04/08/2014
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"Southeast Alaska is now and has historically been a resource dependent economy directly tied to the Federal land that dominates it."
"I think in your initial comments you mentioned that it's your sense that within the Forest Service currently there is perhaps too much focus on restoration rather than on the economy itself."
"Obviously it's of great importance to all of us that we wrestle with the O and C issue."
"I firmly believe that the Klamath River Basin will serve as a model of what can be accomplished when communities historically divided by competing interests recognize the most important interest of al..."