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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 20, 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 discusses the dependency of mills on public timber resources.

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