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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 04 > Group fights to get timber funds

Group fights to get timber funds

Plan would extend payments to counties, but Oregon lawmakers aren’t yet in the loop

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
September 4, 2009

WASHINGTON — The grass-roots group that spearheaded the push to extend county timber payments last year has an ambitious new proposal to keep the money flowing.

But with the political winds blowing against pet federal projects, they’ve kept the idea under the radar, so far.

Earlier this summer,....

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