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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 20 > Timber counties stress their plight to governor

Timber counties stress their plight to governor

By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin
December 20, 2011

SALEM — Officials from rural counties that rely on federal timber payments met with the governor Monday to tell him face-to-face what will happen if the payments expire.

Doug Robertson, a Douglas County commissioner, called the cutbacks rural counties are facing “unprecedented in the....

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