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On the recordMay 13, 2012
A sharp decline in forest management has left these forests in an extremely unnatural and unhealthy state, the result of which has been a feeding frenzy for the beetles but only dead trees for the rest of us.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah

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Bishop criticizes poor forest management leading to beetle infestations.

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