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May 24, 2013

Wyden has plan to boost logging

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Sen. Ron Wyden is zeroing in on his plan for boosting logging on federal lands in Western Oregon and helping rural counties beset by money problems.

The Oregon Democrat announced Thursday a more specific framework for legislation to address complaints that the so-called O&C lands have not been turning out the level of money for timber counties they did before logging was cut back to protect the northern spotted owl and salmon from extinction.


 
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