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Norman D. Dicks: “Here is the problem. We do not have the money in the budget to do the thinning that our foresters say we should do to…”

On the recordJune 16, 2004
Here is the problem. We do not have the money in the budget to do the thinning that our foresters say we should do to deal with this problem, and it has not been there for a number of years.
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Norman D. Dicks

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Addressing budgetary issues related to forest management and thinning.

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