09/25/2017
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"the parks were a symbol of the government but it was a symbol that people had taken for granted"
"While harvesting is obviously an integral part of forest management, just for the record, the Forest Service was actually initially established to protect clean sources of water."
"we are not going to create the sacrificial areas on the Mall, not with how important it is"
"But I think there is a consensus growing that this has to be dealt with, and it cannot be dealt with as we have been budgeting in the past."