Well, I am glad that you have raised that. I can't tell you the number of people who have said to me, you know, I am driving down the highway to go down to the Kenai, and it is just all this dead standing stuff, and there must be some use for it.
Murkowski emphasizes the potential use of dead trees along highways in Alaska.
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