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:: Friday, October 15, 2004 ::
White House bigwigs hail local forest-health moves By Barney Lerten, Bend.com, OR
Also along for the hour-long tour of areas where thinning has and has not (yet) occurred were some more familiar faces, from Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., to Regional Forester Linda Goodman, Bend Mayor Oran Teater and Rick Dice, owner of PatRick Environmental, a Redmond firm whose work has shifted over the years from forest management to contract firefighting, as the courts and environmentalists barred logging and, in their view, brought on the fires, due to lack of proper forest management. But the most outspoken of the bunch was Michael Draper, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America’s Western Division.
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