It is my experience in the west that the greatest threat to western open lands, it is not oil and gas... it is houses.
Cynthia Lummis: “It is my experience in the west that the greatest threat to western open lands, it is not oil and gas... it is houses.”
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Lummis emphasizes that housing development threatens open lands more than oil and gas extraction.
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