WASHINGTON A week after taking over the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke inquired about redesigning the agencys flag, according to internal emails HuffPost has obtained.

The department flag is emblazoned with a bison and has gone largely unchanged for a century. The emails indicate that Zinke wanted to redesign the flags and make them bigger, so that neither his secretarial flag nor the agency flag would be smaller than the United States flag that flies atop the Interior Departments headquarters on C Street in Washington, D.C. The emails do not indicate how he wants to redesign the flag.

The emails shine more light on Zinkes revival of an obscure military flag-flying tradition . As The Washington Post reported last month, when Zinke enters the building, a security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag. When he goes home, the flag comes down.

Zinke was sworn in March 1 and arrived at his post the following morning sporting a cowboy hat and riding a horse . The flag inquiries by the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL were part of a broader revamping at Interior that included outfitting his office with a slew of taxidermied creatures and a bronze bust of his hero Teddy Roosevelt.