoric and weakening the case for the Endangered Species Act — creating a political tension against Colossal's simultaneous MOU with Interior and US Fish and Wildlife Service.”
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