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Raúl Grijalva: Too often we fight over oil and gas development, logging, mining, when the real economic engine fueling many communities…

On the recordMay 6, 2013
Too often we fight over oil and gas development, logging, mining, when the real economic engine fueling many communities is the recreation economy.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

Editor's note · Context

Grijalva highlights the importance of the recreation economy over traditional resource extraction.

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