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Don Young: “Well, those restrictions were put in in 2000, and the pups are increasing significantly, yet you shut that area down.…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2011
Well, those restrictions were put in in 2000, and the pups are increasing significantly, yet you shut that area down. What grounds? Where is the science behind that?
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young challenges the scientific basis for shutting down areas despite increasing pup populations.

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