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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMarch 20, 2003
The Forest Service is not a good neighbor, and when you have got an infestation of 30,000 or 40,000 acres of leafy spurge and you do not control them, what happens is, everyone else who is on the periphery of the Forest Service land is affected by it.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota
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Accusation against the Forest Service for inadequate weed control.

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