Editor's Opinion
It must be frustrating to work for the Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service. In one decade, your marching orders come from greedy "get-out-the-cut" western congressmen. In another decade, your orders emanate from fat cat environmentalists and their sympathizers within the government who hold an opposing but no less unscrupulous agenda of "don't-allow-any-cut."
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