A lawsuit was filed Wednesday to obtain Interior Department records and communications pertaining to Secretary Ryan Zinke's review of 27 national monuments established since 1996. The filing, by the Center for Biological Diversity, claims the department is unlawfully withholding those documents.

A statistical analysis of comments made on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's charge to review national monuments to determine if some are too big or shouldn't be monuments indicates that 98 percent of the comments are in support of leaving the monuments as they are, or even enlarging them.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was so impressed with Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument that he will ask Congress to designate it as a national park, according to Lucas St. Clair.

Those who read tea leaves likely are staring at hot swirling water as they try to predict how the Trump administration will come down on the fate of Bears Ears, Katahdin Woods and Waters, and 25 other national monuments. Conservationists maintain the president lacks authority to abolish monuments, while conservatives hope for drastic action by President Trump.