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Jeff Merkley: “Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China.”

On the recordJune 6, 2017
Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights reliance on public timber due to private exports.

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