08/19/2009
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"I additionally wish to thank Senator Murkowski for her hard work over the years on SRS and forest health issues."
"I would hope that you would be willing to work with us in encouraging just that aspect."
"But both of these plans that are in process now effectively create new wilderness without the requisite congressional approval for the declarations."
"I appreciate that commitment. I think we recognize that it is a new area up there although not unexplored back in the 1980s."