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Greg Walden: “This is so serious to those counties. We have got to get this done. I came from Lane County, I was a commissioner in the…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2007
This is so serious to those counties. We have got to get this done. I came from Lane County, I was a commissioner in the early 1980s, when we had a drop off in timber revenues due to markets and not as catastrophic as this. And yet at that time, in a county this size, and we have to relate this to our colleagues back here, they cannot understand how big our districts are, a county which is just one of my counties, the size of the State of Connecticut had no rural law enforcement patrols outside of contract deputies and a couple of small communities, a county the size of the State of Connecticut. And we are headed back to that point in many counties in the western United States.
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon
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Discussing the impact of declining timber revenues on rural law enforcement in western U.S. counties.

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