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On the recordSeptember 12, 2018
It makes no sense. I am told there are statistics that--it costs four to five times as much to fight a fire as it does to do the kind of work you and I agree needs to be done on the forest.
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon

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Walden critiques the high costs of firefighting compared to forest management.

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