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Greg Walden: “Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land, and for those who use it for other…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2007
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land, and for those who use it for other purposes. Unfortunately there are a number of critical issues that impact the health and the economic stability of the forests in our region. As many have mentioned this evening, since 1908 the counties that host forest lands from which timber is cut receive a share from the Federal Government of the timber receipts, about 25 percent. This is such important money for these counties and schools, used to fund road improvements, fire stations, police protection. And yet as the timber sales have declined, funding received by the counties and schools have also declined.
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon
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Discussing the importance of forest health and timber receipts for local economies.

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