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Bruce Westerman: Those are the kinds of activities that are not going to make forests resilient. This is going to worsen the problem.

On the recordSeptember 26, 2017
Those are the kinds of activities that are not going to make forests resilient. This is going to worsen the problem.
Said by
Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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Westerman criticizes logging practices that harm forest resilience.

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