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Jim Bunn: “We hear a lot of talk about logging without laws. I want to show an example of two sales in my district that took place…”

On the recordJune 20, 1996
We hear a lot of talk about logging without laws. I want to show an example of two sales in my district that took place as a result of this law. There are a lot of laws. Here are contracts with the studies that went into these sales. We are not logging without laws. We are logging before the logs rot.
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Jim Bunn
Republican · Oregon

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Discussing logging practices and regulations in his district.

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