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On the recordMarch 7, 2011
We have had much more intense forest fires over the past few years in my neck of the woods specifically because of the failure of the Forest Service to provide the sound forest management practices that were employed in 1980 when we were harvesting 12 billion board-feet a year out of the forests of this country.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock blames forest fires on poor forest management by the Forest Service.

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