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Montana governor seeks regional response to pine beetle epidemic
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009State Forester Bob Harrington and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer plan to bring the gravity of the state's pine beetle epidemic before the Western Governor's Association to "help craft a regional response," according to Schweitzer. Getting more support from USDA and Interior for prescriptive logging and increasing pressure on Congress to take action on modernizing the country's energy policy are among the goals.
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