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On the recordMarch 25, 2014
if we are going to go forward on resource management plans, which require significant additional resources, and if the budget is cut, and if the current projects in the forest are greatly underfunded as it is, doesn't this mean just further lack of management and more problems for the O&C lands?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley questions the impact of budget cuts on forest management.

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