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On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
To come in and say now that a main highway or a parkway in Portland or a pick your street in any of those 232 cities in Oregon is now a salmon habitat is ridiculous.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio criticizes the designation of urban areas as salmon habitats.

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