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On the recordApril 23, 2013
With the changing or the more extensive droughts, we're going to see that this problem of accumulated fuels becomes of more and more dreaded effect.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley emphasizes the growing threat of accumulated fuels due to drought.

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