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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 05 > Bush's proposal would extend timber dollars

Bush's proposal would extend timber dollars

However, payments would drop over 3 years

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
February 5, 2008

WASHINGTON — In what U.S. Rep. Greg Walden called “sort of OK news,” President Bush’s 2009 budget proposal released Monday phases out county timber payments over the next three years — at less than a quarter of the program’s current....

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