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December 14, 2006

$81M plan would help state's farms, forests

  • Gregoire said the Working Lands Initiative will study how to keep timber and farmland from becoming subdivisions and malls.
    • By DAVID AMMONS
    AP Political Writer

    OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire traveled to an Eastern Washington winery Wednesday to unveil an $81 million budget package to help protect and expand the state's farm and forest economy.

    Some unhappy Republican legislators said the Democratic governor should have traveled to a real farm and offered real solutions instead of “wrapping failed policies in shiny wrapping paper and glitzy sound bites.”


     
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