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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordSeptember 30, 2009
The Bureau of Land Management has already verified that over 75 percent of the public lands protected by this legislation have wilderness characteristics through its past inventories of the land.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona
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Grijalva cites BLM findings supporting the wilderness characteristics of the lands.

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