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On the recordMay 25, 2021
I am disappointed that rather than building on all of the good work done over the past few years to evaluate the impact of the roadless rule on the Tongass and the Tongass dependent communities, that the administration has kind of hit the pause button on all of this.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley expresses disappointment over the administration's pause on evaluating the roadless rule's impact.

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