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On the recordJune 25, 2002
my recollection is that we had some of the people when we had the horrible cycle of fires that the gentleman and I are aware of in the Pacific Northwest, we heard the same drum beat; that somehow this was the problem, that we did not aggressively log the forest. My recollection is that during that period of time the forests that had the greatest loss were the ones that were the more intensely logged.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing forest management and fire cycles in the Pacific Northwest.

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