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On the recordMay 15, 2013
I hope you are not misinterpreting, 'old growth timber' in Southeast is truly old growth and is dead, it has little value because we eliminated the pulp mills.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young argues that old growth timber has little value due to the closure of pulp mills.

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