Raincheck in order

Rainy weather this week prevented Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a former U.S. Navy Seal and congressman from Montana, from making his first official visit to Shenandoah National Park, where he might have made big headlines.

Zinke was to have traveled Monday morning along Skyline Drive to nearby Skyland Resort and Conference Hall to participate in an outdoor recreation industry roundtable on innovative ways to use public-private partnerships to address the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog.

So the Outdoor Industry Association on Tuesday hosted Zinke at the National Press Club, where he caused the earth to shake when telling reporters that President Trump was to sign an executive order Wednesday authorizing him to review the existence of more than two dozen national monuments “to make sure the people have a voice.”

Zinke explained that previous presidents — including George W. Bush and Barack Obama — had stretched the meaning of the Antiquities Act in creating the monuments, putting “millions of acres” off limits to development.

If not Zinke, Acting National Park Service Director Mike Reynolds was on hand in Shenandoah to hear from the outdoor industry leaders. Reynolds, who grew up in Yosemite National Park (imagine being a kid and having that for a backyard), is the third generation of his family to work for the National Park Service.