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On the recordMay 25, 2021
There is hundreds of miles of old timber roads in our national forests that often are eroding and creating silt in the streams, which really affects our salmon runs.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights the issue of eroding timber roads affecting salmon.

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