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Frank Riggs: “Is it not a fact that some of our friends concerned about so-called below costs sales and concerned about taxpayer…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
Is it not a fact that some of our friends concerned about so-called below costs sales and concerned about taxpayer subsidies are the same people who are opposed to allowing any kind of expedited logging on our forest lands, including the salvage harvesting of dead, dying and diseased trees?
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Frank Riggs
California

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Discussing logging practices and subsidies related to forest management.

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