I just have to make a comment as well about the concept of these Federal lands being so productive to employment. The gentleman who went to the university, as I recall, as apparently been a long time going back through eastern Oregon and seeing mill after mill close, unemployment rates in some counties like Grant County in Oregon hit upwards of 20 percent because of the way the forests are being mismanaged today.
Discussing the impact of federal land management on employment in Oregon.
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