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On the recordApril 13, 2016
But isn't that what the environmentalists are after? They want to get back to the time when the buffalo roamed, because they say that is when the ecology was as perfectly balanced as we can imagine?
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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King discusses environmentalists' desire to return to historical ecological conditions.

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